A2Z 2025 — Day 8 — Helleborus and Heron

  Helleborus The plant is beauty and the beast rolled into one.  You’ll never find a more gorgeous blossom, and they come in many colors.  Interestingly it is the same plant in both photos.  The bottom one is where I had it under the pine trees, transplanted there after we moved here from living in…

#MMB 2025 — “April,” by Deep Purple

Deep Purple (III) album cover (from Hieroynmous Bosch) “April” is a song from the eponymous 3rd studio album, Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III, by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. Its release was preceded…

dVerse Q221 — Arrival

ArrivalEach arrival you push yournull rival away, timing right;call far, bring birdsong;hew dull brown to green;awake asleep; dandelionsnavigate lion winds; puffstessellate landscape tomatch cloud-patched sky.Energized, we frolic, ournetherworld forgotten; youtreasure, Sacred You, Spring! De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De would like us to write a 44-word poem using the…

A2Z 2025 — Day 6 — Froggies!

Looks like I picked a good color scheme for the Celtic letter F, as it matches with one (or more) of the froggies.  You may or may not know it, but I collect frogs.  They are zen masters of transformation, and they sing so pretty.  I’ve already heard spring peepers on a warmer day we…

#SLS — “Black,” by Pearl Jam

Cover of 1991 promotional single “Black” by Pearl Jam Any member of the Jamily (Pearl Jam Devotees) must consider “Black” to be in their list of top PJ songs. It’s like having a favorite Bible verse for Christians. It is essential PJ listening. Anyone in the Jamily knows the song is about lead singer’s, Eddie…