Springtime in California ~

thoughts turn to the open road

Earlier this year ...

on the road again
new wheels ... thoughts far from

the cares of the day

Posted on NaHaiWriMo's Facebook page on 2/28/2013, but revised here.

Earlier this year ...

blue sky, empty road

nothing to do ~
and yet

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 1/28/2013.  Prompt was roads/paths/lanes.

 

Posted last summer ...

along the Alaska Highway

a playground overgrown --

broken dreams

 

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 7/10/2012.  Prompt was broken. 

 

Posted last summer

Redwood Highway

tiger lilies in profusion

slow RVs

 

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 7/09/2012.  Off-prompt.

 

Posted last summer

land sweeps by in the
summer sunshine --
wind blows the cobwebs
away

 

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 6/06/2012.  Off-prompt.

 

Posted about a year ago ...

June gloom 

yellow’s on the broom– 

road trip time 

‘June gloom’ is a term used regularly on California’s central coast to describe a particular weather pattern we associate with late spring and early summer, which, according to Wikipedia, “results in cloudy, overcast skies with cool temperatures… [It] is caused by the marine layer effect common to the West Coast….” At the same time, the Scotch broom is in bloom. It’s considered a noxious exotic species, but it’s pretty on the hill- and roadsides. The second line of the haiku is from a song by Adam McNaughton about the Scotland's traveling folk called 'The Yellow's on the Broom'. It’s one of the first songs I want to play when I hit the road.

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on April 23, 2012.  The prompt was local seasonal reference (here June gloom). 

 

 

sunshine and poppies ~

eating an ice cream cone at dusk

on the equinox

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/21/2013.  Prompt was use a season word (here, equinox). 

Earlier this year ...

rain to wash
the pollen from the air ~
California dreamin'

 

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 1/29/2013.  Prompt was rain.  

tan and turquoise

finely tooled ... these boots

weren't made for walking

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/19/2013.  Prompt was shoes. 

 riding the escalator
at Saks Fifth Avenue ...
looking for haiku

 

Posted earlier ...

up escalator ...

shopper checks her tat

in mirrored walls

studded skinny jeans

$620.00 at Saks --

a must have! and yet ...

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 10/24/2012.  Prompts were tattoo and denim/jeans.

the cuckoo lays 

its eggs in others' nests --

should we judge?

 

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/18/2013.  Prompt was crime.

 

Earlier this year ...

Newfoundland's 

pitcher plant ...

so welcoming to bugs

 

The pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) is Newfoundland's provincial flower.

 

Earlier this year ...

white stones in the summer sun ...

row on row, so many names

Memories of a visit to Stones River National Battlefield, Tennessee.

Earlier this year ...

wearing Armani

with no place to go ...

a Saks mannequin

a jet roars

low overhead ...

sparrows scatter

 

slatting halyards

wind whistling through the rigging ~

prelude to a storm

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/17/2013.  Prompt was sounds.

Johnny Cash on the car stereo

with lawn mower continuo ...

concerto for summer