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#559 – April 2026

jpallen Nature Life April 23, 2026April 23, 2026april, haiku, spring 0 Comment

Color photograph of dogwood buds in early spring

walking in the park/the faint scent/of dogwood blooms

#557 – April 2026

jpallen Nature Life April 9, 2026April 8, 2026april, haiku, spring, winter 1 Comment

Color photograph of clouds blanketing part of Moscow Mountain backlit by the morning sun.

waking early/from winter slumber/spring Mountain

#556 – April 2026

jpallen Nature Life April 5, 2026April 5, 2026april, haiku, spring 3 Comments

Color photograph of a wild plum in bloom over bare branches of shrubs and empty tree branches above and a field of Palouse green in late winter/early spring — Wild Plum (prunus americana)

unbottled/each plum blossom/a drop of water

#555 – April 2026

jpallen Nature Life April 2, 2026April 1, 2026april, haiku, spring 2 Comments

Color photograph of a red-winged blackbird perched on a cattail with its tail down, it’s beak open calling out, red and yellow puffed out on its wing

Spring color/the sound of cattails/in the wind

#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

#455 – April 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 17, 2025April 16, 2025april, haiku, spring 1 Comment

Color photograph taken through the branches of a willow tree in the spring with catkins and freshly sprouting leaves over the calm waters of a wide creek that is reflecting a blue sky. — Golden weeping willow (Salix alba)

splash!/the willow in a blue sky/without a ripple

#454 – April 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 13, 2025April 14, 2025april, haiku, spring 2 Comments

Dewdrop on the green leaves and a yellow bloom of a yellow avalanche lily at the base of a damp log. — Glacial Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)

higher up/the mountain walking/more and more lilies!

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