Flowers plus a note
yellow roses mean friendship
hiking mystery
Image via Zippy’s phone. January 22, 2021
eta 1.25.21…flowers and note still there
Friday Haiku
poetry
Friday Haiku
Clear Creek. January 12, 2021.
This moment in time
splish-splashing shades of wet blue
now dancing downstream
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Red-tailed Hawk taking flight. Nov 28, 2020
While a poor photo
stunning array of feathers
cannot be denied
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Limpkin, Kapok Park. May 6, 2019
First post of the year
laying down some attitude
won’t go quietly
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May 16, 2020
Color from the past
warm refuge on this gray day
one poppy two bees
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September 14, 2020.
Two shiny floodlights
one imperfectly placed hook
clear lack of brilliance
Too long
American Robin. January 21, 2020.
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~ e.e. cummings
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December 10, 2019
The despised starling
invasive and destructive
no rump so lovely
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Root hairs of leek. November 20, 2020.
Plucked from compost pail
composed an artsy still life
next stop the worm bin
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Emma & Marcel, November 13, 2020
Family hotspot
everyone craves the sunshine
territorial
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Cooper’s Hawk, July 4, 2019. Photo by Zippy.
Take time to exhale
then steel yourself for the fight
we’ve much work to do
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Marcel. September 22, 2020.
Oh, to be Marcel
lifetime of naps in sunshine
where do I sign up
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Spotted Towhee. September 14, 2020.
Hop skip and a jump
towhee bustin’ out the moves
interpretive dance
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Clearwater, FL. May 3, 2019.
Torn petals and wings
each delicate and sturdy
life leaving its mark
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Sunflowers. August 4, 2020
Different stages
waiting in the wings versus
final curtain call
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Chiricahua Mountains. May 14, 2019
One spiny lizard
clinging to smooth weathered wood
long toes an asset
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September 12, 2020
Bee and butterfly
treading lightly on this earth
we could do the same
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September 14, 2020
Galloping along
narrow wire high above ground
supreme confidence
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Cooper’s Hawk. May 23, 2020
Waiting to retrieve
dead Mourning Dove from the deck
flew off without meal
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From long ago hike
when husky met porcupine
a pointed exchange
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American Robin. Rock Island, IL. June 4, 2020.
Could be take-off or
coming in for a landing
that feather’s no clue
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Patio bloom. July 12, 2020.
Almost missed her there
worker ant making the rounds
colorful work space
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Spotted Towhee & House Finch. July 26, 2020.
Water for the bees
Towhee and Finch say “Yes, please”
clean feathers are key
Music in my heart
Grand Island, NE. June 2, 2020.
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
~ William Wordsworth
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Off I-76. June 5, 2020.
Accidental pic
each look gives me vertigo
my world at a slant
