DAILY PHOTO: Purple Poinsettia Invader

Taken in Kodaikanal on November 12, 2018

DAILY PHOTO: Eucalypti in the Clouds

Taken on November 11, 2018 in Vattakanal

Desolate Snow Haiku

boot crunch
‘a cloudless night,’
he concluded

 

old coat of snow
nary a track in sight
beauty abandoned

 

snow blind
trudging and slogging
pure torture

 

crust of snow
over dry powder
bone cold

 

drifting flakes
add a wedge wall
to a farmhouse

DAILY PHOTO: Nubra Valley

Taken in Nubra Valley, Ladakh in August of 2016

POEM: Dueling Grace of the Sun

The early morning sun warms the silvery shafts of a eucalyptus to a buttery yellow.

That seems a fine bit of grace,

until I see a hawk whose brown cowl is glowing gold in the same light,
as it perches watchfully on the one corner of a dilapidated building
that receives rising rays.

DAILY PHOTO: Tungabhadra River

Taken in November of 2013 in Hampi

DAILY PHOTO: Observation Hill, Amboseli N.P.

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park

DAILY PHOTO: Kashmir

Taken in August of 2016 near Sonamarg

DAILY PHOTO: Kameng River at Dusk


Taken in May of 2017 at Nameri National Park in Assam

DAILY PHOTO: Winter Walk

Taken on the South River Trail in DeKalb County, Georgia in December of 2010.