Please take a few minutes of your time to see gorgeous pieces of our planet and to read an outstanding essay about how precious our Dear Mother Earth really is. Our cousins, the plant kingdom, are even more amazing than we realized. Is it your facethat adorns the garden?Is it your fragrancethat intoxicates this garden?…
Category: nature
September photos and haiku series, dVerse — OLN
chamomile drowsessleepy in September’s sunwinter’s bedtime tea paper monumentto wasp ingenuitysoon vacant castle purple crepe awaitsseeking guidance from heavenSol’s opening nod us pine trees critterswith fuzzy green needled furwe wiggle in wind September late sproutsmake haste to shine like their kinbright tiny starlets bowed like old womenfading congregation prayswarm afternoon sun strawberry plants bloomheedless of…
Doodads — photos and poems
More pics from this week. The rain has brought out the fungi. The bike trails are lovely at this time of year. The pear tree is both a tease and a traitor. moon falls from the sky, lands in the tall grass, and cracks — patient, she rises, healed Ms. Pac Man’s hunting easier to…
Nikon Small World 2021 Photo Competition winners announced reblog from a pbs.org website
This goes perfectly with the dVerse Creepies and Crawlies prompt earlier this week. From neurons to tick heads to louse claws, here are the top 10 images from the competition. BYSUKEE BENNETTMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 The winning image of the Nikon Small World 2021 Photo Competition shows a southern live oak leaf’s trichomes, stomata, and…
United Nations committee asks U.S. to investigate possible Line 3 treaty violations — Rise Up Times
This would be precedent setting. We need that kind of precedent. In Michigan, we are fighting Line 5 running under the Great Lakes right now. “If the violations are verified by the United Nations, the letter says it would be a breach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,…
dVerse — OLN 299 — Fall Out
In the Rain, by Vincent Van Gogh (1882) We call it fall above all because of the leaves leaving the trees; Yet also because the temperature leaves what are now the eighties. Most of all it’s because we fall out of love with summer sun’s radioactive please. Grace is today’s host for dVerse’ Open Link…
Tao Talk 