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

Is Progress This?

Is this progress,this decision to uproot,cast possessions aside,free ourselves of ties? Can his dependency,my dependency, endurethe transition, releasedfrom former justifications? We are companionsembarking on adventure,companions retiring pastlies, redefining possibility Or, is this more of the same,artfully camouflaged –a continuance of flightfrom tyrannical origins? The paths behind are jagged,wrought with rocks and crevicesand scarred riddles, and […]

Strategy

One more trainand she’d be awayfar enoughto lose him Scavenged in her bagsearching for a ticketand courage…could use a dose of courage Thought of her motherhow torn up she’d be;of her sister, confinedto long-term care Call for boarding and a decision –neck smarting fromlast confrontation He wielded his handslike weapons. his wordslike knives – her […]

Denouement

I fear the denouement –the moment of reckoningwhen the winding pathunravels; when intentions,transient at best, revealthemselves as common liesand soul crumples before lightrecognizing this is not the end. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @ Vjknutson. Image my own.)