Patterns in Black and White

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

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: patterns

Black & White & Feathers

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

For Lens-artists Photo Challenge: black and white. Featured image is an Osprey in flight. A heavy browed crow and two goldfinches above.

Five

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

Five carnations. Five dandelion globes. Just turned five. (For Cee’s Black and White Challenge: five)

Take a Walk

May 21, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cee’s Black and White Challenge this week is Places to walk or hike. Here are are few from my travels: Featured image is Stratford, Ontario.

Cute Factor

May 7, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hard to beat the goslings, but I think this Blue Jay doing an imitation of “Take my wife, please!” is pretty cute too. For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: cute factor.

At the Corner

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

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: corners

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.

Don’t Fence Me In

December 24, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: fences and gates

Candid

December 17, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(Couldn’t resist adding these photos to Cee’s Black and White Challenge: candid shots)

Black and White

July 25, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For the Bird Weekly photo challenge: black & white

Origin

Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)

The Last Train (Sonnet)

We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]

Mouse Massacre

There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]