Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 7th 2019, daisies

A million yellow- cushioned buttons, white-framed polka-dotted carpet. * yellow featureless faces, wearing white bonnets look up in the field * A sea of white with yellow polka-dots — a bird’s eye view. * Warm summer winds — music that makes daisies hula, dreaming Hawaii. * Yellow, white, green a perfect summer outfit sunny field…

Twittering Tales #148 – August 6, 2019 — Double Double Cross

Photo by David Reed at Pixabay.com Double Double Cross Intel learned rebel HQ was in a bunker under the orchard. Double Agent Ripley led the raid team, in specialized helicopters. As they landed on the other side of the hill from the orchard, Ripley slit the pilot’s throat. The rebels waiting to begin their ambush…

dVerse — mindfulness — While you’re gone…

“The Soul of the Rose” by John William Waterhouse Heart to heart, soul to soul talk at ego: “Take a vaca, go by car, plane, or bus enjoy it — be kind with our libido. Leave now, and check in only if you must. If you insist, resist, I’ll have you trussed! During the time…

Disneyland

image link It was September and cold weather wasn’t far away. Troy decided to convert his wood-burning fireplace into one that burned compressed sawdust chips for the coming winter. He went out to Klegslist looking for bargains on the chips to save even more money on heating his home this coming often sub-zero Michigan winter….

dVerse – haibun – Hiroshima –Hibakujumoku

Looking way back at the Jurassic period ginkgo trees flourished across the Asian continent. Over millions of years, their fossils began to diminish. Two and a half million years ago, only a “handful of ginkgo lineages” remained, in the forests of Central China. At some point 1300 to 1400 trees made their way to Japan….

Coloring Club Plus — 8/5/19

Yes, late again.  My apologies.  My kids came over around 2:30 yesterday and stayed until 4:30.  I left at 4:30 to go to a cidery for ice cold cider, good food, and excellent conversation along with many laughs with friends. Got home from there and decided to watch movies instead of listening to music and…

The Klutz

image link Chet was a klutz. It started in infancy when he dropped his baby bottle from the crib. Chet’s nanny came running and had the formula-saturated broken pieces of thick clear glass bagged and put into the bin in a jiffy. “Chetty, that’s the third bottle this week! What are we going to do…