FROM SUMMER

GARDENS AT OLANA, HUDSON NY

With cooler days and even cooler nights, summer continues to fade in my memory.

I found myself wondering what I had done with my summer days and checked back on my calendar. It seems I was busy doing this and that and a lot of running errands and too many trips to Albany for auto repairs. I did get to attend a writing workshop, which I so looked forward to each week. I managed to attend most photography club meetings and got together with my crochet and knitting group. I also took a ceramics class that proved to be pretty interesting. But, to reassure myself that I was actually out in the summer air, I had to check my photo files. I’ll share some pictures with you here. Enjoy the view!  

 CURIOUS HUMMINGBIRD

A POSING BEAUTY

DAPPLED LIGHT THROUGH THE TREES

AND ON TO THE FERNS

CEDAR GROVE, THOMAS COLE HOUSE
CATSKILL, NY

LOVELY TABLE SETTING BY THE FIREPLACE 

THE ARTIST'S PATH

UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
HUNTER, NY

DEER IN MY SON'S BACKYARD
NEW MILFORD, NJ
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SUMMER FLOWERS ON THE FRONT DECK

MY ROCK GARDEN
WITH MORE GARDEN THAN ROCKS

AND MY LATEST VISITOR TO MY BACKYARD,
BIG BOY

PARAGON

There’s a highflying hawk 

that soars beneath the daytime moon

backlit by the brightest of sky

broad wings rise and glide in silhouette

is it a paragon-an advocate of war

that looms over our heads

with politics aside and keen sight

the hawk knows what it's searching for  

SEPTEMBER

 Each year, summer always seems too brief as Memorial Day and Labor Day move closer together. On spring and summer mornings, you can hear flocks of birds arriving, but now, on their journey south, in search for a warmer climate, they leave the thinning trees. In September, you can feel and hear the summer receding before you actually see it. Each morning, there’s a lilt of new weather; it sings a little louder as September ages and flies right into your day. Before you realize it, you’re cutting pumpkins then stirring that warm comfort soup that waits inside your winter kitchen.