Raindrops, green tree snake

Her jungle home, a glass tank

And the mice find her

Shining golden eyes

Observe my photography

Unconcerned, lovely

Crocus

The cold earth now begins 

To share the colorful surprises

Crafted in dark bulbs

Secretly under snowy blankets

Patient until the sun gently

Drives them mad with warm love

Until they cannot help

But burst forth upward

Trying to touch their deity

Their lifesource

With the most joyous of hues

Vale of shadows

Bridge of sighs

sunless for me

solitary

some days i'm on the ball

today i'm in a ball

fog settled in

outlook grim

Pale green fringed catteleya orchid

Multitask

She holds her cellphone to her ear

With her shoulder

Listening, concentrating,

Stuffing bites of gelatin dessert

In her mouth

Driving.

Gots to multitask

Or you ain't alive

Enough.

I am writing poetry

And processing vitamin D

In the sun

Happy.

When You Are Old

 

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one woman loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid her face amid a crowd of stars.

       *W B Yeats*

She flushed with pleasure

At the compliment he paid

Girl validated

A happy birthday

I visited a jungle

with snow storm outside

The violets came

Weren't there before the last snow

Joyous spring heralds

Today I saw a pair of hawks sitting together in a tree, I thought it would make a cool picture. Of course they saw me coming a mile away and flew off, but I caught them in flight. I need a telephoto lens.