Category: the natural world

an empty birds nest

Haiku: To build a nest

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Gathering the stuff
Birds designing as they go
Cradle the coming

Three Robin's eggs in their nest
Three Robin’s eggs cradled in their nest.

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 3/6/17

ornamental grass showing green shoots in the spring sunlight

Haiku: peaking green

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peaking green slivers

slender and slow to emerge

standing tall will come

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 3/4/17

Photo by PamelaWLucas 3/4/17

Pinkish orange colored tulip about to open with drops of welcomed rain

Haiku: Come spring rains

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Delicate touches

nature emerges with drops

wet and nurturing

Orange and yellow tulip about to open welcoming the raindrops
Orange and yellow tulip about to open welcoming the raindrops

Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas 3/1/17

 

Virginia Bluebells bring spring

Haiku: Belles ring in spring

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Virginia Bluebells

Come with the whispers of spring

Blanket the landscape

First VA Bluebells - signs of an early spring
First VA Bluebells – signs of an early spring in Veronica’s garden

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 2/25/17

Photo from Pixby

Up close photo by good friend Veronica Sanchez 2/17

Embrace the Virginia Bluebell

 

French Briard Sheep Dog

Brodie digs #3…Thomas Jefferson and his Buzzy

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# 3 President of the USA…TJ…Thomas Jefferson…the renaissance man…true author of the Declaration of Independence…visionary of the manifest destiny of the coming United States of America…and who knew…there’s a dog in there…yeah…the French Briard Sheep Dog.

Big paws up TJ… After being introduced to the Briard breed while in France… Thomas walked the streets of La Havre to find a Briard ready to whelp…purchased her… naming her Buzzy.  Buzzy gave birth to two pups in the middle of their Atlantic crossing and there you have the beginnings of this beautiful, intelligent, fierce protector and strong french breed working dog introduced into America.

P.S. TJ also tried to rid his dogs of fleas through a flea prevention…infusion of bitter almonds into their daily diet of barley soaked in milk.  Those darn fleas!

Honey bee pollinating a purple flower

Haiku: Honey makers

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Come honey makers

Pollinate the bee magic

Summer please bring them

Swallowtail butterfly nectaring on an orange lily
Swallowtail butterfly nectaring on an orange lily

When buying seeds for spring planting, consider growing flowers that attract honey bees and butterflies and end the use of harmful pesticides that kill the honey bee population and harm the butterfly cycle of life.