(Extra)ordinary Nature

Posted on October 16, 2015 Posted in Nature, PhotographyTagged Nature, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: Extraordinary46 Comments

Mundane and meaningful objects. Beautiful everyday things. This week, surprise us with something or someone (extra)ordinary.

Cheri Lucas Rowlands likes to look for beauty in everyday things, as I and many of my blogging friends do. My friend brought me this very precious present this week, knowing that I would love it. I hope you and Cheri do as well.

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Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku

Posted on October 15, 2015October 13, 2015 Posted in haiku, Nature, PhotographyTagged Haiku, Lazy Poets Thursday Haiku, Nature, Photography23 Comments

iris seeds

summer residue

all flame will be extinguished

as they fall to earth

I Wonder . . .

Posted on October 6, 2015 Posted in Nature, PhotographyTagged Nature, Photography17 Comments

… just how many seeds there are in this single seed head,

seeds What would YOU guess?

whatever, it’s a miracle.

Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka

Posted on October 1, 2015September 29, 2015 Posted in Nature, Photography, PoetryTagged Black Winged Stilt, Lazy Poets Thursday Tanka, Nature, Photography, Tanka, Wading bird14 Comments

black winged stilt

Stilt stands listening
with its sixth sense on alert
stamping its pink feet
divining oysters for lunch
from beneath the brackish pool

Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku

Posted on September 24, 2015September 17, 2015 Posted in haiku, Nature, PhotographyTagged Haiku, Lazy Poets Thursday Haiku, Lichen, Nature, Photography12 Comments

lichen

Verdant green velvet
clinging to protect and share
mutual benefits

Spadger Spa

Posted on September 14, 2015 Posted in NatureTagged Bird bath, Nature, Photography, Sparrows14 Comments

There was a brief return to summer here in Devon yesterday, and in the garden the local sparrows took advantage of a plant pot holder filled with water.

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Happy birds and happy bird watchers!

Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 Posted in haiku, Nature, Photography, UncategorizedTagged Lazy Poets Thursday Haiku, Nature, Photography12 Comments

MEGS PHOTO

Design on water

written in nature’s wild script

with fluid fingers

This week, for the first time I am not using my own photo. Instead Meg has given me permission to use hers because I fell in love with it. To be honest I’ve fallen in love with lots of Meg’s images, taken around her place in Australia. Wild places with names like Potato Point, Moruya, Eurobodalla, and Narooma, in New South Wales, wild places that nurture wild women. Thank you Meg.