Rocky Ways

 Borderland State Park, Sharon, Massachusetts

Marking the points

 along the paths of their stories with the woods.

 

 From long ago.

  

 Where each step 

   reveals the character

  and touches underneath physique of the hill.

 While a stream finds the best way...

Into the Early Spring

Ward Reservation, Andover, Massachusetts

First green leaves, 

 amidst browns, 

   where muddy prevails.

 

  There! 

 I see a bluebird on a branch. 

   Seems the time is right

 to bring the colors with the wings into the woods... 

Water

Noanet Woodlands, Dover, Massachusetts

Snow has left.

 Awakening streams are infusing the woods.

  Crisscrossing, 

    jumping over rocks, 

   rushing through the narrows.

  Burble, burble, burble...

     and I listen... 

Where are They ?

Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts

Warm days have arrived.

 Snowflakes are dissolving, not leaving, just changing.

  Do I see them ? 

  In the rising bubbles of the melting crystals.

  In the unveiled earth patches.

    

 Watering the woods.

  Do I see them in this baby pine ?... 

Traces

Estabrook Woods, Concord, Massachusetts

A few days after the blizzard.

 Soft drifts are at rest

  and

 the trees are standing, being themselves.

  

 Others, 

  tracing where paths do not appear 

   unless already passed.

  

 Stepping on someone's footprints, in the hope that they will hold. 

  Sometimes they do,

    very often they don't 

 and my boot sinks into the hole...