March 14, 2016

73

Gray
and still
waiting 
for color
to return

Yesterday's Flowers (May 2015)

Yesterday's Image

February 8, 2014, day 28

Driving east where

a pillar of translucent flame

streams skyward

from a perfect hemisphere

of sunrise

March 13, 2016

72

After dawn’s
symphony 
of rain
a melodious
suite 
of birdsong

Yesterday's Image

February 9, 2014, day 29

Eight miles high

a tiny plane

stitches

across a blue,

blue sky

March 12, 2016

71

Spring’s

surprise

return

or winter’s sly

feint?

Yesterday's Image

February 10, 2014, day 30
In the darkness before,
a golden crescent moon
balances a cup of waning night
on the western horizon.

March 11, 2016: Robbing dawn to "save" daylight

70

Farewell
Dawn:
Four weeks
until she awakens
with me 
again 

Yesterday's Image

February 11, 2014, day 31

Incongruous:

Somewhere in the bleak darkness

of a frigid winter dawn

a robin trills.

March 10, 2016

69

A competitive

chorus 

of call

improvise

and repeat

pipes high

into blue skies

Yesterday's Image

February 12, 2014, day 32

Soft air descends

rosy cloud night

wrapping the earth close

til morning.

March 9, 2016

68

Last year’s 
robin’s nest
has attracted
new tenants
songbirds
eager for spring

Yesterday's Image

February 13, 2014, day 33

Retrospect:

This was the winter

of a hundred rainbows:

daily mirage

daily miracle

March 8, 2016

67

Nature

moves forward

announced by

raucous calls

of encouragement

Yesterday's Image

February 14, 2014, day 34

Lady sun beams

high

in a vaulted sky

faded blue

like my father's eyes.