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#495 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life September 4, 2025September 4, 2025august, haiku, summer 1 Comment

Color photograph of a withering hosta bloom next to a gray fence post leaning over the fence rail. — August lily (Hosta Plantagenea)

fading/summer sunlight/through the window

#494 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 28, 2025August 27, 2025august, haiku, summer 2 Comments

Color photograph water droplets and their shadows on the concrete edge of a fountain that is mostly wet and partially dry.

downtown plaza/water drops and shadows splash/woven conversations

#493 -August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 24, 2025August 27, 2025august, haiku, summer 1 Comment

Close up color photograph of a maple leaf in the sunlight. On it, is the shadow of another leaf where three are course veins and the aging of summer. On the tips of the leaf are cobwebs and out of focus, in the background, the bark of the trunk.

afternoon/in light and shadow/the age of summer

#492 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 21, 2025August 20, 2025august, haiku, summer 2 Comments

Coloring photograph of high cirrus clouds in the glow of the setting sun. In the clouds on the left, a plane and its contrail.

travelers…/early the setting sun/goldenrod in bloom

*Goldenrod refers to ‘Missouri Goldenrod.’ It is a Palouse prairie native plant that blooms in early and late autumn. It is beginning to bloom here on the Palouse.

Micro color photograph of a Missouri goldenrod beginning to bloom.

#491 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 17, 2025August 17, 2025august, haiku, summer 3 Comments

Color photograph of Gnophaela vermiculite moths sleeping on a thistle in the early morning hours.

morning hush –the fly/on a fisherman’s line crosses/the setting moon

#490 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 14, 2025August 13, 2025august, haiku, summer 3 Comments

Color photograph of a clear glacial stream. Grass grows through the clear surface, grass stems float on the water surface. Below the water surface rocks and small green leaf plants.

at the surface/silent meeting/in the glacial stream

#489 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 10, 2025August 8, 2025august, haiku, summer 0 Comment

Color photograph of a deer and a magpie in the shade of a tree, the deer in the high grasses, the magpie in the cut grass.

in the heat/in the shade – look!/the sound of water

#488 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 7, 2025August 7, 2025august, haiku, summer 4 Comments

Color photograph of a silhouette of trees below, dark clouds, their tops golden lit up by the setting sun.

dry on the palouse/over the mountains/the color of rain

#487 – August 2025

jpallen Nature Life August 3, 2025August 3, 2025august, haiku, summer 2 Comments

Color photograph looking toward the shore. On a short, thin stretch of beach surrounded by green grasses and trees, a duck stands looking out at the water.

weekday morning/the only one at the lake/I find myself

#390 – August 2024

jpallen Nature Life August 29, 2024August 29, 2024august, haiku, summer 3 Comments

Another one from the pond…

Photograph of the shallows of a pond with five frogs in the sunlight out of reach of a trees shadow.

lunch at the old pond/joined by five frogs… now six!/which one is Basho’s?

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