Cinquain: Winter birds

Fluff up
Puff up feathers
Birds will ruffle feathers
Downy feathers insulating
Warming

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 11/27/17

Inspirational photo by Tara McLaughlin 11/17

Haiku: Furry and spirited

Tiny fast-moving

filched natures leftovers

Feels the winter winds

Inspirational photo by Tara McLaughlin 11/17

Survival Adaptations for Chipmunks

 

Haiku: Fallen beauty

Glistening beauty

Autumn steps aside with grace

Carpeting the earth

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 11/5/17

Inspirational photo taken by Tara McLaughlin in Charlottesville, VA

Travel quote: A Dutch saving

“God created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands.”

Inspirational photo taken in Kinderdijk, a village in the Netherlands in South Holland by PamelaWLucas 11/3/17

 

Travel quotes: to search and live

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Inspirational photo taken in Kinderdijk, a village in the Netherlands in South Holland by PamelaWLucas 11/3/17

Travel quotes: to open the eyes

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

Inspirational photo of Jan von Werth Fountain in Cologne, Germany by PamelaWLucas 11/3/17

Travel quotes: to keep forever

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” Benjamin Disraeli

Inspirational photo taken by GaryMLucas in Cologne, Germany 11/2/17

Travel quotes: becoming a tale teller

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Town along the Middle Rhine
Along the Middle Rhine

The beauty found in the Middle Rhine is beyond words…the high slopes covered in grapevines, the curving river, the medieval castles, the roman ruins…all combined to serve up an enchanted fairytale.

Inspirational photos taken by PamelaWLucas 11/1/17

Rhine River travels and no fancy camera

Guten Morgen from Kehl, Germany on the east bank of The Rhine.

Photo by PamelaWLucas 10/30/17

Haiku: Piper

A unique beauty
A Black blue iridescent
Needs pipevine to live

Dutchman Pipevine host to Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies
Dutchman Pipevine host to Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies…plant some next spring!

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 10/25/17

Inspirational butterfly photo by Tara McLaughlin 10/17

Dutchman pipevine photo by Pinterest