07/30/2022 - Pier Cove, Michigan Supervised Crossing
traveling
Before I got in a car,
To stay in a hotel,
to be close enough to the airport
To take an early shuttle
so i’d be on time to fly
a thousand miles away in a plane-
i watched the wild turkeys
Guiding their babies
Across the road
To the safety of the woods.
July 27, 2022 Fennville Michigan Climbing
July 27, 2022 Looking for beach glass, driftwood and stones, I noticed a beetle crawling on the beach. He encountered a rock and tumbled onto his back getting covered in sand. Then he righted himself and scurried off to the base of a rock. It was as big as a hill to his little beetle body. He started to climb it. He climbed and paused; lifting and waving his feelers into the air when he stopped; then moved on again - over and over. Determined to get somewhere. I don’t know why, or what he expected to find, but I kneeled there watching him for I don’t know how long. Rooting him on.
July 29, 2022 Fennville, Michigan Tracks
July 29, 2022 There is nothing so satisfying as kicking off my sandals on the beach and walking in the cool damp sand, leaving tracks behind that will be washed away before i leave the shore.
August 1, 2022 Azle, Texas Fallen Blossom
August 1, 2022 Azle Texas : There is a drought here, but at the public library, the sprinklers left little puddles on the sidewalk where pretty little blossoms reflected.
August 2, 2022 Azle, Texas Sunlit trail
August 2, 2022 Azle Texas. concrete path winding through a small city park near my mom’s house. This is where my feet land again and again, where sun is filtered through the trees, creating long shadows. It is a refuge in the early morning. The gardens there are suffering in the heat of this extraordinarily hot and dry summer; but a few flowers still bloom … like the lily here below.
August 2, 2022 Azle, Texas Lily