Orchids

October 22, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our home, with all its windows and light, seems to be a good host for orchids. Here are a few of our plants.

Behind

June 21, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I do, sometimes, think of what is behind a photo I’m about to take. Like these wildflowers, blowing in the breeze, the blue of the river adding to the scene. Or the mystery object beyond the grasses. Flowers for Mom. The blurred backdrop lending context. For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Behind

Last for May

June 2, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Two heart warming visits – one feathered, one curly-topped.

No Way

May 10, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Looking for a directionbut the way was blockedthe carefully manicured pathnot for the likes of me Then the snow cameand the tree lined pathbore no tracks of passersbyand I was not brave enough to try So I waited, as the seasons changedbut Spring bought floodingand the way was more treacherous yet –Inside I remain, resigned […]

Seasonal Defiance

January 22, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

Cast my shadow over white banks/ assert presence: proud, defiant Will find beauty in deserted places / and colour in the monochrome Haunted by a winter state of mind / resolved to stretch despite chill. For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: illustrate a favourite quote or poem. Of course, I chose a poem of my own: Seasonal Defiance, originally published […]

Dramatic

January 14, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Outside of the city limits, where trees claim honour as the tallest structures, the sky is always dramatic. No matter my mood, the dramatic contrast of a red cardinal against a tangle of branches always makes me catch my breath. So beautiful. The eldest granddaughter, intent on photo bombing my family shots, helped create this dramatic […]

These Things are Golden…

December 29, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The lights of a miniature Christmas village are golden, but what is really golden is this gluten-free chocolate croissant my husband gifted me for the holidays. Yum! For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: silver or gold

Well, there’s brown in the sign…

December 24, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…and then dirt… For Cee’s Which Way challenge: with the colour black or brown

White (CFFC)

December 22, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: white

Mesmerized on a Cloudy Day

December 17, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It is not the road –smoothly pavedand well defined –that entices It is the luminous,numinous – darknesssurrendering to light –expansive sky Renders me humblebreathless, mesmerized –imagination and desirecraving flight (For Cee’s Which Way Challenge: cloudy or stormy day)

Mother

When I had a mothermy hair would cascadein curls of auburn perfectiona red velvet bow to accentuate the wave And I’d wear my bestnewly sewn frockwith lace at the neckand fishnet stockingsand patent Mary Janes And the girls giggling with delightwould skip hand-in-handto the school promand the boys shyly perchedagainst the back wall would wonderhow […]

Lull (tanka)

Self-Sufficient

Isolated and incapacitatedI am prohibited from partakingof the influx of information incessantly presented consequently cut offfrom prescribed expectationsdictating costuming and culture external expressions of acceptanceare sorely missing, suggestingan overall lack of self-worth. Interestingly inverse to such conclusionsis the sudden contentment that arisesfrom escaping the mayhem Internal relief overrides dictated performancesurrendering willingly to intrinsic motivationand renewed […]