I took a quick walk around the yard and through the woods to get out of the house on this rainy day.

 This is the soapstone sink in Garden #1.

I had to straighten the "fairy house

I wrote about the walk...

 

               Rain walk June 26...

Umbrella and galoshes through the wet trees and over the soggy ground

Green new pine cones and small clusters of branches are stark green against the wet rusty passed season's debris

            Step carefully, each

    Foot finding secure positions

            Boot, snowshoe, snow, leaves

Imagine the same walk with snow, snowshoes and sweatshirt...

Smooth white surface, lightly pocked with snow clumps released from resting spots on branches

Uniformity of snowflakes to naked eye makes forest floor at peace

            Flakes silently fall

Gently land, one by one, rest

       A cardinal calls

     

Following the same route, around the rocks where the ground is hard packed dirt in places, squishy mud covered with wet, brown leaves

Sticks that have migrated to the path from wherever

             

Green leaves hold drops, wait

Too much water drips ground ways

    Each forms  new puddles