Nature… This is the Day Called Waiting for Bees 12 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 This is the day called waiting-for-bees:first warm noon after months of rain.Oregon’s oldest apple tree explodes in white:thousands of petals, wind-tousled, ask.Buzz-absent air befuddles the quiet:this tree should be loud…
Nature… The Honeybee Scout 12 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 The Honeybee Scout The honeybee colony was in great danger. Their supply of sweet nectar and pollen had fallen dangerously low and if the Honeybee Scouts couldn’t find new flower…
Nature… Bee on a Crocus 12 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Patricia Joynes Patricia Joynes has centered her nature photography from her home in Boone, North Carolina. Her photos have appeared in Blue Ridge Parkway annual calendars and on…
Nature… Leiden 11 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 The petals are glossy, red streaked with orange,look like those stretchy lollipops sold on beaches,seem so new they might bow inward and becomesomething else again. The airport in Amsterdamwas a…
Nature… Vicinage 11 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Photograph by Jennifer Sakai Jennifer Sakai is a fine art photographer, professor, and independent curator who resides in Washington D.C. She is currently a Professor of Photography at the…
Nature… Migrate 10 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 I wear a blue flower printcotton mask as I hikenear the foothillswhile summer teases spring.My breath steams my glasses.Must keep distantfrom others, but no onein sight. You swoopbefore me and…
Nature… the bees 10 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Pick among them who fly from late flower to late flower, searching for nectar at the approach of high summer. I’m careful to keep my hands within the green and…
Nature… On a Trumpet Vine 10 Aug 202024 Jul 2020 The yellow-jacket fumbles like a novice on a closed creamsicle-colored bud while, all around, honey bees slip into open blunderbusses of blossoms and emerge filthy with sugardust. What is she…
Nature… Botanical Gardens 10 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 Photograph by Windflower Townley Windflower’s camera is a door into light and color and mediation-a connection with the poetry in nature and her own spirit. She loves to indulge in…
Nature… Does it Hurt to Bloom? 9 Aug 202020 Jul 2020 To peel each petal apart, backwards, straining to display the dusty pollen parts? What was once whole, when parted, will it sting? Can the power of that pain be compared…
Nature… learning the difference 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 One day I killed a carpenter bee that was crawling on the driveway.It was crawling and I squished it with my shoe. Mom told mecarpenters weren’t dangerous, not like the…
Nature… Hive Minded 9 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Photographs by CB Adams CB Adams, MFA, is an award-winning writer and fine art photographer. His photographs have been exhibited nationwide and published in a variety of magazines and periodicals.…
Nature… Iris Rising 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 By Aimee Pozorski Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at Central CT State University. She is a writer, gardener, dog-lover, partner, mother, and friend.…
Nature… Review of Margaret Atwood’s New Release: The Dream Tree 8 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 ______It’s taken me nearly a year to process all of the new releases from 2114, when they opened the vault at The Future Library project in Oslo. They spent the…
Nature Swallows and Swallowtails 8 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Coming to water at varied times different days, I see something new with each circumnavigation of a mountain lake, a small gem fifteen miles from home. With the blue kayak…
Nature… Yellow Leads Me to Enlightenment 8 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 I traverse through serenity countless bright petals mimic the stars this field of sunflowers brings joy yellow leads me to enlightenment. Countless bright petals mimic the stars my body is…
Nature… Butterflies 8 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 1. White-spot Skipper 2. Swallowtail 3. Monarch Photographs by Ryan Dillis Ryan Dillis is an amateur photographer from Massachusetts. He loves exploring the world through a camera lens and capturing…
Nature… Auger Falls 8 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 is a giant V cut into the moraine of the mountainside, whose middle is a tumble and jumble of giant rocks wedged in like balls in a check-valve—which doesn’t stop…
