Category Archives: taking time to look

May The Fourth – Quiet Thursday

Did a little grocery shop for Mom and me basics and some festive breakfast things for Saturday’s doings. Came home and scuffled the ground a bit but no plants arrived that needed planting and the ground is really too wet … Continue reading

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May third

Another rainy morning and gray afternoon. I went out in a break and pried up some small pieces (well, one was big enough I had to “roll” it along one edge to move it) of marble, laid out as stepping … Continue reading

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May Day!

clouds cannot bear it •
clasping themselves as they fly •
iron weight of rain Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 30

cleaned my paintboxes •
reminding these eyes about •
sunshine and shadow Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 28

the light is fading •
the robins take to the shrubs •
reciting their day Continue reading

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