columbine sway 

above the dark stream ...

I pause to drink

I haul buckets

of water to my plants ...

sparrows scold

Saving buckets of shower water, rinse water, and anything else I can capture has become a routine part of the California drought. 
 

dreaming 

of the Rialto Bridge ...

swirling snow 

 

 

the tule sway
in the gentle breeze ...
music of the spheres

a rusting reaper

and tumbled down barn ...

sunset

Daily Haiku

 

chirp ... chirp ... chirp
the song of the
dying smoke alarm

Iceland, Day 1, Slide 1

Iceland.  Where to begin?  Maybe the best place is with the little car that took us on our 1638 mile road trip around the island, and with a pleasant picture of some of the country side.  The car is the little blue one in this photo,  a Hyundai I30 -- serviceable and economic, but there were some gravel roads where I would have preferred a 4x4.  The photo is of a farm and waterfall along the south coast of the island. 

All along the south are cliffs from a former coastline, like the ones shown here.  The flat lands below the cliffs are good farming country, and all along the cliffs are waterfalls like the one shown here.  There are thousands of waterfalls in Iceland, so a photo with a waterfall seemed like a good place to start.  And sheep!  450,000 of them (the human population is about 300,000).   "The modern Icelandic Sheep is a direct descendant of the sheep brought to the island by the early Viking settlers, in the ninth and tenth century. ...  Genetically the Icelandic sheep is the same today as it was 1100 years ago. It is possibly the oldest and purest domesticated breed of sheep in the world today." [See http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/icelandic/]