Yesterday older son visited for some hours. He’s been on vaca all week and so it was good he chose to spend some of it with his old hen mum. We took a drive to the Amish Bulk Food store so I could show him the place I’m always talking about. Then we had lunch…
Category: flora
dVerse — Poetics — To Everything…
‘Twas born a wiggling speck upon a weed, a green, propelling squirm with hungry need. Her yellow sun stripes black yet guileless greed, compelled, refreshed along her mystery. A burgeoned girth, her tummy gives a burp and out her ass a silver-threaded mirth. She spins with glee; soon glows a carapace — she sleeps with…
Doodads — bike rides and kousa update
I decided to turn this manipulated collage image I did into a banner for Doodads. Click on the images’ highlighted link in the captions to take you to a larger image.
Doodads — sunflowers and others
A poem from childhood that the asters reminded me of: A road like brown ribbonA sky that is blue,A forest of green with the sky peeping through.Asters deep purple,A grasshopper’s call,Today it is summer;Tomorrow is fall.—Anonymous
haiku — Sunflower’s Welcome
Greet each visitor with sweet yellow petaled smile —welcome to the sky!
Doodads August 2021 — yard plus
It’s been a hot hot August and most of what has been done outside is watering the plants to keep them alive. We had some major rain earlier this week that also involved a 12.5 hour power outage, but I feel fortunate compared to many others in MI who have had outages that are still…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — August 2021
As August begins, chipmunks are busy a-gathering, their cheeks bulging with seeds. They still make time for chase across the driveway, under the shrubs and back again. Butterflies swarm swarms of blossoms, welcoming affections of others of the same patterns in brief amorous encounters. Monarch caterpillars wander in solitude, grazing fuzzy milkweed leaves in lackadaisical…
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