February Six Word Photo Challenge: “Love & Hearts” — Bisou and the Orchid Love Sunshine A touch of breeze, the warmth of sun on golden fluff — Bisou glows in soft-focus. He knows that life is good in the garden, especially when you are joined by the newly-bloooming orchid. He’s watched it for a year on the kitchen counter, a withered stalk, a sprouting nub…

Weeds and Wildflowers “Shrouded in Fog” Prompt — To visit India is to experience a juxtaposition of opposites at every corner. The smell of flowers meant for pūjā ceremonies mingled with the scent of cow dung confuses the senses. …

Weeds and Wildflowers “Shrouded in Fog” Prompt — Drifting through the early evening fog, waves lapping against the hull of the catamaran, I felt as if I was slipping into a primeval world of mist and light at the border of a place so vast and wild that my brain had a hard time conceptualizing the enormity of…

When day slipped into the hard fist of night — They glide along the pinkened slick, a whispered swish of feathered down, swans awash upon the light, mirrored birds against the sky. Can they feel it? The heaving sigh? The yawning over into night? The dance of molecules within the light? That moment when there is no time? All…

Six Word Photo Challenge: Freestyle — A Pretty “Cat Flower” Growing Wild A wild dash, a taunting look, a “can you catch me” sort of flip of tail and turn of paw, until she paused, for just a while, atop my Tubac flower pot. A flower cat? A sprouting bud of fluff and puff and pantaloons? And then she’s gone, and daring…

An unexpected combination on the Black Sea — We were racing the sunset. We could see it slipping behind the industrial buildings on the far side of the marina and we knew we had about ten minutes before it would be gone. …

A Poem of a Whale and a Moment of Awe — Some experiences in life can never be recreated, like being enveloped in awe in that moment when a breaching whale leaves the silvered sea, leaping into the realm of sky and pinkening air and we, two humans, felt so small amidst the pulsation of the vastness of it all that we forgot to breath…

Garden macrophotography in the rain — “Ten times a day something happens to me like this — some strengthening throb of amazement — some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” …

A sunset visit to the Black Sea — We’ve just returned from a rather epic trip to Milan, Italy and to Romania. My husband’s dear friend married a woman from Romania last year and we were invited, along with several family and friends, to join in on a journey to see Romania through her eyes. Traveling with the…