Inklings // May 2025

Here I am! Here I am! Squeaking in under the wire at the last minute. The last three weeks in May have been absolutely jam-packed, but I was determined not to miss this month's Inklings.

As always, feel free to join anytime here until the next prompt goes up. 💜 

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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May's prompt is:

A stagecoach scene in book or film

And *surprise surprise* I'm highlighting this introductory scene from the 1939 Stagecoach. One of my tip top favorites of all time. 

There are so many things going on in this scene... but my lips are sealed. 

I seriously don't want to give any of the deliciousness away. xD 

(You can see my full review for it here, if you're interested. ;))

I c o n i c

Love it so much!

Have you seen this Stagecoach?

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🌿 Have fun and can't wait to see what y'all come up with! 🌿

Inklings // April 2025

Happy April! Hope you're all having a lovely spring.

As always, feel free to join anytime here until the next prompt goes up! 💜 

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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April's prompt is:

A scene with roses in book or film

I'm really getting into a period drama mode lately... We also have roses blooming everywhere right now, and -- while I generally get in a N&S mood more in the fall / wintertime -- what with these sunny, blowsy yellow blooms glowing outside my kitchen window + everything being absolutely saturated in fresh green (you can probably see where this is going... xD), I just had to highlight the '04 North and South. I mean, what else is one to do?

I was specifically thinking of the early scene when Margaret's in the verdant south and Lennox comes to visit and then they're sitting in the grass together. (You can see the roses popping up in the pic below.)

(And then, of course, we have to have this lovely Pinterest collage... ;) Is that sliding two scenes into one prompt? 🫣)

*happy sigh* So beautiful!

Have you seen the '04 North and South?

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Inklings // March 2025

Happy March! We just got back from some long distance travels and I got everything unpacked today and quite a bit of the laundry done and also soaked and heeled in some bare root roses that arrived while we were gone. It feels like everything is going crazy here, there's just starting to be green everywhere. I was running round in the dark when we arrived home last night checking what had leafed out. 😅 Does it feel like spring where you are? 

And I was so happy to see your entries last month. As always, feel free to join anytime here until the next prompt goes up! 💜 

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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March's prompt is:

A scene with strangers meeting / becoming acquainted

I'm in the middle of Elisabeth Grace Foley's A Sidekick's Tale and it's hilarious. I was reading it on the plane yesterday and giggled out loud over this bit so thought it'd be perfect to share:

"And of course one thing led to another, as they always do, and before you knew it Lem and I had got started on a good old-fashioned do-you-remember session. Every once in a while when cousins foregather they drag out of mothballs all the memorable moments in the family history clocked in during their lifetime, and a few winners that've been passed on to them second-hand, and give them a good airing. Well, that was what we did, and Chance sat still as a mouse and listened with a kind of scared look on his face. I don't know if you've ever noticed it, but while the behavior of your family seems perfectly normal to you, it comes across as pretty half-baked to an outsider...

"But then again, the crazier a thing sounds the more people want to hear about it. Eventually Chance got interested in spite of himself and began to loosen up a little bit. He even laughed in the right places. I think he'd been rather afraid of my cousins at first, even though they were mainly harmless except when things went off by accident..." 

Definitely enjoying the tale and looking forward to what happens next. xD 

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