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

Wasn’t Meant to Be

Love evolves –a considerationwe overlookedthose day whenpassion drove usto fanciful displays Tried to align myselfto the certaintyof your dreamsbut my compasswas set elsewhere Memory, thoughhas tattooed uson my heart;the ink still bleeds. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. Image mine.)

Cryptic

Is the writing on the wall so cryptic?Graphic images depict rageflames of dissonanceyoung men bleeding at their own handscompassion incapacitated. A sad awakening for a society fixatedon rights and privileges, dominating culture excluding the nurtureof humanity, or preservation of life. How can we continue to closet our children’s pain – their vitality oozing – hopelessly […]

Needing a Sign

Restlessness accompanies meon this sojourn today –unfazed by ripe redbelly of robin,or shimmering emeraldof breeding merganser’s crown. My lens seeks out decay –rotting wood, darkened cavities,as if my soul craves reassurancethat life persists even where deathhovers – I need a sign Discontent, I move on-drive the river roadsnail’s pace – praying forsomething to shakethis malaise […]