Remembering Vermont

Green moss, name unknown.
Beauty begs a closer look.
Tiny palm tree tops.

~dkm 104/365

Fall Color in City

Closest I could get
to nature today: tree view
through Piedmont window.

~dkm 103/365

Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

In Her Absence

"No one's been sitting
in my swing," said Mama Bear.
Leaves have collected.

~dkm 102/365

That's No Tennis Ball

Leapt up to racket
from pavement six feet below.
Little gray toady.

Soon jumped down again.
to hop off into the grass.
Must have been frightened.

~dkm 101/365

Jiggety Jig

Hello trees of home.
You're all still green and rustling.
I've missed you, old friends.

With New England trip,
I'll see two autumns this year,
Thank you for waiting.

~dkm 100/365

Home again 

Home again

Inhaling the Mountains

Shalom, Mt.Mansfield.
Never the same, never old.
Till we meet again.

~dkm 99/365

Mt. Mansfield in northern Vermont

Of Stone Walls and Skinny Trees

H&L's  backyard in Vermont

Originally,
Vermont was well forested,
until trees were cleared

to make pasture land
for sheep and dairy cattle.
Late 1800s.

Rocks removed from fields
were stacked as fences to keep
livestock from roaming.

Logging and quarries
became greater industries,
depleting the land.

Not until the mid
1950s was there an
effort to replant.

Pines, birches, maples,
and poplars now rebalance
farms, woods, industry.

Second growth woodlands
explain the thin trunks. Old farms
explain the stone walls.

Rock wall through daughters'
property is probably
(over) a century old.

~dkm 98/365

A Noticing

The tallness of fall,
the narrowness of tree trunks
in these Vermont woods.

~dkm 97/365

The Real Deal

Plump ripe raspberries.
Hand to mouth right off the bush.
A taste of eden.

~dkm 96/365

Eve?

The serpent?

Untended

Gnarled ancient grape vine.
Twisting, growing through tree trunk.
Brute force of nature.

~dkm 95/365

Watsons' Woods, Westmoreland, NH

Inside Out

Close range inquiry.
New Hampshire sugar maple.
Thoroughly orange.

~dkm 94/365

Vanderbilt Rooster

Despite his missing
tail feathers, he carries on
with ample swagger.

Perhaps his feathered
feet lend some credence to his
sashay through the lawn.

~dkm 93/365

Shelburne Farms in Northern Vermont

Autumn vs Politics

Five moments in time.
Waiting, watching, in Vermont.
Same view across month.

~dkm 92/365

Sept 12

Sept 27

Oct 5

Oct 12

Oct 18

Lichen 1

Papery snowflakes
pressing around smooth tree trunk.
Giant polka dots.

Nearly 20K
lichen species in the world
could hijack haiku.

~dkm 91/365

Acadia National Park

Early Risers

First folks in U.S.
to see the bending sunrise.
East-most coast of Maine.

~dkm 90/365

Cadillac Mountain, Acadia Nat'l Park

Red Maple, Young

Maine autumn, sublime.
Cranberry Island, Little.
October sky, blue.

~dkm 89/365

Little Cranberry Island, home of poet Ashley Bryant

Mystery October Ground Cover

Field after field of
alluring crimson carpet.
Lowbush blueberries!

~dkm 88/365

Somewhere along the road...

...from Truro, Nova Scotia to Bar Harbor, Maine.

Cormorant Silhouette

Cloudy eve wing spread.
Nova Scotia pole dance, but
no sun to dry wings.

Sleek black cormorants
recall the children's classic
Story About Ping.

~dkm 87/365

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia

Cormorant flying
through Nova Scotia sunset.
Moment of grandeur.

~dkm 86/365

@ Silver Lining Inn, Cheticamp, NS

Driving in Nova Scotia

Two great, thick-bodied,
broad-winged fliers hanging with
a flock of sleek, dark,

long-necked fishing birds.
The lean showing the great where
to dive for best catch.

Silhouettes at first.
Close look revealed cormorants
and two bald eagles.

~dkm 85/365

Photo credit, Cape Breton Post Cards, Warren Gordon

Fungi Kingdom 14&15

While I find mushrooms
infinitely compelling,
even enchanting,

I didn't set out
to write a haiku about
fungi every day.

So many mushrooms,
So little time for haiku
Of other moments.

~dkm 84/365

5-inch disk in yard of  B&B on P.E.I.

Odd shape on tree along Green Gables trail

"Scope for Imagination"

Autumn leaf color.
Anne of Green Gables' ghost hides
in the "Haunted Wood."

~dkm 83/365

Haunted Wood Trail, Prince Edward Island

Kerfuffle and Clatter

Geese flying southward
over Prince Edward Island
Will they through Georgia?

~dkm 82/365

Fungi Kingdom 13

Like flower petals,
or Avonlea Anne's straw hat,
hiding in the grass.

~dkm 81/365

Rainy day, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Fungi Kingdom 12

Millions of species
of fungi clean up the earth.
This one needs an elf.

~dkm 80/365

Elmore State Park

Fungi Kingdom 11

Quietly, humbly
keeping the ecosystem
in vital balance.

~dkm 79/365

Morrisville, Vermont, Day 1

Day 3