Nature

Before the fires poem: Three Things Challenge

Before the fireseveryone isaloneseparated byimpassable fences Wildfires charge inhomes tornaparttrees aflamebarriers disintegrate In the aftermathhelping handstogethergive hopecommunities reborn Three Things…

2 months ago

Road to Frenchglen: Monochrome Monday

Here is an infrared photograph of the road to Frenchglen, Oregon. This road travels around the south end of Steens…

3 months ago

Where buffalo roam: Wordless Wednesday

Where buffalo roam, Custer State Park, South Dakota Wordless Wednesday Bend Branches always appreciates your comments and likes. Comments may…

3 months ago

Northern scorpion: Monochrome and Macro Monday

I saw this northern scorpion, Paruroctonus boreus, in my laundry room a couple of days ago. I was barefoot and…

3 months ago

Drawing and photo of a palm: First Friday Art

Today I'm sharing a drawing and photo of a palm tree. I saw this Chinese Windmill Palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, while…

3 months ago

waterfalls: Water Water Everywhere

waterfalls may be heavily veiled or as light as lace they may end in a rainbow or split in indecision…

3 months ago

Pretty rocks and fossils: Wordless Wednesday

Pretty rocks and fossils in Bend, Oregon Wordless Wednesday Bend Branches always appreciates your comments and likes. Comments may not…

3 months ago

Purple & orange flower border: Friday Flowers

Purple & orange flower border near the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon Friday Flowers Bend Branches always appreciates your comments…

4 months ago

green leaves nonet poem: LAPC

green leaves unfold in dawn’s early lightreaching for the warmth of summerheart-shaped, oval, linear,thick, slender, featherybending and swayingcrooning ancientmelodiesuntildusk Lens-Artist…

4 months ago

Catch a wave cloud: Weekend Sky

Earlier this week, I saw this catch a wave cloud over my house. The curving shapes on the upper surface…

4 months ago