blizzard warning – the neighbor’s tractor trades a plow for a plow #dailyhaikuprompt | plow #smallpoems

a rusty t-post on the fence line of an abandoned field #mobilephotography #rural #Rust #Time

early March – some lightning with that snow #dailyhaikuprompt | lightning #smallpoems

about softness – this moonlight through the swelling maple buds #dailyhaikuprompt | moon #smallpoems

porcupine – my dog and a lesson about space #dailyhaikuprompt | quill #smallpoems

a fiddlehead weaves and waves – jigs then reels #dailyhaikuprompt | fiddlehead #smallpoems

While looking through some projects from the past, I found this animated poem I made for a project our school's excellent art teacher created during the 1st fall of the pandemic. She asked educators to "make some art" to hang for a month in a local coffee shop. She wanted to show the middle […]

flakes of snow darken the twilight #dailyhaikuprompt | twilight #smallpoems

junk pile culvert #Photography #junk

last sip of coffee – temporary nirvana #dailyhaikuprompt | nirvana #smallpoems #Coffee

in the backwater – upturned buckets filled with ice fishermen #dailyhaikuprompt | salmon (usually walleye) #smallpoems

sweater weather – skeins of geese ply the March sky #dailyhaikuprompt | geese #smallpoems

a teetering season – next the wetlands filled with catkins and blackbirds #dailyhaikuprompt | catkins #smallpoems

early March inside the cardinal’s song – new moon #dailyhaikuprompt | new moon #smallpoems

#analogphotography #architecture #blackandwhite #cityscape #photography #tombzz #photo

A cardboard menagerie. Clockwise starting top left: dog, bear, cat, raccoon? #magicinthemundane I volunteer at our local food pantry. We get food from local groceries. I think the ends of the boxes look like animals. I"m pretty sure the people I work with think I"m nuts.

a string of crows unravels the night – first light #dailyhaikuprompt | morning #smallpoems

Hiking at Burren National Park, County Clare, Ireland. It is a fascinating place to visit, filled with plants from many different areas. #texturetuesday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite

this warm for March evening at the forest’s edge an owl questions everything #dailyhaikuprompt | evening #smallpoems

a pasture gate moves gently in the wind – the sound of geese overhead #dailyhaikuprompt | flying geese #smallpoems

late winter dusk – the last flight of geese settle on Canoe Creek #dailyhaikuprompt | flying geese #smallpoems

enough to know a roadside where wild roses bloom #dailyhaikuprompt | wild rose #smallpoems

the road from nowhere to nowhere #rural #Iowa #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #monochromemonday

insight a cloud bank parts for the sun #dailyhaikuprompt | blue sky #smallpoems

on the fresh snow a junco writes her story in cuneiform #dailyhaikuprompt | fresh #smallpoems

false tranquility of distance – the powerful always farthest from the suffering #dailyhaikuprompt | tranquil #smallpoems

once I saw snowflakes stacked five deep on a twig #smallpoems #gratitude #verticalpoem

under an eagle screech the soft red of willows #dailyhaikuprompt | buds #smallpoems

#photography #analogphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #minimalism #tombzz

#blackandwhite #monochrome #minimalism #photography #architecture #tombzz #fineart

#photography #architecture #blackandwhite #monochrome #urbanphotography #tombzz

“Crepuscular Hour” at my house: Milo and Cora watch for deer in the apple trees and valley. #dogsofmastodon

buried in mud – the squeaks of spring peepers #dailyhaikuprompt | frog #smallpoems

yesterday the oaks’ east then their west sides yellow #dailyhaikuprompt | yellow #smallpoems

Cora next to some snowshoe tracks from an earlier walk. #dogsofmastodon #Dogs #Snow #LandscapePhotography

when your building is all window | an abandoned greenhouse #fensterfreitag #windowfriday #Photography

the view through the inside of a rack of used tires in an alley #StreetPhotography #alleywalk #BlackAndWhite

vines, a window grate, and a stucco wall as seen in an alley #StreetPhotography #Photography #alleywalk #magicinthemundane

out with the bad air ... #StreetPhotography #alleywalk #magicinthemundane #minimalism

Old barn, roof and siding #texturetuesday #mobilephotography #rural

#photography #architecture #blackandwhite #monochrome #tombzz

for an instant the brilliance of pelicans on an azure river #MastoPrompt | pelicans #smallpoems

at the fence line deep snow drifts – no place for the blackbirds to rest #dailyhaikuprompt | blackbird #smallpoems

icicles on a cloudy day

mist over the creek a cold morning follows the snow #dailyhaikuprompt | mist #smallpoems

arriving early -- before the blizzard a bluebird on the fence #dailyhaikuprompt | robin (bluebird) #smallpoems

Scorpius caught in the oak branches – winter evening #dailyhaikuprompt | clear air #smallpoems

each day the walk in the woods with the dogs – a self-seeding poem #dailyhaikuprompt | seed #smallpoems

#photography #landscape #blackandwhite #nostalgia #monochrome #tombzz