“Love must be as beautiful as spring flowers and as bright as the morning sun.” ―
Thanks to all of your who have been playing my Caption Game. You always make these games I have on my blog such fun. And you have been really exercising your imaginations. That’s a good thing. Sometimes we get too settled in the way we look at things. It’s good to use our eyes and brains to see things in a new way and to open up the fun or beauty of whatever it is.
For this last picture of our game, I decided to do something a little different. My book, When the Meadow Blooms, is set to release May 3rd. But the cover is already out there on internet book sites and available for pre-order. I appreciate those of you who have pre-ordered it or are planning to read the story when it comes out. Those pre-orders can help a book get a good boost out of the starting gate. Anyway, since the story is still in the imagining stage for most readers, I thought it would be fun to let you use your imagination and come up with some captions for my cover girl. Just what is she thinking as she stands there in that meadow of flowers? What dream was she hoping for when that meadow bloomed?
The book is set in the year 1925 if that makes a difference in what you might imagine her thinking. Some of the story is set on a Kentucky farm bordered by Salt River, a small waterway that in places is shallow enough for wading. Don’t worry about trying to match your captions to the story I’ve written. Write your own story to the picture. You’ll have the chance to know what I have my characters saying soon enough. Now it’s your turn to put some words into her mind.
You had fun with the pouty face quotes. Obviously many of you had heard the same things I did when I was pouting as a little girl. I don’t know if I was the daughter that pouted the most or if I just didn’t pay attention when my sisters were called out for pouting, but it sometimes seemed like I was the only one my parents told to be careful or I was going to step on my lip. I think I might have heard that one about not wanting my face to freeze that way a time or two as well.
Lee was warned by her parents that a bird might poop on her lip. That might have been enough to keep me from pouting. LOL. Amy thought maybe the girls wanted a puppy. They just had that fun a couple of years ago when their sister got a dog from the shelter that turned out to be with pups. I hear that today is National Puppy Day. They did get to keep one of those puppies and he is the most spoiled dog you’d ever want to meet, but a very cute bassett hound mix.
And of course there were the captions that had the girls begging for something or not happy about being told to clean their rooms. They probably have real pouty faces when they get that order. They were putting on for me here when I asked them to make sad faces for me. They showed their acting ability.
If you didn’t read the comments of all the caption suggestions, you missed a smile with Lavon’s. She said her grandson called her once and told her she just had to do something about her son (his father.) She said he was probably pouting like these girls when she said she couldn’t help him out. 🙂
Remember you get a new entry in the drawing to have a chance to win a choice of one of my books when you suggest a caption for a new picture. You do have to be at least eighteen years old to enter, and the deadline to enter is March 26, 2022 at midnight EST. I’ll pick three winners and notify them by e-mail before I announce the winners on Sunday night’s blog post.
So what caption would you suggest for the girl on the cover?
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I so appreciate all of you playing my blog games. Makes everything so fun.
Lee, I’m so glad you’re looking forward to what my characters are really thinking in my new book, When the Meadow Blooms. But like you are imagining the cover girl thinking, I am thankful for our beautiful world.
Hope, I’m like you. I didn’t really think I’d trip over my lip, but I’m not sure people telling me that helped me not to pout. Probably made me even poutier. And as for your caption, aren’t we all always ready for life to bloom again?
Janice, I love Irish blessings. They are all always so poetic and beautiful.
Lucy, the beauty of nature does have a way of renewing our spirits and giving up comfort in hard times and hope for the future.
Connie, that caption could certainly fit some of my characters in When the Meadow Blooms. They do wonder what their future holds.
Susan, may all our lives bloom with blessings. And when they do, may we remember to count them and praise the Lord for those blessings.
Amy, yes, aren’t we blessed that the sun does come up in the morning. I can imagine this girl out with the sun to pick her flowers.
Joan, she does look as if she’s awaiting someone. He promised her love and flowers.
Ellen, a meadow of flowers is a gift from the Lord and it’s good to pause as this girl on the cover is doing to rejoice in the beauty.
Author
Loving your comments. Just now getting to respond to them after a busy day at the Southern Kentucky Book Festival yesterday. Plus I’m still working hard to get my current work in progress finished by the deadline date. Hopin the words will come.
But I do like your captions.
Suzanne , you’re pretty close to why the book has that title with your thoughts of a wedding bouquet.
Dana, I’d be out there crying if I had to give up my country life for city life. So maybe the girl is feeling that way too.
Marjorie, ah, how romantic. She’s waiting for her true love and willing to wait forever.
Marji, when we have promises from our true loves, it’s good to be in a beautiful place to ponder when those promises will comes true.
The Meadow is such a beautiful sight in the Spring. It actually takes my breathe away, as I try to take it all in.
He said he’d be back when the meadow blooms again.
The sun will always come up in the morning.
Praise God for a wonderful place to come and adore his beauty where life can bloom in his blessings.
What a beautiful place to think in. I wonder what my future will be like. Will I always live in this wonderful place or will I have to leave it?
Your beauty oh Lord renews my spirit and gives me hope.
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
An Irish Blessing
“Like this meadow, she is ready for her life to bloom again and burst with color and happiness.”
I have to add a comment about the last photo…when I was little, adults would say that “you better pull in that lip before you trip over it”. It usually stopped the pouting child, but I don’t think any of us really thought we would be able to trip over it! 🙂
” Thank you, God. You’ve given us such a beautiful world.” That’s what I would say if I were standing in that lovely meadow anyway. I’m so looking forward to reading your new book.
“He said he’d be back when the meadow blooms.”
I am waiting for my love. I pray he will be able to find me here, in my beautiful meadow, amongst these fragrant blooms. I will wait forever if I must.
She was contemplating how life would change for her when she left the country life behind for the big city move in her future
“These would make a great wedding bouquet! Whom can I get to be my groom?”