Category Archives: outdoors

DAILY PHOTO: Boats on the Mekong, Luang Prabang

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A photograph taken on the Mekong River as it flows past Luang Prabang in Laos.

Angry Skies [Haiku]

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Taken in Luang Namtha in Northern Laos, near the border with China. 
orange-fringed
 dark clouds drift in blue skies
  just before dusk.

Ducks in a Bunch [Haiku]

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Waterfowl on Rudrasagar Lake in Melaghar, India.
clustered armada
 of ducks drift across
  open water.

Glazed Acorn [Haiku]

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Winter storm
 ices over acorns:
  branches hang low.

DAILY PHOTO: Macaque Family

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Family of macaque monkeys on Gudibande Hill in Karnataka, India.
Baby macaque monkey on the rocks atop of Gudibande Hill.
A family of macaque monkeys on Gudibande Fort in the state of Karnataka in India.

Spring Swerve [Free Verse]

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Photograph taken at Jvari Pass in the Republic of Georgia as a rain cloud works up the valley. The previous day, it had snowed. 
Spring can swerve.

White patches,
   holdouts from yesterday's snow, 
      are melted by today's rains. 

Buds no sooner form
   than are encased in ice.

No self-respecting Summer
   day could bring snow.

Winter won't hatch
   a butterfly.

Autumn can't turn
   a red leaf back to green.

But Spring can swerve.

Invaders [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Tbilisi, Georgia near Tbilisi Reservoir in Late Spring.
Spring glade:
 small patch of light blue nests
  in a yellow sea.

Redbud [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Tbilisi, Georgia in late Spring. The pink flower buds appear to be from a Redbud tree.
dense clusters
 of pink flower buds
  brighten the trail.

Armenia [Common Meter]

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Photograph taken in Northern Armenia on a drive to Georgia.
I once sped through an ancient land
   that blurred of gray and green.
 Its pastures had been neatly grazed
   by some livestock, unseen.  

Its mountains rugged, under clouds
   whose drift could not be seen.
 It felt like a long-lost painting
    or unremembered dream.

DAILY PHOTO: View from the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration, Tbilisi

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A photograph of the Botanical Street / Narikala Fortress area of Tbilisi, Georgia from the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration.