windy, gold paper and the moon

It's another lovely spring morning, chilly, but pretty. Walking early this morning to get to school around 11:00 to finish "Dots" project with 3rd & 4th graders. The walk yesterday wore me out with the wind, so I had to come inside, not garden. I wrote a Haibun

Hosta spires have penetrated the rich ground. Daffodils are golden yellow and bobbing in the wind. Lungwort is green and has blue to pink blossoms. The Hellebore is a soft green with its dark green leaves on the ground. The bleeding heart has small buds hanging gracefully.

Has spring come early?
But its calendar does not
Match our numbering.


Tiny leaves highlight the branches. Some buds, like the oak and hickory, have only swollen. Wild strawberry blossoms are pure white with golden centers. Oriental lilies have sprouted, will need something to kill those damn beetles.


Spring and summer time
is recorded visibly
buds, blossoms and seeds.


Summer and spring both are so colorful and lush with foliage and blossoms for the viewing. Each day plants appear changed. The bloodroot has blossomed and dropped its petals. The bleeding heart is waiting its turn to remind me that time is flying by.

Bloodroot, bleeding heart
names for plants and blossoms with
life giving fluid.
4/12/10

April 14, 2009

This entry has an appropriate image for the Haiku form.

evening moon setting
azure clear blue sky, coolness
on the quiet branch



April 13, 2009
Brilliant sun bathes
the brown earth. New green shoots shake
with the spring winds' blast.
I printed the text on white paper, tore it out and glued it over the scrap of gold paper, which came to represent the brown grass in the field at springtime. The green shoots are drawn with a Pentel gel pen. The verse works, and the extra words - with and the- are acceptable. I try to avoid them usually because they can cloud the image.