My Oklahoma niece Ashley, and her husband, Richard just got back from a visit to see his family in England. She sent photos this morning, and I am sharing this one, taken in a town called Bakewell in Derbyshire. Pretty, isn’t it?

prompt-color

she paints with flowers
her color palette blends and soothes
our mother’s garden

As you can see, my mind has turned toward gardening, now that the sun is getting brighter. I enjoy growing tame flowers, but my first love will always be the wildflowers spread out so generously over the earth.

For more haiku on this subject go here.

This is a basket my father in law made for us. I thought it would look good photographed against like-colored weeds, but had a hard time with the extreme shadows on such a bright day. I used the oilify filter in GIMP to smooth it out.

I took this around 6:30 on the morning of the 22nd, the same day the sky was so brilliantly blue in the afternoon. You can see my buddies, the crows, are overhead. This is a view of the old wild cherry tree at 70mm. A far view of it can be found next to this one on my Flickr page. Just click on this photo to get there.