10 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
creeks, dam, Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, New York State, photography, poetry, reservoir, Six Mile Creek, water waterfalls, whitewater
clean bill of health
water
over the dam
06 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, details, dried art, fields, Finger Lakes, galls, goldenrods, Ithaca, nature, New York State, patterns, photography, poetry, seasons, stalks, summer, tanka, weeds
While planting bulbs
my wife unearths
a childhood cap gun of mine
I hold it
trying to grasp back then
galls…
the very gall
of them!
05 Sunday Jul 2015
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Finger Lakes, grazing, holstein, Ithaca, nature, New York State, pasture, photography, poetry, summer
an exchange
by the roadside
without words…
holsteins
in their perfection
moo
05 Sunday Jul 2015
Posted in nature, poems and photos, roads
Tags
Finger Lakes, fragility, Ithaca, journey, life, migration, New York State, newts, photography, poetry, red eft, roads, salamanders, summer, wetlands
up out of the valley
across roads
a perilous journey
red eft
on the move
to become a newt
27 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, beauty, dreams, fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, nature, New York State, old vehicles, out to pasture, pastures, photography, poetry, relics, rust, rusting, terminal, time, trucks, wabi sabi, weathering, wonder
back home
the old truck comes to rest
in its ruts
wind running
through the field
around the old truck
26 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in deer, nature, poems and photos
22 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
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art, beauty, design, farms, loss, New York State, photography, poetry, roadside, sad, summer, tanka, weather, weathering
how ironic
coming to love
this life and world
and at the same time
letting it all go…
“the way
time waits for no one…”
another beautiful barn
08 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
05 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
haiku, hiking, lean-to, nails, New York State, Pharaoh Lake, photography, poetry, wabi sabi, worn smooth
campsite lean-to…
as I read the log book
mosquitoes drop by
bent over
from the beginning
all these years
02 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted in poems and photos
Tags
forests, hiking, lady slipper, Lake Pharaoh, nature, New York State, outback, photography, poetry, spring, trails, wilderness, wildflowers, woods
fragile beauty
in the woods
a moment
the koan
of a blossom
brevity
tom clausen 