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

a time for being…

 

 

 

Beebe Lake late summer 9-20-16
head bowed...Beebe Lake
Geese feeding on Beebe Lake 9-20-16..
Geese feeding on Beebe Lake 9-20-16...
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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

spring signs by tom clausen

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, birds, close up details, clouds, fields, flowers, haiku, Ithaca, landscapes, nature, plants, poems and photos, spring, trees, water reflections

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across the field
with the wind
my thoughts

 

glowing blooms of spring
blossoming through the drab leaves of last fall...
Late afternoon sun sparkling on the brook beside our house... parts of the creek are still frozen and the open water goes under ice in places but was running nicely this afternoon... 3-1
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
robin at attention 3-21-16
darkening sky 3-20-16
photos of sun sparkling on the stream beside our house 3-19-15 c
out of the drabbery
crocuses
crocus time
In another world on the light blown surface of water rippling along on the day...3-17-15
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gulls by tom clausen

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

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

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gulls gather…
in the empty part
of the parking lot

 

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geese and gulls by tom clausen

15 Thursday Dec 2016

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

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the real work…
just to be
and fit in…

 

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ducks afloat by tom clausen

02 Friday Dec 2016

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, autumn, birds, close up details, gorges, haiku, Ithaca, nature, poems and photos, Wabi Sabi

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ducks in their floating world…

 

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