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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #148: Spots and Dots

Published on May 16, 2021May 15, 2021 by Yinglan16 Comments

This week on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #148, we’re challenged with the topic of Spots and Dots.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare: Road Trip, Yay!

Published on May 15, 2021May 14, 2021 by Yinglan15 Comments

Good morning or afternoon wherever you are, come in, sit, and join me for a chat. Coffee? Tea?

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#Writephoto – The Prince that Ran Away

Published on May 14, 2021May 13, 2021 by Yinglan10 Comments

Hands on his knees, the prince panted breathlessly. Boy, I must be more out of shape than I realized. He thought and glanced behind him proudly. He smiled. 10 miles hike, not bad for an out of shape guy.

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Friday Fictioneers: Being Claustrophobic

Published on May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 by Yinglan24 Comments

I’m not a drama-queen but I honestly can’t breathe right now. Why can’t people just move? Why do they have to stand here loitering?

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Wordless Wednesday: Bunnies!

Published on May 12, 2021May 11, 2021 by YinglanLeave a comment

Share Your World – Week of May 10, 2021

Published on May 11, 2021May 10, 2021 by Yinglan8 Comments

What do you believe but cannot prove?

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Blogging Insights – Blogging During the “Thing”

Published on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 by Yinglan10 Comments

This week on Blogging insights – hosted by Tanya at Salted Caramel – asks:

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147: Gardens

Published on May 9, 2021May 8, 2021 by Yinglan6 Comments

This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147, Amy challenged everyone with the theme of garden.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare: A Proud Parent and Road Trip Planning

Published on May 8, 2021May 7, 2021 by Yinglan9 Comments

Good morning or afternoon wherever you are, come in, sit, and join me for a chat. Coffee? Tea?

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CMMC: May Close Up or Macro

Published on May 7, 2021May 6, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

Less than one week old green bean seedling (germinated 5/3/2021), photo taken 5/6/2021

Hoping for a large strawberry harvest this year

May 2021 Carnations in my garden, still alive

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

Friday Fictioneers: Swearing Man

Published on May 6, 2021May 5, 2021 by Yinglan19 Comments

“There ain’t no reason to swear and never will.” He’d tell anyone who’d listen.

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CFFC: Real vs. Fake

Published on May 5, 2021May 4, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Wordless Wednesday: Surprise

Published on May 5, 2021May 2, 2021 by Yinglan11 Comments

Share Your World – Week of May 3, 2021

Published on May 4, 2021May 3, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

Would you rather be a super nice person and be depressed all your life, or be happy and a total *sshole? (Credit goes to Cyranny for this question, aired on one of her “Cyranny’s Quickies” posts.)

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#AtoZChallenge 2021 Reflection

Published on May 3, 2021May 2, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

It’s hard to believe April is done, isn’t it? Another month wrapped in 2021. Soon, May will be over and then June, July…and before anyone can say another word, it would be time once again to put out those pumpkins and sitting by the door anticipating trick or treaters.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146: Focusing on the Details

Published on May 2, 2021May 1, 2021 by Yinglan21 Comments

This week, for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #146, Patti has challenged everyone to focus on the details.

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#WeekendCoffeeShare: Spring Concerns

Published on May 1, 2021April 30, 2021 by Yinglan14 Comments

Good morning, come on in and have a coffee with me. Actually, let’s go out to the backyard. It’s hot outside – 78-degree-Fahrenheit (about 26-degree-Celsius). It’s actually the last warm day for the week. It’s supposed to drop back down to the 60’s tomorrow.

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#AtoZChallenge 2021 – I am Zealous

Published on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 by Yinglan4 Comments

I have been called a lot of things – mean, impatient, stubborn – but zealous isn’t one of them and upon reflecting, I have come to feel I can be zealous sometimes but a lot of the times, that zealousness got masked for impatience.

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CMMC: April Alphabet Letter E at the beginning or ending of a word

Published on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 by Yinglan6 Comments

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

#AtoZChallenge 2021 – I am Yinglan

Published on April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 by Yinglan6 Comments

Whenever someone asks, “How do you pronounce your name?”, I would often tell them, “The ‘Y’ is silent and ‘lan’ is pronounced like Lana without the ‘a’ at the end.” Some will still say it wrong and it drives me absolutely off the wall. It really isn’t that hard.

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Friday Fictioneers: Believers

Published on April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 by Yinglan15 Comments

“Do you believe in ghosts?

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#AtoZChallenge 2021 – I am Xenodochial

Published on April 28, 2021April 27, 2021 by Yinglan2 Comments

According to this website, when someone says, “Oh, you’re a xenodochial,” it means you’re someone who’s friendly to strangers. I didn’t even know this word existed. I looked it up on dictionary.com, no such word.

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