Happy Spring

Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
... comes to wake-up and endow with the spirit of life...

Woodland Spirits

Brooks Woodland Preserve, Massachusetts
 
The woodlands of Massachusetts...
 Once the homes of Indians and farmlands of colonial settlers...
  so special to saunter through these lands and rejoice with characters and sounds of reborn wilderness... 

Early Spring Bloom

 Cambridge, Massachusetts

I love maple trees... famously coloring our autumns...
   and with their early bloom, among the first to greet our springs...

Early Spring Walk

Mass Audubon Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

Feel the spring?... not exactly,
   except for burbles of vivifying streams
    and the teeny, almost invisible leaves being born in the brushing distance... 

... and the Reds...

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Northern Flicker in the earthly balance with the sleepy meadow...
   steps left, steps right, turns back and at once the reds jump out, calling for spring...

His Latin name has this word Auratus which means golden...
   Looking closely at his plumage, I sense the meaning...
    the patterns where each plume has a golden place and innate beauty of nature comes to light...

        ... for whose eyes?...

Last Call

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Frozen tip-tops of hanging branches sculpted along shadowy edges of the pond,
     in splendor with light and water... just for today... 

In Full Voice

Hale Reservation, Westwood, Massachusetts

Not much is going on in the woods, seems sleepy...
   and then we stumble upon this choir, in full voice...
   the whole place is singing,
     even those still asleep can hear her songs, for the spring has arrived...