Tag: Haiku

Kousa dogwood flowers

Haiku: Kousa Dogwood

Published on by Lucas Pam6 Comments

A flowering tree
A four pointed white petal
Japanese lovely

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 5/20/17

Photo by PamelaWLucas, Oakton, VA 5/20/17

Asian Kousa dogwood berries
Asian Kousa dogwood berries that appear in the fall.

These beauties are resistant to many of the diseases that frequently plague flowering dogwoods and they offer seasonal changes on the landscape.

Vines, sweet pea blossom and tendrils

Haiku: Tendrils bring blossoms then Peas

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Tender thin green vines
Wrapping tendrils cling and reach
Blossoms come the peas

Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas 5/20/17

Inspiring photo by PamelaWLucas 5/20/17

Here are many varieties of peas for you to learn about quickly.

tendrils of sugar peas
tendrils of sugar peas
Sweet pea blossom about to open
Sugar pea blossom about to open

 

chipmunk peaking out of a tree hole

Haiku: Chipper Chipmunk

Published on by Lucas Pam5 Comments

Tiny furry stripes
Speedy and industrious
camouflaged critter

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 5/7/17

Mother bird feeding chicks at the opening of a birdhouse

Haiku: Full house

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They come and they go
Feathered and fluffy babies
Keep them safe mother

Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas 5/1/17

Making a paradise for birds…create it and they will come.

Downy Woodpecker

Haiku: Downy Woodpecker

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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

 

 

Luna Moth photographed in Linwood, WV late April

Haiku: Luna Lovely

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From the trees emerge
Large and lime colored short-lived
Natures giant wonder

Luna Moth photographed in Linwood, WV late April
Luna Moth photographed in Linwood, WV late April

Read about the Luna Moth…don’t use pesticides that kill them and plant their favorite trees to attract the lovelies.

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/29/17

Contributing photos from Deirdre Connolly, Inwood, WV 4/17

Rock formations, Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland

Haiku: Formation

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Nature carves and lifts
Placing hardness on the earth
lasting Irish rocks

On-site map of the Grand Causeway
On-site map of the Grand/Giant’s  Causeway

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/27/17

Photo by PamelaWLucas, Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland 5/16

A hanging drip of water during a rainfall

Haiku: spring rain drops

Published on by Lucas Pam10 Comments

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

 

'Sensation' Lilac cluster

Haiku: Lilac

Published on by Lucas Pam5 Comments

The lilac cascades

Essence of its colors hang

Bees insert themselves

Lovely lilacs
“Sensation Lilac”

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

 

purple and white pansy bloom

Haiku: Pansy

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Lovely little face
Come early after winter
Fragrant viola

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/18/17

Photo by PamelaWLucas 4/18/17