Three haiku that celebrate autumn, along with the lyrics and a recording of the lovely old standard “Autumn Leaves”.

The cleanup begins, with the growls of chain saws joining the incessant blaring of 100-decibel generator engines in a post-hurricane duet that anyone in the hurricane belt will sadly recognize as the sounds of summer.

An onomatopoeia poem in response to a dVerse Poets Pub prompt and the seemingly never-ending and scarily violent storms happening right now in our area.

An article in the latest issue of The Shoofly Magazine beautifully captures the seemingly oppositional characteristics of nature and our relationship with it – peaceful but unpredictable, soothing, but sometimes dangerous – and brings back memories of falling trees.

Winter will make way for spring, in many ways.

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…

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

The Great Houston storms of April, 2016 wreaked havoc for many and are keeping insurance adjusters busy.  I posted some pictures of our experience with trees falling on the house on April 18th (most likely from a tornado), and then the rain and winds revisited…