An Earth Day celebration of nature-filled Butler Shores Metropolitan Park along Ladybird Lake in Austin.

Glover Gardens is an aromatherapy district with an abundance of jasmine this spring.

A humble little poem welcoming spring’s call.

I got a new camera for Christmas, the first one ever that has interchangeable lenses that detach and rates a case instead of rambling about in the bottom of my purse like my previous little point-n-shoot models. A respectable camera. A DSLR.  I’m the family…

Spring is breaking out early, and the birds are all over here at Glover Gardens. Check out the portraits of Mama Cardinal, and a haiku for #NaHaiWriMo.

A haiku for a happy mountain place that inspires me, restores peace and tranquility and fuels creativity.

waiting, listening,  little bird perched in the tree – what are you thinking? Copyright 2018, Glover Gardens

Continuing the haiku-per-day in February pledge, here’s an ode to a beautiful aspen  framed by an azure winter sky: reaching to the blue with slender strong arms spread wide you captured my heart Copyright 2018, Glover Gardens

A snowstorm came and went between these two photos, and we were snug and warm in our little cabin, watching.

A longhorn and a calf pose in a pasture in Round Top, Texas.

News about the bloodthirsty tick – ick! I think a tick bite was behind my mysterious illness and hospital stay in 2016, so I feel some empathy for their other prey. The tick was with a feather from a dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous…

This beautiful, gentle, tranquil and philosophical poem is rich with imagery, illustrative of the concept and value of mindfulness, and fills me with hope.

Thanksgiving weekend, eight of us family members spanning three generations packed into my Honda Pilot and headed down to the Bolivar Peninsula where I grew up.  We were on a mission to visit Dad’s favorite restaurant down there, and remember him. It was a perfect…

Mother Nature waters the plants when we’ve been gone awhile; nice that she knows what to do!

Gorgeous fall color from aspen trees right in our own backyard at Little House in the Rockies.

The 1.5 mile loop around Jefferson Lake takes 2 hours and is worth every lovely fall moment.

Haiku and photo honoring a hungry hummingbird in the cool Colorado August.

A single red rose is a star at Glover Gardens.

A nameless poem about living in the moment, and an image that illustrates it.

Cline Ranch Wildlife Area in Colorado presents the awesome majesty of Tarryall Creek; a video provides 17 seconds of pure wonder, the sights and sounds of an indomitable creek that flows beneath the frozen surface.