Admiring the irises at #SouthernMiss during the #FayKaigler festival #JoyScavengerHunt

Good morning from Hattiesburg! I’m looking forward to presenting at the #KaiglerFestival2026. #JoyScavengerHunt #Mississippi #VisitMississippi

Admiring the texture of emerging oak leaves #JoyScavengerHunt

Native azalea blooms for you this morning #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday: dangling catkins swaying drowsy, scatter, drift bird calls fill the air #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

It’s a Good Friday indeed! #JoyScavengerHunt

A shy woods violet for you this morning #JoyScavengerHunt

A pincushion flower. What will you spot on your wonder-filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

Wild ferns, springing up out of the forest floor #JoyScavengerHunt

A galaxy of snowball viburnum to start your week #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday: fresh fig leaf presses skyward from weathered, bare branch beams fall warm and kind #poetry #haiku

Azaleas in time for the weekend. Happy Friday! #JoyScavengerHunt

Camellia for you this morning #JoyScavengerHunt

Morning sun on a pawpaw bloom. What will you spot on your wonder-filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

A persistent fern sprouting under a wooden step #JoyScavengerHunt

Japanese maples embracing spring #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #HaikuSaturday and the dawning of spring: roving robin grips simple snips of sod and straw soft store for a home #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

I had a fantastic time at the @SCASL conference presenting on place-based inquiry and brainstorming with amazing librarians #SCASL26 #librariansrock #AASL

Cherry blooms to usher in the weekend #JoyScavengerHunt

Good morning from Columbia! My inspiration for a day of presenting to and learning from rock star librarians at the #SCASL conference

A hyacinth peeking out from its sheltering leaves, carrying bits of the dirt that nourished it into being. What will you spot on your wonder – filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

Admiring pattern and texture at the #BentonConventionCenter #JoyScavengerHunt

Good morning from Winston-Salem! I’m looking forward to presenting at the North Carolina Reading Association conference #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday: weather warmer, days widen into sunset blaze since the quince arrived #poetry #haiku

Cherry blossoms for the weekend#JoyScavengerHunt

A camellia for you this morning #JoyScavengerHunt

A winking daffodil. What will you spot on your wonder-filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

Morning dew and a shy periwinkle #JoyScavengerHunt

After the thunderstorm, the rain lily appears, open to the possibilities of the week #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday: first forsythia flowers flutter, flicker, bow birdsongs raise in praise #poetry #haiku

Hyacinth for you as we head into the weekend #JoyScavengerHunt

A camellia bloom cradled in its leaves #JoyScavengerHunt

A Chickasaw plum tree blooming. What will you spot on your wonder-filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

A woods violet this morning #JoyScavengerHunt

Twin crocuses for you this morning #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday with a poem about the anticipation of spring planting that the combination of daffodils blooming and our growing stack of seed catalogs (and seed order arrivals) inspires: daffodil dreaming seed catalog scheming soon soft sweet soil to plant #poetry #haiku

Good morning from Fort Mill, SC! #JoyScavengerHunt

And then, the crocuses arrived #JoyScavengerHunt

Another re-blooming orchid this morning. What will you spot on your wonder – filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

Irises emerging from the forest floor on a #TranquilTuesday morning #JoyScavengerHunt

Tulip rising to meet the week #Joyscavengerhunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday: winter-wrapped too long petals pressing softly swel- ling paperbush buds #poetry #haiku

Bright pansies on a Friday morning #JoyScavengerHunt

Good morning from Jackson! #JoyScavengerHunt #visitms

A profile of a wren feasting on suet on February morning. What will you spot on your wonder – filled Wednesday? #JoyScavengerHunt

Good morning from Florida #JoyScavengerHunt

Months of coddling, careful watering, rotating, and misting, and, voila, our speckled orchid has rebloomed #JoyScavengerHunt

Celebrating #haikuSaturday with this ode to the Lenten rose that sprouted in a crack between our stone steps: slender slice of soil enough tough seed reaches roots blooming into light #poetry #haiku #grit #resilience

Sunshine on my first daffodil of the season. Happy Friday! #JoyScavengerHunt

Kalanchoe for you this morning #JoyScavengerHunt