cherry blossoms

drifting on the breeze

waning moon

 

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/29/2013.  Off-prompt.

 

wild anemone dance

beneath the windy moon...

promise of rain

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/07/12.  Prompt was moon.

spring moonlight

sparkles in the bay ...

sea lions barking

 

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 7/10/2012.  Prompt was sparkles.

couples 

parked by the bay ...

moon-viewing?

 

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 8/31/2012.  Prompt was moon-viewing.

 

spring moon rising 

squeals from the roller coaster 

carried on the breeze

 

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page, 4/06/2012.  Prompt was moon.

 

thinking of sleep ~
of Alice & the Caterpillar
of white doves & seven seas

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/28/2013.  Prompt was sleep.

 Posted last October ...

trees strewn like
matchsticks by the blast ...
beneath them, new life

This is from images in my memory from a visit to Mt. St. Helens a couple of years after the eruption. Scientists were amazed by how fast recovery began. Pocket gophers and elk were seen within weeks of the eruption. By summer, the slopes near the volcano abounded with fireweed.

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 10/19/2012.  Prompt was Zoka (the process of creation, transformation, and destruction in nature).
 

Lenten moon

mourning doves calling

oo woo ... woo woo woo

 

 

sap moon
poppies and rosemary blooming
the garden calls

Posted Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/27/2013.  Prompt was full moon.

exploring the secret
water ways of a mangrove forest --
cacophony of birdsong

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/26/2013, but this is a revised version.  Prompt was key, which reminded me of kayaking in the Florida keys.

Earlier this year

California rice fields ~
resting places for
migrating waterfowl

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/06/2013.  Prompt was rice.


 

Earlier this year ...

sunset over 

the Bay of Naples ~

tagliatelle with onions

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/01/2013.  Prompt was pasta.

Earlier this year ...

rosy dawn

a president is sworn in --

do sparrows celebrate too?

 

             ~~

his triumphant inauguration

he turns, looks

drinking in the crowd

 

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on January 21, & 22, 2013.  Off-prompt.

 

trying to write
about my grandparents --
tears come, I know so little

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/24/2013.  Prompt was moisture.
 

Father's parents came 

from Sweden over a century ago --

two cabinet cards, all I have

[The cabinet card was the style of photograph which was universally adopted for photographic portraiture in 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph that was generally mounted on cards measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches. - Wikipedia]