DAILY PHOTO: Backyard Buck

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A buck who came for backyard barbeque but was too late.

PROMPT: Can’t Live Without

What is one thing you can’t live without?

Mitochondria.

Autumn Yellow [Haiku]

yellow leaves
caught in Autumn light:
glowing ash in wind.

DAILY PHOTO: Weather Enters the Tañon Strait

Photograph of rain moving through the Tañon Strait, between Cebu and Negros in the Philippines.
Photograph of dark clouds moving into the Tañon Strait, between Cebu and Negros in the Philippines.

DAILY PHOTO: Souq Waqif by Night, Doha

Photograph taken in the Souq Waqif of Doha by night.
Photograph taken in the Souq Waqif of Doha by night.
Photograph taken in the Souq Waqif of Doha by night.

PROMPT: Success

How do you define success in life?

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Successful is the squirrel that gets the nuts to keep it alive through Winter, without burying a ton of useless nuts. [Fun fact: Squirrels lose track of as many as half the nuts they bury (and seldom sit and enjoy a sunset.)]

DAILY PHOTO: Orchids

Photograph of pink orchids taken at the National Orchid Garden of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Photograph of a red & white orchid taken at the National Orchid Garden of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Photograph of yellow orchids taken at the National Orchid Garden of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

PROMPT: Useless Fact

What’s a completely useless fact you love sharing?

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The gas exchange surface area of the lungs of the average adult human (if one flattened out all those balloon-like alveoli) is about the area of a tennis court.

DAILY PHOTO: Trees with Castle

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Photograph of deciduous trees in Autumn colors surrounding a subdued Bratislava Castle in Slovakia.

PROMPT: Genuinely Scared

What’s a book or movie that genuinely scared you?

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The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert