Forlorn

This sweet bushtit landed on my path while I was visiting Redding, California this past spring. After playing with the image, what emerged was a forlorn little fellow for whom I wrote this haiku. My heart goes out to all those in Redding, and elsewhere in the world where forest fires are ravaging lives. (Submitted […]

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Lens-Artists Challenge: Blue

Blue is the promise of Arizona’s skies in February; It is the delight of neon dragonflies on a summer’s day; It’s nature’s artistry unsurpassed. (Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week is blue.)

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Ghostly

“What can walk but has no legs; sleeps during the day, and is awake at night?” This is our six-year-old granddaughter’s latest joke. “A ghost!” On a recent visit to Northern Ontario, I photographed this solo loon.  There is something so haunting about the call of the loon, and I’ve been pondering it ever since. […]

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RDP: Duck

Mother Mallard and her baby ducks foraged along the shoreline of Sparrow Lake at day’s end.  As she waddled past the dock, her little ducklings fell in line, like wind-up toys trying to catch up.  All except one little fellow, who lost in his own world got left behind. “Peep! Peep!” He let out a […]

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Kettle Point

The shores of Lake Huron hold many memories for both Ric and I.  He grew up in a small community just outside of Sarnia, Ontario, where the Bluewater Bridge crosses over to Port Huron, Michigan.  My family spent many summers cottaging in the area, and my parents retired to the lake. Lake Huron is said […]

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CFFC: Pondering with Whimsy

It’s hard to decipher, when staring through glass who is eyeing whom, is it me or the….bass? And what happened to treasures left to rot surely they held such dreams when first bought? And if reincarnation is part of the deal, where do I sign up to return as a seal? I’d make friends with […]

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A Photo a Week: Quintessential Canadians

I hope not all Canadians are not as noisy and messy as the goose that bears our country’s name, but I do know many of us are as industrious as the beaver: (For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge:  Quintessential)

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CB&W: Birds

Mother Mallard and her babies have been the main attraction lately. Although I rather like the results of mucking about with this little bird’s photo: (Couldn’t resist one more challenge today as the subject was birds.  Thanks Cee!)

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CFFC: Diagonal Lines

A mountainside offers a diagonal view: (Olympic National Park, Washington State, U.S.) A coastal view the same: (Washington State Coast) This sea lion hopes this slope is slippery enough to procure him lunch: (Oregon, US) The delicate lines of a spider’s web intertwined with lacy fingers: (Ontario, Canada) (Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is […]

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Responses

  Indifference How is it that you overlook my presence, as if I am no more than a blade of grass, a ripple on the water, our passing insignificant?             Allegiance You are flesh torn from my flesh blood coagulated, still flowing – hearts tied in forever.       […]

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