Red pine fingers reachoffer praise in willow’s churchin a too blue world
Category: nature
Doodads all over the place
The new banner features two gifts my sons and daughter in-law gave me for Mother’s day. The thing that looks like a house on the stump is a butterfly house from older son. About 2 feet to the right is that beautiful orange volunteer that draws butterflies from near and far. The gardening frog is…
Kerfe’s RWG 9 — Music of the Night
Far-flung, afield, dusk travel’s magnet draws moonglow painted shadow space. I pause to note rough sounds cease asnight’s homely adjustment commences.Soft rustles, steps, flutterings stitch air,litter low, just over there, now whispers here.Sense a thousand ears tuning their stationsfrom light’s brash cymbal-clapped squawksto Hammond B of night’s sweet clarinets. top image by Dokkar Kerfe is…
Snow in May
I am expecting rain today; looking out, I see cottonwood snow.
Tanka Tuesday 319 — Kismet
© Terri Webster Schrandt It happens at every peeper’s first song — velvet blossoms call. Unfurled at the lake, I again remember your face receding. ~love~ Like a burr I’m unaware I carry, it settles on me. Dwindling as it disperses, yet doomed; planted with its velvet nightshade. Memuente form created by Kerfe for Colleen’s…
Tanka Tuesday 317 — Two Tankas
I watch deer at dusk out my back slider before turning on the lights; as dark shrouds them, I wonder are they still there — or just ghosts? Breakfast cafe fare of chai and vegan croissant, sitting across from my son; infinity rests with us in this moment’s food and talk. Colleen Chesebro is the…
Earth Day 2023 EcoTrek Fitness, Happy Little Trees 5K Walk
Cari Draft, my fitness guru and founder of EcoTrek Fitness, leading the Earth Day Walk at Hoffmaster(that’s me lollygagging behind [i.e. struggling to keep up] with Cari’s husband, Jeff) Several months ago I saw the Happy Little Trees program through the State of MI DNR and that they were having a 5K for Earth Day. …
Tao Talk 