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Enter Comfort
It’s a weird world right now, talking to a neighbour with the road between us, spending time on Zoom to be with family and yet there are still joys, if strange ones … ENTER COMFORT we close windows still the … Continue reading
Late Night
Hallow e’en tomorrow and critters are stirring in the undergrowth while young spooks haunt side-walks and gardens … LATE NIGHT this breathing dark crossed by lifting paws a sneak of badgers through star-light wail of owl past a blown branch … Continue reading
Soaring Over the Valley
We are singularly blessed by seeing bald eagles frequently where we live, and some are momentous encounters, and I expect to see at least one on Thanksgiving this weekend … SOARING OVER THE VALLEY the bald eagle that flew directly … Continue reading
sailboat senryu
Summer and sailors are out there, chasing the wind, and having fun. Or they are busy scrubbing the keel, waiting for wind. Or they are sitting on deck, watching the wind on the water … sailboats round the buoy – … Continue reading
Three bird haiku
Birds, summer or winter, a joy wherever they are, whether in flight or singing their hearts out from a branch. And then there’s their imitators, animal and human … red-winged blackbird sings from the reeds maples in bud ***** high … Continue reading
Exchanging wonder
I’ve encountered deer face to face, almost nose to nose, bear, raccoon, and other wild life, and each meeting is a curious thrill, a wonder at the differences between animals, birds, fish, and mortals … EXCHANGING WONDER a bird bangs … Continue reading
Return
Remembrance Day is coming up. I’m sure anyone whose relations, whether close or distant, died in a World War has memories and questions as I do about my father… RETURN would the wind bring back the father who strides the … Continue reading
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This Morning
Today is Inventors’ Day in Hungary, and I like the sound of that, a special day for those who try to improve our world. A day when I’m taking just an ordinary morning walk, nothing special to see, but one … Continue reading
3-Bird Haiku
Chickadees, juncos, nuthatches, all familiar at our feeder, with woodpeckers and others. I keep the nut-feeder going all year (inaccessible to squirrels), but discontinue the seeds for the summer … a pair of towhees at the feeder maples in flower … Continue reading
When one Sparrow Falls
This month’s birth flowers are the violet and the common primrose; birthstone is the amethyst, which symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity, all quiet attributes for what is essentially a quiet month though it includes Black History Month, Food … Continue reading
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