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  • Susan B.’s Hey Ku’s

            The green of summer in her coat's full array shading and protecting     The calm of morning Before the clock begins to dictate the day Such a sweet pleasure         Bird songs welcome from distant branches My love and I find sensitivities emerging As we delight in…

  • Winning Streak

        Poker with the girls last night (not pictured here!), and you know you're in good company when you offer to lose just to balance things out and the dealer says, "Oh, no, we'll pick your pockets clean next time, don't worry!"   The yin and yang of life. Sometimes you win and it…

  • I Never Imagined

      It didn't occur to me to imagine what the earth looked like during the eclipse the other day.     Shot from the International Space Station, this photograph was my favorite in the APOD's (Astronomy Picture of the Day) gallery of Eclipse photos.    A really different perspective!           "Eclipse…

  • The Dragon

        Standing on a ridge on an isolated stretch of beach on Cape Cod, my shadow is cast on the retreating waves of the Atlantic Ocean.   I call this photo The Dragon, following the mythic thinking that the only dragons that need slaying in our lives are our very own shadows.   Have I finished…

  • The Patience of Wood

        The patience of wood – standing long and tall as a tree, then never letting go of wondering how the river will feel and sound and taste, once the loving hands that bend the planks finish their work.     Wooden boat workshop in Welaka Florida.

  • Blowing Off Steam

        The earth is blowing off steam. Did she ever imagine that one of the species that she spawned would be self-destructive?   Every 8 minutes, like a mother trying to control her frustration over her children, the valve opens and steam escapes.   "Will these children ever stop fighting?" Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht…   (Meanwhile the…

  • Look Out!

      Looking up can sometimes make you feel dizzy. Same with looking down, especially when the tide is swirling around your feet.   I once heard some words of wisdom from someone who was learning how to hang glide, it went something like this:   Look where you want to go, and not where you…

  • Illusion

        According to Webster:   illusion. n. 1. something that deceives by producing a false impression of reality. 2. misleading perception of visual stimuli.   Iceland illusion in black and white and blue.

  • Dusty Poem

        She barks. Sleep escapes. In a city I once loved I find you asleep Deep in the heart of me.     The city is Baltimore, and is still loved and the poem is from the last century, by Laine.

  • Who Decides?

        Sunset behind them, daybreak ahead… What will tomorrow bring? More kindness, less worry, sunshine or rain?