Birds In Black and White

March 20, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An angry starling, a beady-eyed grackle, a red-wing blackbird, and a robin for Bird Weekly.

A Country Drive

March 18, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a topic from a photo.

All About The Scenery

March 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s the beauty of this place that drew us here. For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: All about the scenery.

A Treasured Moment

March 16, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Winter of 2018. I am just regaining my legs after three years bedbound. Ric, forever the problem solver, proposes that we put wheels on the bedroom and drive south. Doctors write me a report to accompany our journey, and we head out in November. It’s a struggle at first and I’m doubting my ability to […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Describe but don’t reveal

March 15, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Post a poem, prose, art, photograph, or other that illustrates but doesn’t reveal the subject. (Don’t forget to link back here.) Here’s an example: A Friend Indeed Friend, you guidemy brain-fogged,somnambulist limbs –like a mindless automaton;I follow, barely registeringmovement – grateful fordeliverance into thefullness of day. Once, I abhorredyour consistency,your stifling repetition,found your dependencymind-numbing, soulless […]

Pink Ribbons in the Sky

March 14, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky

Fish Eaters

March 13, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Common Mergansers for Bird Weekly: birds who eat fish primarily.

Kitchen Nooks

March 12, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things found in a kitchen

Orange!

March 11, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: orange

4 O’clock is Tea Time

March 10, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: take a new photo. A glimpse of my kitchen.

Present Distance

I’ve lived the fog of distance –life’s highway a series of hillsdestination without promise Have learned that acceptance gains perspective,that climates change, and hope sustains,and that in the stillness dreams renew. Now I travel quieter paths, appreciatespace, have surrendered to a slower pace –certain that this too will change. (image my own)

Floral Balm

Of Trauma Born

Goodbyes tarnishfaith, like ashesscattered My heart grows dismissal,craves a balm of connectionseeks quiet harbour Remind me what it feels like to be safebreath nurturing life,love a rhythmic flow In meditationI reach for peaceimagine salvation But this wayward chaosunrestrainedcements me in doubt Tainted intentionsI lift up to the Universea tempest without hope My soul incubates malicea […]