That Face!

April 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: That Face!)

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: nesting

April 5, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

“Grandma, I had a great day at school! We learned about birds!” Four-year-old August is as passionate about birds as I am. “What did you learn?” I ask. “Birds will use just about anything to build their nests, even shoe laces.” Her eyes are wide and her expression radiates amusement. Every morning this week, a […]

Words To Guide Me

April 4, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Mother I feel you under my feet… Mother I hear your heartbeat… Mother I see you when the eagle flies… Mother please take me higher… Lens-artists Photo Challenge this week is a ‘you pick’. Reena’s Xploration challenge is a sentence to be used at the end of the post. I am indeed challenged by Reena’s […]

‘Night Moon

April 3, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky challenge

Last of March

April 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Last of March, camera and cell photos for Bushboy’s challenge.

Snippets From a Life

April 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Looks as if Ric is facing another surgery. We’ll know by the 13th, if not sooner. Meanwhile, my own illness is flaring, and the new treatment is causing severe nausea and other complications. Thank goodness for my camera, which takes me out of myself, if only for a moment. Here are a few snippets of […]

Our Street, Different Seasons

March 31, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge: The street where you live.)

Unexpected Pop of Purple

March 30, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Cee’s Flower of the Day)

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: snippets

March 29, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Popping the bubbles on a newly tarred road… occasionally losing a flip flop and hopping one-footed to retrieve it. Climbing as high as I can up the Willow tree, where hidden from the world, I eavesdrop on passersby. Contemplating how beauty has never fit with the equation of self. All the glamorous dresses my father […]

A Few Reflections

March 28, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A female Common Merganser, an American White Pelican (from archives), and a local gull, all reflecting for Bird Weekly challenge.

Finding Home

Do we have to be awayto find home? Not the mortgagedtwo cars in the drivewaydouble-income kind of dwelling I’m talking peacein the heart, comfortin the soul, blessed home I have felt Presencein nature, witnessed Spiritin a newborn’s eyes beheld reverence in a dyingsister’s final breath – fleetingglimpses, nothing solid I seek an eternal senseof belonging, […]

Sorry, Not Sorry

To compensate for the obnoxiousexuberanceof my flameI attemptto oversimplify Oh dear!Seems I’ve failedagain… (As a young woman, obnoxious was the word beaus used when breaking up with me. The poem says the rest. Art my own.)

Wasted Time

It’s Monday again –days passing throughmy hands like sand,no receptacle in whichto catch the granules –why this sense of urgency? In high school, I played hookywiped away the hours in emptyplaces, sought answers forquestions I could not articulate,chased dust while other formulateddreams – how is this any different? Am I not just recreating the pattern,painting […]