FFF 62 — Doodads

Happy Friday Everyone! Lots of contending with the weather this week, but a few opportunities to forget about it also.  I went out for dinner with older son last night and took a few pics of the place we went.  It’s one of our favorite places to go.   Son usually gets pizza.  I got eggplant…

dVerse Halloween Haibun Monday

As sunlight slips away, we meander garden paths whose cooling seamstress has costumed all with carnival colors. All but the crows, whose shiny, unruffled contrast caws and echoes across barn, windmill, and alchemizes fear for the living in the dead. cold cement lively poselipstick eyebrows dance in dusk’s breathwelcoming the dark   lines, textures, towercasting…

summer’s end callers (haiku) (after pic at end)

juicy rotund red flavorful characters call each summer’s end The quantity isn’t what it’s been in other years with Mortgage Lifter, but what has grown is large and so tasty. Eating this RIGHT NOW:

A2Z 2025 — Day 14 — Nests

Robin Nest There used to be a robin’s nest under the top board of an old section of fencing until the board fell.  I haven’t seen robin nests in the yard since then.       Wren NestOut back there is a mass of wild rose bramble.  One year birds (wrens) made a nest in it. …

A2Z 2025 — Day 9 — Iris

Iris Also known as flags, some of the ones in the yard (the bright violet Japanese ones) were here when we moved in in 2011.  The rest were given to me as rhizomes from a lady at work whose parents raised them.   It was quite a job digging up space for all of them.  Most…