New Pencil Happiness In a Nature Blog?

If one admires them
In the yard, they qualify!
Backyard Spectator

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Mixed Media

Liriope grass
Creates art in The Wayback
Framed with cement block

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Rooted, Planted, Given To Friends

Third generation
Sprigs from Obama's ivy
Spreading his kindness

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Human Nature

Yayas trying out
New reclining furniture
Ready for yoga

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Aging Landscape

One limb at a time

Death by bacterial root rot

Aucuba black leaf

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Coffee and Foxtrot

Through kitchen window
Morning quiet graced by a
Pure magnificence

Trotting across yard
Down the curvy garden path
And into the woods

Long, lean, sleek, and red
Black legs, white chest, black-edged ears
White-tipped bushy tail

An urban red fox
Prowls at daybreak, late Jan
His mating season

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Image similar to our fox. Photo credit: Ken Thomas

On My Windowsill

Sprigs pinched from plant that

Grew from sprigs pinched from plant in

Obama's Whitehouse

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Swedish Ivy via Obama

Revealed Through Binoculars

Our red-tailed hawk pair
Sharing lunch on a high branch
Red meat, floppy legs

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Just Passing Through

Edging the birdbath
A ring of cedar waxwings
Masked whistlers flocking

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Winter

Vermont's crystalline
tower on birdbath answers
Georgia's icy rink

Northern birds will melt
snow with their body warmth
to sip a few drops

Southern birds will fly
across town to running creeks
Or find bugs or fruit

Northern family
Will sled down driveway with dog
I will stay inside.

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Morrisville, Vermont:

Photo credit: Lisa Zinn

Decatur, Georgia: