A gentle sizzled whoosh of roaring speech That never takes a chance to stop and rest A voice that always whispers from the beach The sand, now zoo of footprints pressed upon From webbed and clawed escapees of the sea Do not forget when water sole was on ‘Twas muffled then in distant gurgled…
Category: nature
Doodads on Leap Year
Just a few shots from out back on my walk today, plus both kitties.
Another cold walk at Lake MI 022620
It was only freezing today, but the wind made it much colder. Plus today I walked out along the channel which put me in the crosshairs of the wind — with no hat or gloves! I used the free GIMP photo editing program today and scaled them down in size and pixelation. Using the effects…
#Haikai Challenge #127: waters of spring (haru no mizu)
Spring in the mountains Frozen stream and bright sun dance Warm laughter trickles Intermission done Velvet cloud curtains open Sun’s speech, Spring’s tears Winds chase Spring’s raindrops In spirals around tree trunks — Buds dream of leafing. Midseason’s water Winter and Spring’s tug of war Snow, sleet, rain menu Wormless hunger greets Early robin’s arrival…
Lake MI in Winter
I was out on a drive along Lake MI yesterday and stopped to take a few pictures. It was 19 degrees Farenheit with an arctic wind making it even colder. The sun was shining but it was anything but warm! I’m still in the process of trying to scale the pictures down, but GIMP saves…
Big Snow Movies
After watching the rest of Akira Kurosawa’s Noir, “The Idiot” I started thinking about movies where snow plays a huge role in the plot or ambience of a film. Today’s post will highlight a few of them. The first one is where a family in Sweden takes a 5-day skiing vaca to spend quality time…
Cloud Streets
From mlive.com: By Tanda Gmiter | tgmiter@mlive.com The Arctic cold snap that is pushing through the Great Lakes today and tomorrow might make being outside feel brutally frigid, but it’s doing some really lovely things to the clouds overhead. This freezing air pouring over our warmer Great Lakes is creating “cloud streets” – nice little…
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