finch bob on thistle
pecking dashed brown seeds, chirping
in warm autumn wind
nothing alive feels worried
just joy with every breath
kigo: (thistle) seeds, (warm) autumn wind
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note: plants breathe too!
Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday.
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Beautiful post
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Thank you, Satyam.
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Ah, like a nice fall breeze….
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:) Me too, Christine
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What a lovely poem and a beautiful image!
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Balroop, thank you <3
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Beautiful 🤩
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Glad you like it, Sadje :)
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🩷🩷🩷
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What a beautiful image! both photo and words. (K)
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Kerfe, thank you and glad you like them.
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Those birds blend perfectly with the flowers, almost as if it’s by design!
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Now you’re talking.
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They make the perfect camouflage. Between that and your poem I can almost hear them.
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I usually cut any thistle I find in the yard down, but maybe I shouldn’t. One time I found a small garter snake on one, which was really surprising. I wonder if the snake was going to try and capture something coming to eat the seeds or was just sunning itself?
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Probably sunning himself being a garter snake…but you never know. Speaking of snakes…another reason I like fall and cool weather…no snakes. We saw a 4 foot long black racer in our backyard last week…I dont’ mind those.
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Max, you see a lot of snakes around your property. No wonder they make you nervous. Hey I was thinking the other day about you watching that Chandler guy with his snakes. Doesn’t that make you nervous??
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Well yes chicken snakes and black racer…we have lived here since 2007 and only one bad one…a copperhead around 8 years ago.
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Beautiful poem !
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Thank you, “Someone.”
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I love your tanka, Lisa. The thistle are really purple this year! Good job on the kigo words.
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Colleen, thank you. I started out with millet as it sprouts from bird seed and when it goes to seed the birds love it. Thistle worked out better.
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I used to have Conical Thisle… on my nature walk Sunday I saw some going to seed. I may have to go back to the park and get some!! I’ve actually seen stems of Conical Thisle de-thorned and dyed and sold as home decorations (before it went to seed that is.) :D
I think we had a mild first frost… I hope I can gather the rest of my garden veggies… “Semi-hardy vegetables that can withstand light frost of air temperatures in the range of 28 to 32 degrees include beets, spring market carrots, parsnip, lettuce, chard, pea, Chinese cabbage, endive, radicchio, cauliflower, parsley and celery.” hm… not sure about my green tomatoes…
Hm… I did not do this “What do you do with your green tomatoes that are still on the vine after frost hits? If they’ve frozen at all, throw them out. They’re nasty. If you pull the whole plant up by the roots before frost, you can hang it upside down in your garage (as long as it doesn’t freeze), and they will keep ripening for weeks.” But they were close to the house. I did get most of the larger ones…
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Jules, I’m not really sure you want to encourage thistle. It’s a noxious and thorn-covered giant plant that takes over spaces. I cut it down whenever I see it, but some always seems to survive, usually in the ditch.
Very useful info on frost. I noticed yesterday it got the black beauty zucchini plants that were still producing. I should try to rig something up for the tomato plans in the garage. But can they ripen in the dark? There’s no light in there.
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I put my green tomatoes in a brown paper bag to ripen. I think that would be better than stringing up the plant… but that’s just me.
The conical thisle is pretty… I think I could find some ‘strays’ just for a vase. So maybe I’ll skip planting it! ~Thanks
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