we listen evenings for fluttered wings of full moon glides silver flickers between bare trees leads where they soon turn and twirl in fairy dance do words used: listen soon do I took the picture on a garden tour last year. lanturne form series I am today’s host for TankaTuesday. Today’s challenge is to write…
POPO2024 Day 52
In my 60+ years, I’ve been stung once,30+ years ago, when I barefooted a bee.Since, have walked through humminggoldenrod and carpets of clover,driven rider near a ground nest,mowed under massive paper waspcastles (all unbeknownst beforehand!,)and was simply ignored. Could it bee (sic) they perceive no ill intent? Do they knowme as stewardess of this…
POPO2024 Day 51
I love watching birds eat.Mama Cardinal hops along,testing each bit with her beakto see if it’s edible. She rollsthem with her tongue and keeps the tasty bits,but gives the best away. Mlady and Dotty love watchingthem also; inches apart, separated by a thin screen,.Dotty twitches. Mama chirpsand she and her young fly away.
POPO2024 Day 50
Horse fields revert to native flora.Flowers, grasses, shrubs, trees;oak, maple, cottonwood, witch hazel,willow, blackberry, and arrowwood.Fauna sing, chatter, chirp;feeders, watering stations, and tidbits of the compost piledraw them back – and apples.Pileated woodpeckers, possums,humming- and bluebirds,chipmunk, squirrel, and whitetails, who come near to graze at duskafter sweet fallen nuggets.
POPO2024 Day 49
We don’t consciously acknowledge we are walkingthrough sky, but when fogarrives, we know we arewalking through clouds.Weather report says fog today.So far the clouds are notbelow the trees. It’s easyto see the wind jostlingthrough the leaves.
FFF 50 — Glow Garden at fmg
Every Tuesday fmg stays open until 9pm. In October, they have a glow garden, which is a path that starts at a main artery and meanders through wooded pathways that lead to the reproduction of Lena Meijer’s childhood farmhouse and farm. The trees are lit up, and at least two pumpkin artists have been busy…
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