One of my favorites — Peter Henry Emerson, Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886.

Whatever Melissa writes is just kind on the heart, good for my soul. ✨

snow shadow quietude

Foguary. #yyj #fog #fogdaysofwinter

Agate appreciation post. 😍

This will be as gorgeous as sunlight on the sea! ✨

Homeward bound after another trip to the mainland, to help my elderly mother with urgent medical appointments. It’s very hard to see someone you love navigate such struggles. Today I took her for a seaside drive, and afterwards she said softly, “I miss walking.” 🥺

Read beautiful poetry by supporting Minnesota, and a Minneapolis-based publisher….this is such a hope-filled, heart-full offer! 🌸🪻🌼 #MinnesotaStrong #MoreFlowers #MoreLight ✨

Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong. - Brianna Wiest

'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt

Saw a Western Meadowlark yesterday at Clover Point. I understand this is an uncommon sighting here. I feel pretty lucky to have crossed paths with one! #yyj #blurrydogwalkingphoto 😊

Morning. 🖼️ Shozo Ozaki

I've always liked the 'Bridled' form of Guillemot, but to get a photo of 2 together on Inner Farne in 2019 was special!. #SuperSeabirdSunday

Thrifted a vintage hand-crank egg beater and it is sooooo satisfying!

Swept up by these one minute story bites! 🏴‍☠️ (and Jenny’s narrative voice is so soothing)

HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026! Image: 9SP IG page

I believe the sea just gifted me the sky. 天 ✨

So very pleased to have a cherita in this powerful Renee Nicole Good anthology. Special thanks to #FinHall for curating this quickly-done collection. All proceeds to benefit Renee's family. More details forthcoming. #poetry

For all dog-loving writers. 🤎 I bookmarked so many resonant passages.

Crab for dinner. 🦀

washed right up on the beach nearby

I've been in a funk recently, really worried about the weeks / months ahead; so today, I sent out a newsletter that felt quite vulnerable, & the way the writing community have jumped to my support has as always far exceeded anything I deserve ❤️❤️❤️ prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/starting-t...

Beautiful things in brick alleys. #myhometown #yyj

Yesterday while moving furniture for donation, I slipped and hit my head hard, then spent New Year’s Eve with a bag of frozen corn on my forehead. 🌽🧊 😄

Magical filter— #Delightful view of the world A New Year's Day gift Happy New Year to all! ✨️ #vss365 #delight #haiku

“A life is looped yarn and slipped knots, chains and accidents.” I love the way Melissa sees the world in metaphor. This will loop through my thoughts today. 🧶

That sunrise beckoned me to join the fun! Thanks, Matt, for inspiring me to write 99 new words. #microsarehard

A spark of joy to end the year…my haiku debut in Frogpond. ✨ I didn’t always submit, but enough times over the years to make this acceptance very sweet indeed!

"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come." - Leonardo da Vinci

Took the orange I squeezed for breakfast, the twine saved from opened gifts, and made these little feeders for the winter birds. 🧡

Enchanted by this handmade Christmas card from my Swedie’s sister…the love and whimsy she stitched into it. 💚

Wind-ruffled Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker #birds

“I was hiking alone, which I often do, which I always enjoy. But today … today, I wanted a snowball fight. And you can’t have a snowball fight alone.” ❄️😉 A winter story to warm your heart by Melinda Brasher in @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/to-the-young...

Scotland based UK artist Joan Eardley (1921 – 1963) painting 'Winter Sea' in 1960 #WomensArt

Good morning, Vancouver.

A SOLSTICE ANALEMMA: Italian photographer Paolo Bardelli stitched together 48 pictures spanning 12 months to reveal the analemma over Lake Varese. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

My friends…on this winter solstice eve, in this moment, the world has been made right again. ✨

Should I return to the bakery tomorrow, and spring for the pastry that I foolishly did not buy?

My son Steven, when he was here on earth, and as I like to think of him now, in his other life: climbing rocks in wild places, letting waterfalls rush his skin, so full of wonder and fully alive.✨💚

✨A new episode has arrived!✨ Where does the Time Pirate go on a Friday night? Why, her favorite place, of course! Watch ‘Episode 3: Le Buffle of ‘The Time Pirate Who Waits Ashore’ to find out more. 🕰️ youtu.be/i8sXqjaTDJo #thetimepiratewhowaitsashore

I stumbled onto a small herd of Icelandic ponies near Gimli yesterday. They were a bit far from the road and the weather was nasty, but I managed to capture this lovely moment.

Oh my gosh, I cannot put this book down!😮 #booksky #memoir #ohmyheart

A cozy night for Lohikeitto (Finnish salmon soup).

Another snow day❄️❄️❄️

thin ice - I hear my other life #haiku #poetry

On the quiet season.🌌 Thank you to The Listening Eye for publishing this in their 2024-2025 Health Issue. www.kent.edu/listeningeye

On the quiet season.🌌 Thank you to The Listening Eye for publishing this in their 2024-2025 Health Issue. www.kent.edu/listeningeye

Everything had been donated to the animal shelter months ago. I was doing okay until I found my sweet girl’s holiday collar in the Christmas box. 🥺❤️

Incredibly delighted to receive this gorgeous handmade art in the mail today, as part of the second prize package! Every envelope and enclosure was decorated with care and love. I could not ask for a better home for my haiku poem. 🌸

My best friend visited and fell in love with Nova Scotia. Her retirement dream is to drive across Canada and explore the Maritimes. I made her this gift to keep her dreams in sight. ♥️