Challenge Met

Last haiku of year 

Sunrise over sandcastle

Outer Banks morning  

Reflection on what

has been and what is to come

Here’s to The Wayback  

~dkm 52/52

Oh No!

Not the goldfinches!

Take the squirrels or chipmunks. Please. 

But not my songbirds!  

Taking feeders down, 

Cooper’s hawk twins of back yard, 

until you move on  

~dkm 51/52

Vulture-esque

Bald card'nals again

Due to summer molt or mites?

Both theories abound

Both report no harm

The feathers return come Fall

Still, an oddity

Black head skin, ear holes

Ordinarily unseen

Ugly but cool

-dkm 50/52

Cemetery Visitor

Spied crawling on back

of cemetery bench where

my friend and I sat

White-marked tussock moth

caterpillar, infamous

for its stinging hairs

Pity the child who

can't resist carrying her 

spectacular find

~dkm 49/52

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgyia_leucostigma

 

That Friends May Know Them Too

Garden plaque arrived

Sally Green Camellia Walk

My younger sister

Beds named in years past

For ancestors, descendants

In my mind alone

A friend said, you should 

label your honorary 

gardens, so I did

~dkm 48/52

Contentment

 A deep cup of tea

A seven hundred page book

A free afternoon

~dkm 47/52

July's Garden

 Weeding in the rain

A pleasure unexpected

Cool on sweaty skin

~dkm 46/52