Thursday, August 20, 2015

High Summer


A beaver dam is a site that is constantly changing.  Beavers come and go.  Water levels rise and fall as they do.  This year the beavers are back at the original site that we remember and have enlarged their house.  Joe-Pye-Weed is in full bloom and blends with the plumes of Goldenrod.  It is a beautiful place to be on this high summer afternoon.  




Monday, January 19, 2015

Winter Walk MLK Day 1/19/2015




mixed bag of weather
blew in last night
This morning we woke
to this silvery gray world  




Get close
and you can see
Every twig on every tree
is coated with snowy filigree






Across the valley
There is no wind
All is still
The humpy back of Whitcomb Hill
A cashmere coat of gray twill





A small party
of Lady Apple Trees
Wait to waltz around 
the snowy field













Mike's gathering tank
reflects the scene 
It's  a new point of view













 These leaves of oak
Hangers on
Remnants of summer past
Last to leave the party
Proof 
that these pictures 
are not black and white








A rock and a paper birch
Mingle




A patchwork of bark
lichen
and
cotton balls of snow







Here is where 
I turn around 
and head for home.





 And take another look
at what I have seen this morning





                                                                                          


The end : )