Spring sprang a leak

 Road under water:

Heron,

 

 

Osprey

 

 fly over

Fishing the flooded

 

 WOB

Electrifying April

 3 AM

300m/s

Lightning flashes, Thunder roars!

Cuckoo seeks shelter,

 

Warm air over ice

Snow melts

 The fishin' is good

 But "hair" raising?

 The consequences of too much hot air:

 

 We don't have to heat:

The times are changing quickly:

 

Between mid November and mid April 4 electrical storms, several more heavy rain storms and more than 4m of snow - flooding? 

Soon? 

 

Stay tuned.

Looney,
WOB 

An old Haiku revisited

 I am saddened or disappointed in the lack of response to my haiku challenge. I am going to explain one of mine and then withdraw. It is the one that I was told I could not have written!

That would be number 2:

Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this. 

It refers to a memory of an event 60 years ago when Vicki taught me how to play the Eriskay Love Lilt on the piano, all on the black keys since it is in the pentatonic scale.

 

The last line of the haiku paraphrases a line in the song:

 

 How could this sentiment be AI?

 The challenge then is to find the others I wrote and the 2 AI wrote:

 The poems have been odered alphabetically by 1st line.
 
#1
Coastal windswept home,
Pink spheres on slender stems sway,
Salt air, sun-drenched life.
 
#2
Rainbows on hill tops,
Puffins reigning supreme.
Glad am I for this.
 
#3
Sea Pinks along the cliffs
Nesting with Puffins, Fulmars,
Nature Lovers smile.
 
#4
Sea pinks on the rock,
Fair Isle coast in salty wind,
Pink cushions hold fast.
 
#5
Sea pinks shimmering -
Dewy droplets lovers shed.
Fragile strength embrace.

WOB 

The Aura of Orillia

 Wonder how places get their names?

 

 Wonderment more:

 Do these ring a bell?

 

 Happy Easter,

 

WOB 

Witness to a MIracle

 In the Spring of 2022(?) Sharon and Ron invited me over to see a Skunk cabbage, I saw it as a mild curiosity. However, a few months later I was in the high Arctic and was shown plants, small biotopes, where the plants managed to raise the temperature by many degrees above freezing. So I was anxious to see the Skunk cabbage again. Yesterday I was given the opportunity thanks to Sharon and Ron who made a trail in the snow for me to follow. And yes, "Volker" there was a lot of "Schnee von Gestern" on the ground.

 There are 2 leaves, maybe 15cm tall, apparently poking through the snow of comparable depth.

 

The next photos are taken from directly over the plant(s) and you can see for yourselves just how warm this biotope must be:

 

 Witness to a Miracle:

Exothermic life

Mother Nature excels here

Abundant displays 

 

 

WOB 

Winter returned - snowed during the night - no books in sight

 Little brown bird

Feasting off the green table

Until Winter comes

 Coffee and tea

Reduce dementia risk

If you remember!

 

WOB