927. moody

a sky full of moods
black, grays, white, silver edges
blue at tunnel’s end  🦊❤️

Weather can be very moody. Sometimes many moods are hovering at the same time.  But behind it all the sky remains clear and blue. Just like people… 🦊❤️

 

926. congratulations diane




her breaths of ink flow
and blankness is filled with life
a crane caught in flight  🦊❤️

Our friend Diane had two of her Chinese Ink Brush and Watercolor drawings accepted for exhibit at the famous “Philadelphia Sketch Club”, America’s oldest club for artists. We attended the opening and shared in Diane and Paul’s celebration of her art.  Her works, “South for Winter” and “Orchid” are beautiful. Congratulations Diane!! 🦊❤️






 

925. remembering pigeon creek

in the muddy creek
one goose undaunted - floats on
the other - looks on 🦊❤️

 Life is like Pigeon Creek in my hometown.  Sometimes it is slow and lazy, cold and icy, low and thirsty, raging and rushing or flooded and muddy.  I even remember it being poisoned by a train derailment when soybean oil was spilled into it. But mostly it is just right and flows just fine.  The undaunted goose isn’t deterred by the creek’s current state, it plunges right in. The poor bystander goose looks on, wishing it could and would. 🦊❤️

924. a world without special effects

wednesday evening flick
“on the waterfront”… brando
 two old men with beards  🦊❤️

In this world of special effects, there is a much more profound effect when the mind is left to its own powers to  fill in the special effects that are missing from an old black and white movie. 🦊❤️

923. an embroidered sky

fabric of the sky
delicately embroidered
by a thread of geese 🦊❤️

The deafening sound of a squadron of geese flying in close formation quickly transformed into a delicate strand of thread as it stitched its way across the sky. 🦊❤️

 

922. fleeting magic

in the dark of night
frost imparts its magic touch
ahhhh… so quickly gone 🦊❤️

 Masterpieces created by frosty air in the still of the night so quickly are erased when daylight arrives.  Their brief exhibit makes them all the more beautiful.  🦊❤️

921. a don’t tread on me world

every day battles
don’t do this… don’t do that
be nice… curb your dog 🦊❤️

I get a kick out of the signs, shirt messages, buttons, flags,   etc. that everyday people display to fight their own daily battles of others treading on them or their view on how life should proceed. Litter, dog poop, parking spaces, pronouns, political parties, and on and on and on.  I guess we are lucky to be able to express our grievances… sometimes.  🦊❤️