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bits of birdsong by tom clausen

18 Friday Oct 2019

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, haiku, landscapes, nature, otata, poems and photos, Published Poems, roads

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haiku, life, nature, poetry

otata

pasture land-
speeding through
bits of birdsong

heron watch by tom clausen

14 Thursday Jun 2018

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, close up details, haiku, Ithaca, lakes and rivers, nature, parks, poems and photos, ponds, spring, water reflections, waterfalls

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fishing, haiku, herons, nature, photography, photos, poetry

watchful waiting…
wind ruffles
the heron’s stillness

 

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Ithaca Falls with still life heron patiently waiting... 5-30-17.
Ithaca Falls with still life heron patiently waiting... 5-30-17-
Ithaca Falls with still life heron patiently waiting... 5-30-17..
Ithaca Falls with still life heron patiently waiting... 5-30-17...
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Ithaca Falls with still life heron patiently waiting... 5-30-17
heron wading in a pool off Fall Creek in Stewart Park and saw it make attempt after attempt to catch fish and perhaps it was but I could not tell for sure... 5-30-17.
heron wading in a pool off Fall Creek in Stewart Park and saw it make attempt after attempt to catch fish and perhaps it was but I could not tell for sure... 5-30-17..
heron wading in a pool off Fall Creek in Stewart Park and saw it make attempt after attempt to catch fish and perhaps it was but I could not tell for sure... 5-30-17-
heron wading in a pool off Fall Creek in Stewart Park and saw it make attempt after attempt to catch fish and perhaps it was but I could not tell for sure... 5-30-17--
Heron with fish 4-12-16 at Sapsucker Woods
Heron with fish 4-12-16
Heron with fish at Sapsucker Woods 4-12-16
heron fishing at Stewart Park- 3-23-17
Heron 4-12-16 Sapsucker Woods
Heron 4-12-16
Heron at Sapsucker Woods 4-12-16
heron fishing at Sapsucker Woods
heron fishing in a stream so focused on what it was catching that it paid no or little attention to me...Renwick Woods - Fuertes Bird Sanctuary at Stewart Park 3-23-17
heron fishing in a stream... and it was so focused on what it was catching that it paid no or little attention to me...Renwick Woods - Fuertes Bird Sanctuary at Stewart Park 3-23-17.
heron fishing in a stream... and it was so focused on what it was catching that it paid no or little attention to me...Renwick Woods - Fuertes Bird Sanctuary at Stewart Park 3-23-17
heron fishing in a stream...Renwick Woods - Fuertes Bird Sanctuary at Stewart Park 3-23-17
Heron gaze 4-12-16
heron in reflection

surf line by tom clausen

11 Monday Jun 2018

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, clouds, haiku, nature, ocean imagery, poems and photos, sunsets, water reflections

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back and forth
the shimmering life
at the tide line…

 

 

gulls in sunset surf at Roger Wheeler Park- Rhode Island
Rhode Island sunrise on the beach by Anchor Motel...
seaside at Roger Wheeler State Beach- Rhode Island-
Rhode Island time it takes to find a peace of mind somewhere...
Rhode Island fishing trawler...
seaside surf line at Rhode Island -Roger Wheeler Beach...
walking the surf line in Rhode Island...
gold surf wash...
touched with light
Roger Wheeler State Beach near Point Judith Lighthouse 5-20-15.
sunset afterglow at Roger Wheeler State Beach near Point Judith Lighthouse 5-20-15
sunset afterglow at Roger Wheeler State Beach near Point Judith Lighthouse 5-20-15...
fishing boat in the Narragansett area in Rhode Island from a visit at this time of year in 2015 ...
surf line -Scarborough Beach, Rhode Island... May 2015 -
fog was almost dripping in Galilee ... Rhode Island
chain dripping a thick fog which made for a great atmosphere to explore the docks of Point Judith-Galilee 5-31-15
bird with a bit of sunset in the surf
sunset gold just before night takes it away...
walking the surf line...
ebbing light scenes along the surf-tide line at Roger Wheeler State Beach- 5-20-15
Berta leaving tracks in the Rhode Island beach sand strolling along listening to waves and shorebirds and nothingness...5-20-15...

spring snow by tom clausen

19 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, bicycles and cycling, birds, close up details, gorges, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, paths, poems and photos, snow, spring, trees, winter

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in love
bicycling
into the snowstorm

 

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spring heart by tom clausen

03 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, close up details, gardens, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, paths, plants, poems and photos, ponds, reflections, spring, water reflections

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sitting in the sun
not even trying
to figure anything out

 

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birds and trees by tom clausen

21 Wednesday Mar 2018

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, birds, close up details, fields, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, spring, sun, trees

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a child standing guard
over a last little bit
of snow

 

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tree that appeared to have fallen and was cut but then launched a whole new trunk upwards from the cut end- 3-21-14
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vines climb
vine winding...
robin eye...
robin look
robin close up...
robin pose
woodpecker on tree...
robin with berry in beak...
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Cardinal red on an afternoon walk along the railroad bed... it was easy to see this little bit of red in all that gray beige backdrop...3-19-15-
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cardinal 3-19-17 old rr bed
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bottoms up by tom clausen

21 Thursday Sep 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, close up details, gorges, Ithaca, lakes and rivers, landscapes, nature, paths, poems and photos, reflections, summer, Wabi Sabi, water reflections

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Cornell, geese, nature, photography, photos, poetry

a time for feeding
a time for preening
a time for sleeping

a time for being…

 

 

 

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head bowed...Beebe Lake
Geese feeding on Beebe Lake 9-20-16..
Geese feeding on Beebe Lake 9-20-16...
Geese feeding on Beebe Lake 9-20-16
cloud spires
Beebe Lake footbridge 9-20-16
Beebe Lake geese at rest during a calm
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evenly spaced by tom clausen

04 Monday Sep 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, clouds, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, summer

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after the rain evenly spaced all along the line…

 

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no place to go by tom clausen

01 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, barns, birds, clouds, fields, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, roads, summer

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I had  no place
to go
but went anyways…

 

Cloud heaven on Dodge Rd. 9-1-16
clouds galore on Stevenson Rd. 9-1-16
clouds on their way someplace further...
clouds along Stevenson Rd.
circling as if that were all there was to do...
wings aloft
crows in flight...
wings high overhead
I had no place to go but went anyways...

blue jays by tom clausen

13 Thursday Apr 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in birds, close up details, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, poems and photos, spring, trees

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what i know-
the wind rushing
spring clouds

 

blue jay when another arrived to get in the picture too... 4-12-16--- in our backyard

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