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Scenes from April 2024

 

2-foto collage: magnolia petals on driveway, forsythias on sidewalk
Hopeful petals fade
April sidewalks always hard
Frosty nights now past

oak tree with giant hole from woodpecker hacked out 3 feet from the ground
Pileated hole
Oaks carpeting the forest
Distant thud-a-thud

grass foreground, old brick factory behind and painted with large rectangle of graffiti mural
Sky-blue graffiti
The old factory wall smiles
With much sun this spring

street glare from low sun on the surface, cars near left curb
Morning sun shines hard
Smooth street but no heat
Until next month comes

riverside rowing competition with close-up of team with narrow boat on shoulders
Teams of eight rowers
Lift the shell and race the boat
Crews all want to win

ornamental cherry in blossom casting its shadow on small white house side
Sakura, such grace
In shadow and in blossom
Brightening the house

spring pond with floating dock from foreground into the distance
April turtles bask
Hibernation now complete
Long warm days ahead

wooden deck stained redwood with morning shadow of railing on the floor
Ev'ning shadows long
Perpendiculars of wood
Geometry bold

mature flowering pear tree covered in white blossoms as car passes by in foreground
Flowering old pear
Many years of bright blossoms
Cheering passers-by

freshly mown school grounds showing diagonal lines of mower
Time to mow again
Winter slumber gone
Dreams of summer come

wetland boardwalk damaged by fallen tree lying across it
Big tree hits boardwalk
Strong wind then woody thunder
Decades of tree rings

city park and benches with eclipse watchers looking up
April 8 eclipse
Bringing watchers out to see
The daytime darken

close-up shows foreground dandelion and background cement wall in painted mural
Lone dandelions
Marooned by roadway and grass
Send seeds away soon

daffodil blooms seen from ground looking up to the blue sky
Towering tall daffs
Reach the sky from worm's vantage 
Blend of yellow blue

early morning ice skin on the birdbath
Not yet the cold nights
Give way to frostless springtime
The birdbath icy

large mug of black coffee and big chocolate chip cookie
Sugar and bitter
Hot coffee and chocolate-chip
Go well together

Catkins gently rock
Springtime coaxing all to bloom
Hot weather ahead

Open to all bees
Warming in April's sunlight
Bobbing turbans bright

video freeze-frame of city deer in the wetland park during early morning
Deer one leads the way
Others come from the bare trees
Regrouping again


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