High-contrast cat. #cats

Adventuring and monarch butterflies. #monarchs #butterflies #blog #travel #adventure annemichael.blog/2025/09/28/a...

🌱 While doing garden cleanup I chanced upon this helpful toady. Yes, poetry lovers I thought of Marianne Moore. #gardens #toads #mariannemoore #poems Poetry by Marianne Moore - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/cB1iwSoaIfUu...

🌱 🦋 #tithonia #garden #butterfly

Milkweed bugs/beetles. #beetles #bugs #milkweed

annemichael.blog/2025/09/21/p... #blog #memory #proust #youth #poems

Drought in September. I'm taking the veg garden apart. First photo: July. 2nd photo, last day of summer. 🌱 #vegetable #gardening #drought #equinox

Upside-down bee snooze. 🌱 #bees #zinnia

Seed pods, very artsy. Some magnolia variety near my mom's. 🌱 #seedpod #magnolia #autumn

Somethings are buzzing in the weeping linden. 🌱 🐝 #Hornets #nest

He's eating windfalls from our pear tree and clearly sees me as no threat. 🌱🍐 #whitetail #buck #gardening

Bee, lazy in the late mini roses. 🌱🌹 #bee #pollinators #rose

🌱 I'm still loving my late summer annuals! Meanwhile, finally getting around to drafting poems. #gardening #flowers #summer #poems

🌱 first tithonia of the season--very late this year! #gardening #tithonia

🌱 This is what happens when people in eastern Pennsylvania plant bamboo as a screen. The bamboo invades and is super hard to contain. Very pretty, in its way, but a bit of a thug. #bamboo #gardening

🌱 That's some mullein that planted itself in our walkway... #nativeplants #mullein

Thank you, Syzygy journal, for nominating my poem for Best of the Net. #poets #poetry #bestofthenet

Kousa dogwood fruit. 🌱 #September #dogwood

Complexity abounds. annemichael.blog/2025/09/06/i...

Hot pepper (caliente!!) & cherry tomatoes. 🌱 #harvest #peppers

Pear tree. 🌱 🍐 #gardens #pear #fruit

Today's meadow denizen. #insectlife #meadow 🌱

Gardening 🌱and poetry #poems&poetry #prosepoems #writing #gardening annemichael.blog/2025/08/27/w...

Two kinds of gold.🌱

The ceramic head on the porch swing, with tuxedo cat. #cats #ceramics

Blue skies (& clouds). #bluesky #clouds #sky #meadow #summer #lehighvalleypa

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I can't news today. Ugh. So, making tomato sauce and taking a walk. Not at the same time.

I admit I find online Boggle soothing.

The gardens 🌱🌱 at New York's Ft. Tryon Park. #anemone #hydrangeas #bees

Loving late summer. 🌱 #sunflowers #morningglory #august

Ooh, loving my summer annuals! 🌱 #sunflowers #morningglory #zinnias

Faded lacecap hydrangeas with buoyant hosta Royal Standard. 🌱 #hosta #hydrangeas #garden 🌱

Writing, rejections, reasons, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. annemichael.blog/2025/08/18/1...

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🌱 🌻 Sky high. #sunflowers #garden

Bounty. #garden #gardenbounty #sungold #cucumbers 🌱

Heaven, hell, & halos | ann e michael share.google/9JFP0BPE8d0P...

I love cleome's alien weirdness. 🌱 #cleome

Pears, peppers. 🌱 #garden #fruit

🌱 Joe-Pye weed, in the meadow and up close and personal with a bumblebee. #garden #meadow #joepyeweed #bee #augustinpa

#snapdragon 🌱

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Traveling head finds shade in the vegetable garden. #ceramic #installationart #garden

Blood Tree Literature has a print anthology for issue 15. Happy to say I've a poem in it! Blood Tree Literature share.google/RWz8ylEhVvUt... #literary #anthology #poem #bloodtreeliterature

Goschenhoppen Folk Festival August 8 and 9, Perkiomenville, PA. The Goschenhoppen Historians • #history #summer #festival #Goschenhoppen share.google/PSXjBRIgqy4h...

Scary ice cream man, Coopersburg, PA. #icecream #summertime #weirdbranding

Stanley Kunitz, "The System,"(ca 1971). #stanleykunitz #poem #poetsandpoetry