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Back Linking today to Sunday Whirl Wordle #131

A HALLOWEEN SPELL

Her vacant stare notices, as she passes the building site,
She lacks nothing a halloween witch preoccupied might,
List to her amalgam of scary preparations;
Fence, brick, gravel, trash, tentacles, everything on sight;
Spellbinding mouth will cheat the balance of gravity this night

rough curves of pumpkins...
market vendors exchange
notes for coins
--gillena cox

revisit Halloween-Pumpkins 2008


65 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

Series - Picture Post Cards 12

Ginko - Memorial Park 2

ginko - a walk for haiku inspiration

Visit also
Brisbane River Ginko

Lily Of The Valley

lily of the valley image from World Of Flowers

My grandmother was a market vendor. She sold in the Chaguanas Market - herbs and spices - chives, thyme, nutmegs, bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon; and sweet broom for clothes cupboards. She also made chocolate logs to be used for making hot chocolate drinks. She used cocoa beans, which were washed and sun dried, then crushed to remove the shells, then cloves and cinnamon sticks were added, this was then ground in a hand mill; then shaped into small chocolate logs. She also made and sold sugar cakes (not a cake but a candy made from grated coconuts).
I never called her grandmother, i called her Dee, like most other folks did; but that was not her name. A few other grownups called her Janee, but that too, was not her name.

Lily of the valley;
The memory of my grandmother Dee
Scents my mind.



in response to email questions i've edited to include -- my grandmther's name Veronica; Veronica Mitchell