Patricia Nozell

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Deadwood hemlock tree with several limbs reaching to the side, trunk slightly bent as if swaying standing in afternoon sun

in dappled woodland
deadwood tree dances alive
with life within

#haikuSaturday #haiku #ecology #deadwood #forest #snag #Audubon #Aracadia

Gorgeous!

Orange Lantana flowers

Autumn’s bright oranges
Planted in the springtime’s sunshine
They’re blossoming still
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

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Bur oak leaf turning from green to yellow.

Henri Matisse artwork: The Sheaf (La Gerbe) 1953. Leaf like cut out of several bright colors.

single fallen leaf
a spark of inspiration
Henri's second life

#haikuSaturday #haiku #Matisse #nature #art

(Matisse drew inspiration from nature and it is thought that some of the shapes in his scissor-paintings are reminiscent of oak leaves.)

Lovely!

Iguana on top of a fence surrounded by gnawed vines

Invasive species
Lurching, searching for a snack
Chomps down tender vines.
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

Thank you!

Sign on a telephone pole, “please like and share this post.”

Please like and share this
Post - a kinder, gentler way
To interact.
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

I’m not a teacher or librarian, but heads up to both for this terrific opportunity!

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‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

"A cottage of one's own":

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Thanks for the heads up!

Ah, those precious last sips of summer! Lovely!

Potomac River looking north towards Washington, DC

From a walk earlier this week along the Potomac River in Alexandria, VA:

A haze hangs over
Washington on otherwise
Shining bright morning
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

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So true. I read it long before 1984 as well.

Nineteen eighty-four
Once an imagined future
Now reality
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

Thank you!

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a calico cat
stalks a mouse in a cornfield--
a whisker from fall

short form:
twilight game
of cat and mouse--
rustling corn stalks

Please add a version if you feel like it.

Love the image of a whisker from fall!

Penny Mac hydrangeas photography by Laura Roettiger

September beauty

penny mac hydrangeas shine

reaching for the sky

#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #photography #September

A beauty indeed!

Corner of a backyard flower garden - hostas, hydrangea, sedum, black-eyed susans, coneflower, juniper, daisies

September garden
lingers in late summer sun
cricket song hums

#haikuSaturday #backyard #gardens #entomology

Lovely!

Cormorant in river, wings outstretched

Cormorant warms its
wings prepares to soar as the
mallards watch wonder
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

fields of goldenrod
waving goodbye to summer
autumn approaches
#HaikuSaturday