Musings about Buddha and Li Po and the source of light — Last night, I stepped into a courtyard of a thousand pots of moons. The Buddha once said, “Be a lamp unto yourself — your ideas of truth must be put to the test.” And long ago, Li Po drank his clear wine of enlightenment under a brocade of blossoms and…

I knew that someone was digging up my spring bulbs — Well, they must be tasty snacks because my spring bulbs have been pulled up and munched on at an alarming rate lately! And the left-overs have been casually tossed aside here and there — evidence of the thief’s activities. But we had no idea who was doing the digging. “Racoons?”…

March Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Movement” — Don’t you dare touch my feeder! Little jewel, like liquid light, darting here, then out of sight — You terrify the others with your might. Is the nectar not enough to share? Dividing it would be most fair. And yet you hover in the air with a ferocity that says “don’t you dare” come near my feeder…

March Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Movement” — A halo of motion around stillness What does it feel like to linger in the air, knees dusted with pollen, amongst a forest of borage, a stillness of wing within motion? The eye cannot see all the details. The sun warm on his back, spring’s breath in his hair, anticipation patters within his tiny breast. A…

Scribe Writing Prompt — On the Road to Spring — Like ink, they gather on the branches. Smudges of spring. The Crow Moon rises tonight. Cacophany. A softening of earth. A yielding to worms and things rising through the dark loam of mycelium. Like old men, they rasp and chatter and carry on with their complaints. But they know, those crows…

A couple of weeks in photos — Does the new “boosting” that medium has introduced make a difference? I had my first “boosted” article a few days ago and I would say “yes, it does make a difference.” It’s still a little early to write about all the details, but I had three articles published in Globetrotters…

Six Word Photo Challenge: Freestyle — Freyja, now starring on cat TV Well, she is pretty enough to be a kitty superstar! And she and her siblings have actually been the recipients of a free toy once because someone who worked at a kitty toy company thought they were so cute. When I saw this little scratcher, I just knew we had…

It’s called “graupel” and in the thirty-three years I’ve lived in Southern California, I’ve never seen this before — Hail is not unheard of in Southern California. And we’ve certainly had our share of atmospheric river storms this winter. Our once-parched hillsides are budding with green again and wild poppies and lupine have burst from the earth. Spring had appeared to have “sprung.” So, when I stepped out into…

Flying over the vastness of Alaska and landing on a glacier at Denali Base Camp — “Denali drifts in and out of layers of fog, dwarfing the nearby peaks. Last night, she gave us a peek at her shoulder, but not much more. It was impossible to fathom her size.” — notes from my journal, August 2020 She’s mammoth. Her sheer scale dwarfs all of the…