DAILY PHOTO: A Rocky Top View of Farmland

Taken in the Summer of 2019 in Kyrgyzstan

DAILY PHOTO: Church & Terraces, Tamil Nadu

Taken in November of 2018 near Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu

DAILY PHOTO: Sunlit Valley Vegetation

Taken in the Summer of 2019 in Kazakhstan near Medeu

Lake Changes [Haiku]

in summer, the tarn
looks like greenish concrete, then
settles to teal glass

Storied Lands [Sonnet / Idyll]

In mountain meadows, bleating sheep abound,
and green grass grows as high as their hunger
allows -- about as high as cricket grounds,
but I am lost in fantastic wonder.

It seems to me this is a storied land,
not merely grazing space, but where dragons
once flew, and one might see giants, firsthand --
a place that's never known a plow 'r wagons. 

It's where magic must once have arisen,
if ever such a place had existed --
where sparkling streams still burble and glisten
whose secret is kept ever tightfisted.

If you stumble into this storied realm
don't let its siren sight overwhelm.

DAILY PHOTO: Almaty Cityscapes

Taken in the Summer of 2019 in Almaty

Nearsighted [Haiku]

across the valley,
looms a majestic mountain...
if one sees that far

DAILY PHOTO: Clouds Over Mountains, McLeodganj

Taken in June of 2015 above McLeodganj in Himachal Pradesh

Desert Rains [Haiku]

a sandy desert
sits under sodden clouds,
soaking up each drip

Mountain Oasis [Haiku]

in pale-brown mountains,
we round a curve to see
a lush oasis