January 31, 2016

30

The snow’s

 ghost

drifts away

defeated

by Lady Sun’s

power

Yesterday's Image

March 23, 2014, day 71
Heavy from the long winter
my heart cries
for flowers

January 30, 2016: Momentary blue

29

This moment
of blue
of bright
of breezes
savor
it cannot
be held






Yesterday's Image

March 24, 2014, day 72

Melting snow

reveals

autumn's 

desiccated leavings

and nature's

naked frailties

January 29, 2016

28

A river of blue

breaks up

the heavy bank

of dark

dreary

the hand of grace

stirring

the gray

Yesterday's Image

March 25, 2014, day 73

Hidden amid bare branches

a lone bird

warbles a forlorn

high-low

high-low

melody

January 28, 2015

27

This blue

so bright

my eyes ache

so welcome

I want to open

my arms

and fly

into the sky

Yesterday's Image

March 26, 2014, day 74

Nature etches

details in black

against twilight's

pale

graduated colors

January 27, 2016

26

I journey
to day’s end
where high in the trees
wind whispers
winter
and cold
where sun
is not defeated
retreating
but journeying on to
someone
else’s 
day

Yesterday's Image

March 27, 2014, day 75

Droplets hang on branches

like clear glass beads

as rain transforms

to handfuls

of wet snowy feathers.

Extra

Sunset

opens

a sleepy eye

peering

warmly

at evening

January 26, 2016

25

Remembering

countless hours

spent

in quiet

friends

and adventures

I longed for

but feared to

seek

in reality

Yesterday's Image

March 28, 2014, day 76

The drift melts

like the wicket witch

and we dance

in puddles

bordered with green

January 25, 2016

24

Today’s powder
sifts
drifts
creeps
down my collar
and into every
crevice
and corner

Yesterday's Image

March 29, 2014, day 77

Squirrels rustling

for acorns

in leaves softened by

the melt

birds singing

sap rising

January 24, 2016: Image Nexus 2

23

Underneath

sun

water

hope

remains

Yesterday's Image

March 30, 2014, day 78

Spring's tipping point

when water breaks 

free

and can only rush forward

into summer

January 23, 2016

22 (Scroll down)

Winter
I love you
Not for what you cover
or kill
but
for what
remains, revealed:
tree's soul shape

brittle flower skeleton

forgotten dip of valley
hidden curve of hill

Yesterday's Image

March 31, 2014, day 79

Winter's icy wave

recedes

revealing

the tattered leavings

of seasons passed

January 22, 2016: Just a dream?

21
Blue 
is the color
of my summer
dreams

Yesterday's Image

April 1, 2014, day 80

Lady Sun

this cold shoulder

is breaking our hearts

January 21, 2016

20

Trapped behind

glass

and concrete

I remember

sharp air

and a shy woodland

friend

Yesterday's Image

No photo for this image--but it suits today's gray skies perfectly

April 2, 2014, day 81
Winter storm clouds close in
gray-gloved hands
reaching from behind
to smother the sun

January 20, 2016: Color Contrast

19

Not steel
dove’s wing
or faded, faded
denim
sun-bleached

Yesterday's Image

April 3, 2014, day 82

Peony's fisted buds

uncurl

into open palms

of color

January 19, 2016

18

My heart longs

to follow

the path
to sunrise

Yesterday's Image

April 4, 2014, day 83

Deep in a fairy glen

with a prickly friend

January 18, 2015

17

Faint

pencil rubbing

cloud

all that remains

of day’s end

 Yesterday's Image

April 5, 2014, day 84

Yesterday's smothering

blanket of snow

is only a memory

a bad dream

awakened to green

January 17, 2016

16

I journey
through
bitter cold
to greet you
where you rise
in radiant
ripples of light
Lady Sun

Yesterday's Image

April 6, 2014, day 85

Winter worn branches

cup blue sky

and spring

in frail fingers

January 16, 2016: Image Nexus

Early morning clouds

15

Ships

of blushing cloud

swiftly sail

a calm blue

sea

Moments later, individual shapes gone

Yesterday's Image

April 7, 2014, day 86

My imagination

goes sailing

on tall ships

of cloud

in an infinite ocean

of blue

Clouds 4/7/14