anole stretching sunbathing on verdant leaf watching me watch him. Nancilynn Saylor 2016 Photo in the garden
Tag: nature
Soft spring morning
No alarm this morning awakened by only soft dappled light streaming through the white curtains Grab coffee- warm creamy and comforting, then out to admire the urban garden we aspire to- rather than lawn that must be maintained. Small chickadees play chase between the birdfeeders and the tall ash tree from the neighbor’s yard, while a squirrel […]
The face in the mirror
My face is rumpled… a splash of sunlight and smiles, of freckles and porcelain… of promises broken and fulfilled of motherhood and loss of motherhood and disappointment of love and of ecstasy and constant sorrow of the woodlands and the meadow of the shoreline and the sea of the firmament and the cosmos my face […]
Spring garden-fresh dirt
Spring garden moves swiftly into Summer Peas are gone and beans are plentiful tomatoes turn gloriously red I must pick every day… Every other day or so new cucumbers for the table Eggplants, two kinds, are coming along nicely Okra taking on height… Romeo resisted my ordering new soil. I resist saying “I told you […]