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#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

#486 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 31, 2025July 30, 2025haibun, haiku, july, summer 6 Comments

While at Benewah lake, I couldn’t help but to think of the relationship between the sky and water. The point where they meet is such a thin slice of space, yet abundant with activity.

Morning:

Color photograph of pine trees, blurred in the light ripples of water, at the top a western grebe floats by leaving a thin white wake.

below contrails/in the sky/a western grebe

Afternoon:

Photograph of a pond lily in bloom surrounded by patches of blue sky reflected in water and green leaves.

a patch/in the blue sky/spatterdock!

Evening:

Color photograph of the sunset reflected in the waters of a lake. Grass is poke through the sky and the golden clouds. In the distance, a reflection of the lake under an abandoned train trestle.

light/from a distant shore/an abandoned trestle

#484 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 24, 2025July 23, 2025haiku, july, summer 2 Comments

Color, close-up photograph, of roses in bloom with a few droplets from a light rain

by the rose drifts/the fragrance of golden fields/ Palouse summer rain

#483 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 20, 2025July 20, 2025haiku, july, summer 2 Comments

Color photograph of a plant growing on the edge of and through the slats of an old dock lit up by the evening sun above its long shadow.

wind blown light/on lapping waves —she goes/for an evening swim

#482 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 17, 2025July 16, 2025haiku, july, summer 1 Comment

Photograph looking down a dirt road towards the gate. Beyond the gate, a young Buck stares down a road where in the distance approaching is a cement truck and beyond that a bus making a turn the road is surrounded by green leaves, telephone poles, wires, and mailboxes.

Between the two/a whisper in the breeze/on an empty road

#481 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 13, 2025July 9, 2025haiku, summer 7 Comments

Color photograph of a Marigold in bloom growing through a small hole at the bottom of a cement step at the front door. — African Marigold (Tagetes erecta)

a thread/through the eye of the needle/wind blown seeds

#480 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 10, 2025July 9, 2025haiku, july, summer 8 Comments

Color photograph of a blue heron standing in the shallows of a pond with its beak open. Reflected in the pond are the Palouse summer fields and a blue sky, the distortion resembling a painting.

Plein air!/a stroke across the canvas/the blue Heron’s call

#479 -July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 6, 2025July 6, 2025haiku, july, summer 5 Comments

Color photograph of nine basalt columns with small holes at the top of six of the columns.

A speedboat’s wake/against basalt cliffs…/the sound of ancient pipes

#478 – July 2025

jpallen Nature Life July 3, 2025July 3, 2025haiku, july, spring, summer 2 Comments

Color photograph of a bumblebee in the late spring and early summer ocean spray blooms at sunset. — Ocean spray (Holodiscus discolor)

a buzz/in the ocean spray/spring passing

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