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#564 – May 2026

jpallen Nature Life May 10, 2026May 10, 2026haiku, may, spring 4 Comments

Color photograph taken out of a window of a fox walking by, away from the front door on a path in the morning sun, it is walking with its shadow, the window holding reflections of inside the house

slipping past/a silent visitor/morning reunion

#563 – May 2026

jpallen Nature Life May 7, 2026May 7, 2026haiku, may, spring 5 Comments

The color photograph of two ducklings and a mother duck swim, dark in the shadows, while the surface of the pond a pastel of browns and blues, reflecting this sky and the brown foliage of the shoreline.

from shoreline shadows/time takes a noontime nap/lying on the pond

#562 – May 2026

jpallen Nature Life May 3, 2026May 6, 2026haiku, may, spring 3 Comments

Color photograph of a purple ornamental onion bud opening sending up three long stems with buds from the bloom. A fly sits on one of the buds. — ornamental onion (Alluim giganteum)

traveler/leaving home… and yet/not yet

#468 – June 2025

jpallen Nature Life June 1, 2025June 1, 2025haiku, may, spring 0 Comment

Color photograph of snow capped mountains above a lake, looking through an occupied table at a restaurant with glasses of clear water. Floating on the lake, geese pass by the top of a glass water bottle.

wandering through/the lakeside restaurant/without a ripple

#467 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 29, 2025May 28, 2025haiku, may, spring 7 Comments

Color photograph of two ladybugs walking around a peony bud about to bloom.

walking/around and around/the peony

#466 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 25, 2025May 25, 2025haiku, may, spring 4 Comments

Color photograph of a spider’s web on a bridge, a metal railing on the right, spring seeds, and insects caught in the tattered spider’s web.

river breeze/inhale exhale/the spider’s web

#465 – May 2025

jpallen Nature Life May 22, 2025May 21, 2025haiku, may, spring 2 Comments

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

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