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#465 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 22, 2025May 21, 2025haiku, may, spring 1 Comment

Color photograph of a Heartleaf arnica bloom with grasses going to seed leaning on it heavy with rain. — Heartleaf Arnica (Arnica cordifolia)

with each step held/by the heartleaf arnica/heavy with rain

#464 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 18, 2025May 17, 2025haiku, may, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph of a storm drain at the side of the road with rapeseed growing at the curb’s edge, a broken branch with wilting green leaves lying on the grate in the upper left.

between rains/flow at the storm drain/wind from a passing car

#463 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 15, 2025May 14, 2025haiku, may, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph of a pine tree sapling in dappled sunlight in front of a blue sky and trees reflected in a roadside pond.

dust mote/filtered sunlight/on the pine

#462 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 11, 2025May 7, 2025haiku, may, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph of a golden California poppy in bloom with a sweat bee inside. — California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Sweat bee (Lasioglossum)

on the hillside/only one room/for the sweat bee

#461 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 8, 2025May 4, 2025haiku, may, spring 3 Comments

Color photograph of one opened Apple blossom and two unopened apple blossoms on a branch at the top of a fence sitting above their shadow in the midday sun. — Apple tree (Malus pumila)

no rain for days/droplets on the fence/apple blossoms

#460 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 4, 2025May 4, 2025haiku, may, spring 6 Comments

Color photograph of a dandelion bloom gone to seed backlit by the sun — Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Evening light/through a slit in the fence/no need for a wish

#459 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 1, 2025April 30, 2025april, haiku, may, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph at the edge of a bulldozed field flattened dirt brown and green weeds and grasses and a yellow dandelion bloom, all in the shadow of a plastic construction zone fence.

passing by/after the bulldozer/silence

#458 – April 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 27, 2025April 27, 2025april, haiku, spring 1 Comment

Color photograph of dust rising high in the sky forming clouds. The dust is rising from a field being plowed (or cultivated) and seeded.

spring seeding/from the plow/a dusty breath.

#457 – April 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 24, 2025April 23, 2025april, haiku, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph of a tree sprouting the first leaves of spring in a pasture where the ground has sagged due to high water, old tree trunk lies in the crack extending from the base of the living tree.

a tear in the fabric/old bones revealed/first leaves of spring

#456 – April. 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 20, 2025April 20, 2025april, haiku, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph of a fern growing in the shape of a chalice and flame in a patch of moss. — Western swordfern (Polystichum munitum) & Star moss (Syntrichia ruralis)

aflame/in shadow –moss drifts/stone stone

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