First pic is of the dawn redwood, now a year old. I learned that they have leaves that look like evergreens but they drop them in the fall, like larch. The tallest one, you can see the bright green on the stem/trunk which is the new growth this year. I also planted some seeds from…
Friday Favorite Feature 34 — fmg 050724
Since it’s been so busy I’ve been behind in posting, reading, and processing pics taken. I went through the pics from 050724 yesterday while taking breaks in working in the yard. As you will begin to see, I share pics of Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park (fmg) often but you will rarely see repeats,…
dVerse — MTB — Cloud Fish revisited
Memories like floating on puffsin cortico-limbic fashion;cloud dandelions, blown in huff,soar and dive to feel-triggered whimsto tumble, jumbled in the scuff.Exhausted, yet they rise againto disperse, scattered to the rough.Mere specks with their sails unfastened,return to cosmic hieroglyphs. magic 9 form Grace is today’s host of dVerse’ Meeting the Bar. Grace would like us to…
Meijer Gardens Michigan All-State Bonsai Show May 10 — May 12, 2024
poster lifted from fmg website As I promised, here are the pics from the bonsai show. All of them were taken by me, except for the last few, which were taken by “Anonymous,” aka my Daughter In-Law’s Father. He’s an excellent photographer, and the pics are used with his permission. I’ll have them as a…
24 SSPC 34 (2nd week) The Beginning of Summer, (May 5 – 19) Rikka
Haiga-shahai form kigo: water lilies bloom Colleen Chesebro is the host of TankaTuesday. Colleen asks us to write syllabic poetry using one of 24 forms and include seasonal kigo from where we live.
Update: My Hero: Union Theological Seminary divestment (was Omer Bartov Speaks (was Bernie Sanders Speaks and read more about Mike Johnson (was Protesting Students Arrested Across the U.S. Why aren’t the mainstream journalists covering this?)))
A Southern Poverty Law Center article talks about Johnson’s leanings here.
#FF — Sanctuary
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Sanctuary Laurel doesn’t get the geometry of religion, only that most of them have females drawing the short stick; and those different, between-genders draw matchsticks that want to burn them at the stake. As she’s a spiritual person seeking sacred community, she decides to do online research to see if…
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