Hi Bloggers! Do you have to share a story or a short reflection tagged with the letter “Y”? For example I’ve written about “YESTERYEARS” (read below) or YOGA, about yaks or yellow, about Yorkshire or the Yellowstone Park, about Yamaha and Yahoo, Yin and Yang, yogurt and yards, about Yucatan, Yosemite and Yendouma Ato, Yemen and yachting, yumm and yippieh, about Yi-Ching Lin or the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, about yawning or “yesterday, when your troubles seemed so far away …” etc. – I’m sure you’ll find an own story or a short reflection tagged with “Y”! Feel free to add in the comments the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “Y”!!!
YESTERYEARS
I will never forget the GREEN of my very first car, 1965, a Volkswagen / beagle – he and me, we had some challenges: once we had an emergency landing in a little lake of a forest nearby – where I tried to be a good teacher for my mom, she wanted to get a driver’s licence. I warned her much too anxious not to enter a little wooden bridge with our Volkswagen in that green, green forest – and so she drove our brave car into the pool with lot of protesting frogs. When a green dressed forester and his friends pulled the car out of the water, the automobile was covered with green mud. Green water ran out of the doors. My very green day.
yesteryears cars – photo by barbara fritze (me on top of my very first car, a Volkswagen), click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
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I was a minute UNDER the water inside the car, anxious to get drowned, the car lay on his side, door was not to open, dear mom above me behind the driver’s wheel – don’t ask me, how I got out! My mother was in panic and ran in panic barefooted 10 kilometers back home. When the forester came, he asked me: what have you done? Why driving so silly? I replied: my mother sat behind the wheel. The forester and his friends laughed loudly – they did not believe me and answered: never heard a teenager giving such an untruth! More at https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/weekly-photo-challenge-green/
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related:
“Y” Photo Archive + “Y” Challenge + “Y” Galleries + ABC visualized: Y! + Yemen + “Yesteryears”: travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com
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music with Y? Yakety Yak:
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a contribution, title YOGA, sent by Steven Ford to me:
Flickr Comments 
Oh dear Frizz, this post of yours made me wistful .. and nostalgic. My heart is smiling as I listen to the music and view your ‘very green day.’ Here’s mine this week, in keeping with the Holiday Season: Y is for Yuletide Trees
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/photo-journal-a-z-photo-challenge-y-is-for-yuletide-trees/
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I like:
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“Christmas doesn’t come
from a store,
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maybe Christmas perhaps
means a little bit more….”
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[Dr. Seuss]
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Wow, that’s quite some story. 🙂 Love the photo.
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Frizz, that photo of that Beatle brings back memory of “Y”, year 1984, when Dad taught me how to drive. He loved his Beatle, a manual trans car, that was a challenge to learn for a driver’s test. I must say, that training has made me a very skilled driver. Sorry about mom’s experience. Hope she persevered and got the lisence after all that bravery 🙂
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Also had a Volkswagen beetle(my first car in 1969)
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they made a wonderful tribute to John Lennon in Liverpool with a funny YELLOW SUBMARINE sculpture – as told by ledrakenoir:
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John Lennon with Y, it must be Yoko Ono… 🙂
I believe it’s a great idea, this John Lennon tribute from the city of Liverpool… 🙂
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Just love that “yesterday” pic of your first car
we don’t need asking for the owner – great… 🙂 😉
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cool car, Frizz! ^^ just awesome. i’ll be posting my Y story in a bit…
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just another poem with lotsa Y’s http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/story-challenge-letter-y/ lol ^^
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thanks for your Y-poem,
especially for the lines
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“Yummy food, bright yellow lights;
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Adults yapping, children yawning,
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Yearn not for the past
Rather, look yonder;
Youth is never lost
It’s in the heart of the beholder.”
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it is my dream to visit Tibet.
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thanks for the YAK!
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Here is my entry for the weekly challenge: http://wp.me/p23TG1-1RY
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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thank you, Francine,
for introducing YULE =
“The ancient season of Yule
is a time of both reflection
and celebration…”
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Glad that you survived to tell us about your green day 🙂 – love the photo.
Y is for Yum!!! – cakes to come.
Y is for You!! – and me too
Y is for yesterday the things that we did
Y is for yearning and things we’ll achieve.
Y is for the yellow of bright sunflowers.
Y is for youtube and evidence of follies
Y is for youth innocent, fragile
Y is for yoga ZEN!!!
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that is just adorable and brilliant ^^
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Thank you 🙂
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my respect, Kerry!
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The idea of that VW bug dunked in the muddy, green water makes me sad. You know I love those cute little bugs. I’m glad you and mom made it out ok, though. Ahhhhh, this care reminds me so much of my yesteryears. 🙂
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Here is my entry this week: http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/story-challenge-letter-y/
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like the song, my entry: http://canoecommunications.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/everlasting-yew/
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Hahaha It’s almost unbelievable. Does the car’s engine broke down forever?
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Cool first car of yours, Frizz! Fun yesterday story. Here is my entry: http://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/a-normal-day-in-year-2014/
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hi Amy,
nice bathroom mirror in your youtube-video featuring the YEAR 2014 – also the expanding iPhone in the bed!
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And Y not? I will miss your story challenges, with only one letter to go – do we get an encore? Please have a look at
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a happier yellow isn’t possible!
thanks for your
“Yes, Yellow You Yearn for –
a Yankee-doodling Yodeller
– forever Young…”
P.S.:
yes, on January the first of 2013
I’ll start again with “tagged A”
– when our Z is done!
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Y is also for Yippeee!
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i loved your post! great photo and great story!
i’ve no story this week but an assortment of y for yellow.
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you’ve created a wonderful gallery of YELLOWs!
and next Tuesday Z will be open for you = ZEEBRA designs …
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Z for Zen.. Z for Zoo… hmmm what animals do we often see in zoos?’
did you plan this challenge to end with z on the final week of the year?
z
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I’ll start again with “tagged A” on January the first of 2013! Hope you’ll continue to join, Lisa!
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it’s always a pleasure to pull a chair up to your table!
maybe i should challenge myself and use spanish words!
z
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This is great! I love the VW bug! So cool! Here is my entry. Thanks for inspiring me while my son has been home sick with the stomach flu for five long days!
http://thirdeyemom.com/2012/12/19/y-is-for-yellow/
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don’t eat your YELLOW blossoms – maybe they caused the flu?
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🙂
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Hi Frizz!
Difficult challenge this one…Love your pics…And here is my YELLOW…Happy colour, I have to say!
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101st Airborne Division – nice Yellow sign and metaphor: “Airborn(e)…”
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Happy holidays, everybody … here’s my take on this week’s Y Challenge:
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thank you for illustrating your San Francisco yuletide traditions!
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Y’all have a wonder holiday.
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nice visitors in your backyard, yumm yumm – I hear them eating! (And maybe would like to eat some yearlings for myself with a good sausage…)
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Dear Frizz,
How terrifying! I am so glad you lived to tell the tale!
I have a story that would fit into the category “Young (and foolish)”
I am just getting the hang of your alphabet challenge. What will you do when you get to “Z”?
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I’ll start again with the title “tagged A” on 2013/01/01 –
it’s already scheduled – I hope you’ll join again!
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I will be very pleased to. Best wishes for the New Year, Frizz.
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Y = YES for:
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“…sometimes it’s okay to break the rules,
but let no one break your spirit…”
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Good the forester had a sense of humour 🙂
Almost done Frizz…here is my Y: http://theurgetowander.com/2012/12/30/the-mansions-on-the-bosphorous/
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hi Madhu,
thank you for your YALI etymology: “Y is for Yali. No, not that mythical creature from Hindu mythology, but the gorgeous waterfront mansions lining the banks of the Bosphorus! Derived from the Greek Yialos meaning seashore…”
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