February 29, 2016: Leap

59

Grandfather oak
soon
Spring’s magical touch
will 
make you young
again

Yesterday's Image

February 22, 2014, day 42

Lady Sun

illuminates an oasis in

my heart

winter cannot extinguish

February 28, 2016

58

An arrow
of blue
wedges
between
gray clouds

Yesterday's Image

February 23, 2014, day 43

Lady Sun draws

a pink quilt of clouds

around her glowing shoulders.

Tomorrow is another day.

February 27, 2016: Revealed/Veiled

57

Dawn 

adorns itself

with 

a cloudy shawl

of color

Yesterday's Image

February 24, 2014, day 44

Winter casts a smoky veil

before Lady sun

but her radiant face

burns through

February 26, 2016: Echos

56

From 

bare branches

birdsong

climbs

joyful

high, higher

into 

the sky

Yesterday's Image

February 25, 2014, day 45

Wrapped in a warm

nimbus of song

I am impervious

to winter's brittle silence.

February 25, 2016

55

Rebirth
of green
or only
a memory

Yesterday's Image

February 26, 2014, day 46

In the face of winter's 

persistence:

impervious

stoic

apathetic

frozen

February 24, 2016

54

Entering

the twilight

between seasons

not fully spring

not truly winter

Yesterday's Image

February 27, 2014, day 47

The days lengthen

and spring's gold

draws close enough to 

hold

briefly in your open hand.

February 23, 2016: Winter has lost its glamour

53

Winter weary

litter

of leaves

and leavings

Yesterday's Image

February 28, 2014, day 48

Dreaming a fairy garden

tangle of green ivy

river of blue stones

February 22, 2016

52

Bitter wind
and glowering clouds
belie
the foolish hope
of bare hills
and softening ice

Yesterday's Image: Picture these flowers

March 1, 2014, day 49
Snowdrop
Aconite
Windflower
Crocus
Hyacinth
Tulip
Jonquil
Daffodil

February 21, 2016

51

At day’s gray

weary end

dawn’s memory

still

glows bright

Yesterday's Image

March 2, 2014, day 50

Nurturing green

pale

yet resilient

hope

February 20, 2016: Half way

50

Clouds 
smiling
under
blue skies

Yesterday's Image

March 3, 2014, day 51

Lady Sun

stirs a languid finger

through dissolving night,

leaving behind

islands of cloudy dawn

February 19, 2016

49

Seduced

by the alluring 

deception

of false spring

the liquid music

of the thaw

Yesterday's Image

March 4, 2014, day 52

Pearls of light

glimmer

on the ebony bosom

of night

February 18, 2016: Double image

48

Winter’s bare
reflection
in the fleeting
mirror
of a thaw

Extra

Sunset’s reflection
warming
northern clouds

Yesterday's Image

March 5, 2014, day 53

Winter softens

surrenders

to Lady Sun's warm

caresses.

February 17, 2016: Dawn Reflection

47

In the west

trees capture

dawn’s rosy radiance

in their branches

Yesterday's Image

March 6, 2014, day 54 Under the ice the river is moving Under the snow the ground is softening In the branches the sap is stirring Spring isn't absent it's gathering

February 16, 2016

46

Trees stretch

slender shadows

into

lengthening

evening

Yesterday's Image

March 7, 2014, day 55

Lady Sun illuminates

the mysterious

hieroglyphics

of the thaw.

February 15, 2016: Thaw

45

Color awakens

parting the clouds

to bask 

in Lady’s Sun’s 

brilliance

Yesterday's Image

March 8, 2014, day 56

My heart climbs

bare branches

to reach for sun

and blue sky

February 14, 2016

44

Blue clouds
chase across
snow heavy
skies
that reflect
warmer light
from approaching
sunset

Yesterday's Image

March 9, 2014, day 57

In the air

the liquid music of

the thaw

sung by water

breeze and bird

                       

February 13, 2016: Flowers

43

I wait

three hours

sleepless

for dawn’s 

drowsy 

flower

to bloom

Yesterday's Image

March 10, 2014, day 58

Fallen hydrangea:

how far have you traveled

and how could

your apparent fragility

withstand relentless

winter?

February 12, 2019: Imagining spring

42

My frozen heart

yearns

for green fields

and birdsong

Yesterday's Image

March 11, 2014, day 59

Not a ceiling

a cover or a barrier:

limitless, boundless

blue into

infinity

February 11, 2016

41

I venture
into the teeth
of a bitter wind
in search
of proof
the river lives
beneath
the ice

Yesterday's Image

March 12, 2014, day 60

Lady Sun

parts the clouds

to coyly wink

at twilight

February 10, 2016

40

Beams
break through
calving
clouds
with bright
fissures
opening
into an ocean
of light

Yesterday's Image

March 13, 2014, day 61

Not merely

the hope of green

but certainty

February 9, 2016

39

Well worn path

cobbled

with footprints

Yesterday's Image

March 14, 2014, day 62

Blue sky

cupped

in the clouds'

praying hands