DAYLILLIES

SIGNIFIER

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WEATHER

"A Possible Dericho"

PEACEFULL

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"Kothbiro"

PEACE

SUMMER GIRLS

MANDELA

Nelson Mandela is 94 Today

KEEPING

 The Promise

by Jane Hirshfield 

Stay, I said

to the cut flowers.

They bowed

their heads lower.

Stay, I said to the spider,

who fled.

Stay, leaf.

It reddened,

embarrassed for me and itself.

Stay, I said to my body.

It sat as a dog does,

obedient for a moment,

soon starting to tremble.

Stay, to the earth

of riverine valley meadows,

of fossiled escarpments,

of limestone and sandstone.

It looked back

with a changing expression, in silence.

Stay, I said to my loves.

Each answered,

Always.

Poem courtesy of

American Life In Poetry 


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STEW

THE HORSECAT

I posted this photograph of a window with a horse statue behind the curtain,

Deanna saw a cat...so she made this charming line drawing over a print of it!

I just love it.

AUTOGRAPH

THE FIRST

REFLECTIONS

SUNSET

THREE WINDOWS

Heatwave #1

Heatwave #2

Heatwave #3

ECCENTRIC

Today is the aphelion--the point in the year when the Earth is at its farthest distance from the Sun. The Earth and all the other planets have orbits that are "eccentric," a slightly squashed circle, and the Sun is slightly closer to one end of the ellipse. The perihelion--the point in the orbit when we're closest to the Sun, occurs in January, and at that time we're about 5 million kilometers closer than we are at aphelion in July.

STREET SCENE

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

GARDEN GIFTS

ALMOST

LANDSCAPE IV