3-25-2021

 

Splash, honk, quack, croak, peep

The language of geese, ducks, frogs

Loud, mesmerizing

3-23-2021

 

A patch of winter 

Somehow lingers in the shade

On this warm spring day

3-22-2021

 

Ten geese in a row

Standing one-footed on ice

Like it’s a sandbar

Marcescence

 

A stand of beech trees

Still holding their withered leaves

At the start of spring

3-19-2021

 

Went looking for ducks

Found a funny looking bird

Turned out 'twas a plant

3-18-2021

 

It smells like spring rain

Humidity and fresh earth

The forecast said snow

3-17-2021

 

Birds whistle and sing

While owl watches silently

Perched over the trail 

3-15-2021

 

An arctic wind blows

Winter reasserts itself

Amid signs of spring

3-14-2021

 

A snake suns itself

Oblivious to humans

Too cold to react?

3-12-2021

 

Another spring day

Crocuses, ants, and a wasp

Nature awakens

3-11-2021

 

60’s and sunny

The grackles are partying

The snow is weeping

3-10-2021

 

The hens are laying

And the woodcocks are dancing

Birds celebrate spring

3-9-2021

 

Snow gives way to mud.

Bulbs sprout. I don’t need my coat.

We’ve made it to spring!

3-8-2021

 

Maple to maple

Tap to tap, collecting sap

It’s sugaring time

3-7-2021

 

Continued from 1-30-2021:

No longer creaking

Tree finally let go and

Cracked all the way through

3-6-2021

 

Melted and frozen 

Infinite shapes of water

Winter ice watching

And a bonus haiku by guest poet Felix:

Stranded in the woods

Thinking that it is autumn

A little sapling

3-5-2021

 

Trail refroze again

Super slippery in spots 

I stayed on my feet 

3-4-2021

 

Why do birches lean

Forgoing the straightest path

Towards sky and sun?

3-3-2021

 

Sun shines on water

Flowing out of Brister’s Spring

And lights it on fire

3-2-2021

 

Yesterday’s puddles

Thin, crackly, slick, transparent

Snow melt refreezes