grandfather's clock
Haida art and books ~
the mice prefer the kitchen

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page, February 22, 2013. 
Prompt:  Living room

EARLIER THIS YEAR ...


50 years ago they sang

love, love me do ...

we did

Posted on  Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page , January 5, 2013

Prompt was Love.  Love, love me do.

" "Love Me Do" is the Beatles' first single, backed by "P.S. I Love You" and released on 5 October 1962. When the single was originally released in the United Kingdom, it peaked at number seventeen; in 1982 it was re-issued and reached number four. In the United States the single was a number one hit in 1964." [Wikipedia] 

turquoise tea cups
and talk of books ~
outside, a cat

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page, February 21, 2013.

Prompt was 'turquoise'

Earlier this year ...

darkness descending

parking lot wreathed in ice fog

locked cars still running

It was January.  I had just arrived in Edmonton on sabbatical.  This was the scene I encountered when I went to the local Safeway to stock up on food--a lot full of parked cars all with their engines all still running.  It was minus 20, and the wind was blowing.  I didn't know yet that if you turned the car engine off, you might not be able to start it later.  I would learn.

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page , January 4, 2013

Prompt was smoke/fog.

'birling down white water
the log driver waltzes the logs ~
later his girl

With the prompt 'white', I couldn't resist an homage to a Canadian classic, "The Log Driver's Waltz", by Wade Helmsworth. The song is wonderfully presented in an NFB animation directed by John Weldon (1979), sung by Kate & Anna McGarrigle. http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/20/2013.
Prompt was white.

blue agave tequila

and lots of Meyer lemons ~

ha! margaritas.

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/19/2013.
Prompt was blue.

Written earlier this year:

so low the sun

in the early afternoon ...

soon longer days

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 1/03/2013.
Prompt was something that evokes the season.
 

the black phoebe

sporting in his tux ... not waiting

for leaves to green

 

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/18/2013. 

Prompt is green.

pond frozen at last

we test the ice with 

our hockey sticks

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page January 2, 2013.

The prompt was ice.

against the black
of charred trees ~
purple fireweed
 

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/17/2013.

Prompt was black.

New Year's Day --

green grass

frosted in white

 

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 1/01/2013.  
Prompt was green things.