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#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

#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!

#453 – April 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 10, 2025April 9, 2025april, haiku, spring 9 Comments

Color photograph of Steptoe Butte and the Palouse littered with shadows from passing clouds in early spring. — Steptoe Butte (photo taken from Kamiak Butte)

Knock knock/the woodpecker/patches of green

#452 – April 2025

jpallen Nature Life April 6, 2025April 8, 2025april, haiku, spring 1 Comment

Color photograph of water running in a culvert with duckweed in the Clearwater below a pocket of foam. — Duckweed (Lemna minor)

walking by/the water treatment plant/… a spring shower

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