This had to be one of the most uneventful weekends of all time, which isn’t a bad thing. Low-key in a global realm of increasing chaos is respite. My only complaint is relentless grey cloud cover. Looking out today, there were a few cloud partings with brief headlights of sun. I see a bright cloud…
Category: nature
season calls (tanka)
Still, woodland clearinggeese rise, through millennia,when the season callsour steps quicken to beat duskour short breath puffs of white mist video shot at Blandford Nature Center last weekend, which inspired the tanka
Halloween 2023 Blizzard plus a silver lining bonus at the end
Remember yesterday with the amusing turkey video? Remember how nice and fall-like it was? Remember the tire blow-out and the new tire on order and the donut? I did not want to drive on the donut as the guy at the tire shop said don’t go over 50mph on it. But I had a massage…
dVerse — Haibun Monday — fall equinox (haibun)
I take my daily stroll around the yard and notice the shift in color as summer theater packs up its costumes. Browns lift from the soil to the tips of flower stalks as prickly seeds that I gather into slowly filling ramekins. Bright-costumed sulphur cosmos depart, to creep their color along undergrowth and up into…
Cardinal flowers and hummingbirds (tanka)
Cardinal flowersflag down thirsty hummingbirds;fizzy lifting drinkstransfix them; straw tongues sip andrecall drinks before feeders.
red pine prayers (senryu)
Red pine fingers reachoffer praise in willow’s churchin a too blue world
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