They come and they go
Feathered and fluffy babies
Keep them safe mother
Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas 5/1/17
Category: Nature
Haiku: Downy Woodpecker
Nesting in dead trees
Acrobatic sassy birds
Drilling for insects
Read up on these delightful birds and be sure to listen to their songs and calls.
Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/30/17
Haiku: Luna Lovely
From the trees emerge
Large and lime colored short-lived
Natures giant wonder
Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/29/17
Contributing photos from Deirdre Connolly, Inwood, WV 4/17
Haiku: Formation
Nature carves and lifts
Placing hardness on the earth
lasting Irish rocks
Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/27/17
Photo by PamelaWLucas, Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland 5/16
Haiku: Evolving
Life cycle protects and saves
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/25/17
Photo provided by Kat DeYoung, Prescott, Arizona, 2017
Haiku: spring rain drops
wet drops hanging on
all of nature embraces
sweet moisture brings life
See nature’s beauty in Virginia… natural history gallery of wildflowers and mushrooms
Uncomplicated Thoughts: Leader Bees
Honeybees could run congress.
Busy and productive honeybees cross-pollinate.
Unfortunately, honeybees are becoming extinct & it’s a mystery as to why. Read this so you know how to help.
cross-pol·li·nate
(krôs′pŏl′ə-nāt′, krŏs′-)
tr.v. cross-pol·li·nat·ed, cross-pol·li·nat·ing, cross-pol·li·nates
1. To pollinate (a flower) by means of cross-pollination.
2. To influence or inspire (another), especially in a reciprocal manner.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Haiku: Lilac
The lilac cascades
Essence of its colors hang
Bees insert themselves
In the olive family, the Lilacs have over 1,000 total varieties.
Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/20/17
Photo by PamelaWLucas, Oakton, VA 4/20/17
Uncomplicated Thoughts: Everyday
Everyday is Earth Day.
In celebration of Earth Day, April 22, 2017…make it everyday not just one day and in your own way.
“Trees” (1913) by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree….
Photo by Pixby
Golden Brodie retrieves for you the Virginia State Flower and Tree
I’m a content and people pleasing golden…I try anyway…and today I am bringing you a present…a virtual flower and tree that are near and dear to my Virginia born heart…the Dogwood. The Dogwood is not only a treasured beauty but also the State tree and State flower for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Some say that at one time the Dogwood bark was also used as a mange treatment for dogs. A tree that keeps giving golden!
The treat is all mine to enjoy the flowers of the Dogwood in the spring and then their colorful foliage change in the fall. Love me some Dogwood.
Photo by PamelaWLucas, Oakton, VA 4/19/17
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