After rain, sunshine:
tomorrow, there will be
mushrooms for breakfast
Tag: weather
all the yellow birds of autumn
A gust of wind tears
yellow birds and russet butterflies
from autumn trees
or, possibly:
A gust of wind
tears all the yellow birds
and russet butterflies of autumn
from their treetop perches
moving mountains
After the storm,
the river drops to reveal
new mudbanks;
slowly, the mountains
are coming to us.
(No, there are no mudbanks visible in the photo, which is actually the point at which my local river is dammed to form a reservoir. But hopefully it brightens the page a bit.)
autumn
It’s the first day of autumn, and last night there was a harvest moon. That makes me think I should be posting some poetry, but I can’t find anything particularly suitable.
Still, the weather really is quite autumnal today, and if it stays this way, it wouldn’t surprise me if the swallows started gathering early for migration. I’ve had telephone wires and communications on my mind a lot recently, so maybe this will fit the bill:
Continue reading “autumn”
a knotty solution
Well, the problem with my phone and internet connection was finally identified: apparently you can’t hope for a telephone to work when the cable is totally unattached.
I have my suspicions about which of the ‘technical’ guys was responsible, as there have been no more high winds since last week when it was fixed temporarily, and I don’t think the eagles that the village is proud to claim have started frequenting the area have been trying to perch in my orchard, so I can’t blame them.
Perhaps the most worrying thing is that the photo shows what is considered to be a solution. Just what do they think is going to happen to those exposed wires the next time we have a storm?
don't confuse the narrator 