31 August 2024 (golden hour)

golden hour

the chickadees’ dee-dee-dees

spotlight a merlin

30 August 2024 (sunlight)

sunlight starlight . . .

question marks cluster

on fallen apples

29 August 2024 (morning chill)

morning chill unsettling calls of blue jays

28 August (family farm)

family farm

a quartet of crows surveys

the just-mown hayfield

27 August 2024 (sun filtered)

sun filtered

through ash leaves . . .

magical thinking

26 August 2024 (morning thunder)

morning thunder

a patch of Queen Anne’s lace

shakes with rain

25 August 2024 (a meadowhawk returns)

a meadowhawk returns

to the perch he flushed from —

bent goldenrod

24 August 2024 (what’s left)

what’s left of summer

a catbird scolds

in the pokeweed

23 August 2024 (on a quest)

on a quest

for the black butterfly

blackberries

22 August 2024 (believing)

believing

the impossible

pixie cup lichen

21 August 2024 (sea-worn pebbles)

sea-worn pebbles

held by sea-worn bedrock

long-distance marriage