30 April 2018

It is Spring

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Leaves unfurling into billion breaths...
Goose babies seeing the world with newborn eyes... wonders of a young leaf, a blade of grass...
Lotuses rising to the pond's surface...
Just about arrived... with twig in her beak... coming home...
Calling chitters... waving Spring...

Fresh Pond: ... unfurling into billion breaths...

Fresh Pond: ... seeing the world with newborn eyes...

Fresh Pond: ... wonders of a young leaf...

Fresh Pond: ... or a blade of grass...

Fresh Pond: ... and the water life...

Fresh Pond: ... with mom and dad...

Fresh Pond: ... rising to the pond's surface...

Fresh Pond: ... a twig in her beak... coming home...

Fresh Pond: ... calling chitters... waving Spring...

24 April 2018

The Baby is Born

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

CAUTION yellow ribbons... enclosing wooded area. Passers-by with cameras. Rangers moving around...
What is going on?... BABY OWL. Where?...
THERE... a ball of fluffy feathers... knows we are all here... watching...
She fell from the nest. Cannot fly just yet... And mother is up on the tree... observing...

Fresh Pond: ... yellow ribbons... what is going on?... baby owl... where?...

Fresh Pond: ... there...

Fresh Pond: ... a ball of fluffy feathers...

Fresh Pond: ... knows we are all here... watching...



Fresh Pond: ... and mother is observing...

Fresh Pond: ... stay well...

20 April 2018

Is it Spring?

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Soaking wet... cold... 4°C (39°F) ... And she is flowering...

Cambridge: ... soaking wet... cold...

Cambridge: ... and she is flowering...

Cambridge: ... is it spring?

08 April 2018

The Way of Nature

Black's Nook, Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Swans on the Pond... Cleaning their feathers... Methodical. Meticulous... Their long necks twisting and turning. Reaching the most distant vanes... Splashing the water... Amid all the motions, sparkles sliding down the plumes... Flapping wings... The Way of Nature. Tao is staring at me...

Black's Nook: ... cleaning feathers...

Black's Nook: ... methodical...

Black's Nook: ... meticulous...

Black's Nook: ... harmonious...

Black's Nook: ... amid all the motions...

Black's Nook: ... the way of nature...