Monthly Archives: August, 2009
Garden treasure
The door bursts open and the shouting begins—bring the camera, hurry, hurry! Saying, I’ll call you back, I drop the phone to the computer table and rush for my favorite visual recorder. I walk out the open front door into the blazing hot sun and find Leonel standing on the dry patch of short weeds [...]
Changing seasons
The passage of seasons becomes noticeable in August—always. As the days shorten to fall, I see a different quality, a softness, to the light, and perceive the harbingers of the new season. I found a dry sycamore leaf in the garage last week, an early indicator of the changes that occur each passing minute to [...]
Summer ~ a Haiku
Alyssum’s honeyed blooms sustain birds, butterflies. Summer light changes.
Butterflies
Monday, I wrote a blog post for Healdsburg History’s website; the title of the post is, “Serendipity finds me in Healdsburg.” www.healdsburghistory.blogspot.com Yesterday afternoon, I swirled around in the northwest flowerbed chasing tiny butterflies, camera in hand. Flickering visions of delight, the butterflies—the smallest ones are about the size of my pinky fingernail—were a challenge [...]
Introduction: Facundo Chulo
As the sun’s reflection shines in the dark pupil of his bulging eye, and the mosaic lines that constitute the lovely iris pattern, Facundo Chulo sits on a rock in a small, somewhat stagnant pond filled with water lilies and pickerel weed. I see myself reflected in that same dark pupil as I snap photo after photo of my magnificent friend who keeps my garden bug-free and calls when he comes home after a jaunt.