Category Archives: nature

Nature’s AC [Haiku]

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Photograph of a small cascade between and around mossy rocks taken on the Kolsay Lake hike in Kazakhstan.
water rolls past
 moss green rocks; 
  hikers pause in cool.

DAILY PHOTO: Tall Pines, Kolsay Lake

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Photograph taken from a mountain trail around the Kolsay Lakes in Kazakhstan with tall evergreen trees in the fore and lake and valley in the rear.

Dandelion [Limerick]

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“Spring has lined all roads with dandelions.”
 At this a young girl started cryin’
     You see, to her ear,
     ‘Twas rational fear,
 For she was afraid of Dandy Lions.

DAILY PHOTO: Amboseli Cranes

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Photograph of two Gray-Crowned Cranes foraging in the Amboseli wetlands.
Photograph of two Gray-Crowned Cranes foraging in the Amboseli wetlands.
Photograph of one Gray-Crowned Crane standing tall in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

Prickly Pear [Haiku]

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prickly pears bloom: 
 yellow offering bowls —
  bees give & take.

DAILY PHOTO: Valley, Boz-Salkyn

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Photograph of valley with yurts in Boz-Salkyn, Kyrgyzstan.
Photograph taken on the Boz-Salkyn trek, south of Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan.
Photograph taken down the mountain at Boz-Salkyn, Kyrgyzstan.

Vanishing [Haiku]

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Photograph of a streambed and cloudy mountains take on the Annapurna Sactuary Trek in Nepal.
moving up valley,
 fog thickens until there
  is only the step.

Mountain Blue [Haiku]

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Photograph of blue skies over a small roadside stop in the Andes between Cuzco and Puno.
mountain skies:
 fade to a blue so deep
  it chills the bones.

Monster Toes [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a thorny tree taken in the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
tree trunk studded by thorns
   that look like 
       mean monster toenails
   with gnarly green cuticles,

even tree-huggers stay at
   arm’s length.

DAILY PHOTO: Yellow River of Stone Mountain

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