Detritus
Old wood shedding paint
The tide’s gone out
Fisherman’s Shed (disused and abandoned)
Médée Bay
L’Anse Aux Meadows
Newfoundland, Canada
Taken during travels, 2023
Pic and a Word Challenge
Last week we couldn’t resist the Pull.
This week, let’s take stock of life’s Detritus. Or find something else to inspire you in this photograph of a dilapidated and abandoned fisherman’s storage shed on Médée Bay in L’anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada. Poem and photograph being a brief commentary on the state of the Maritime Provinces’ fishing industries in the wake of the cod fishery collapse in 1992.
The Pic and a Word Challenge is a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays.
With each challenge I provide a photograph of mine along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, podcast, video, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. You are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If you create both images and words, all the better.
To participate:
- Use any title you like
- Your response can be words and/or images
- You may use my image to illustrate your post, or any images you have created
- Mention that you are responding to the Pic and a Word Challenge
- Add a link to this post in your response
To help us find your response — whether on WordPress, Instagram, Flicker, Tumblr, etc. — you can also:
- Add a comment on this post to announce your response
- Apply the tag/hashtag “Pic and a Word Challenge” or “#picandawordchallenge” to your post
Each week, I’ll list the previous week’s responses at the end of the new challenge. I may also share some on my social media: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc.
The previous challenge was: Pull

The word for last week’s Pic and a Word Challenge #382 was Pull, along with this sunset photograph taken from Lobster Cove Head, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada.
Two bloggers couldn’t resist the Pull this week. Thanks, you two! 🙂
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- Pull, by Woolly Muses
- Pull, by Frost on the Moose Dung
View all the Pic and a Word Challenges, including the current challenge, on the Pic and a Word Challenge tag page.
Happy Creating! ❤