prompt-poetry of the sea

one serene pool
left by the retreating tide
water trickles by

The photo was taken on York Beach, in Maine, last summer. For more haiku, go here.

These photos were taken yesterday in Portland. The day was cloudy and wet, and the bright yellow of forsythia bushes in bloom showed up all over town. I bought my first flowers for outdoors, some bright pansies that should be safe from now on. Spring in a northern climate is such a delight!

I made these border sections with one photo in the Gimp program. First, I used the cartoon filter on the shot, then the tile filter, in the map section. Feel free to use them, if you like.

I spent several hours moving plants around in my garden today. Tomorrow and Saturday are supposed to be rainy, so I thought that it would be a good time to do it.This season, all the herbs will be together, near the front of the garden. For the past few years, the cooking herbs were in the back, with the vegetables.

We have johnny jumps ups everywhere. The grass is full of them and, and they are so many different colors, that I decided to do a search to see what the most common color was. Just hit image search on google, and I think that you will be surprised. Down around Oklahoma and Arkansas, what they call johnny jump ups are pale violet wild pansies. Photos taken other places showed blossoms almost completely yellow. Look here to see where they came from originally, and here to see all the names these tiny plants go by.

My garden is peppered with these flowers. This one is growing on the path, and will have to be moved into a bed. That is one of my yearly getting the garden ready in the spring tasks. Whatever you call them, and whatever the color, these little guys are one of my favorite flowers.

Just outside our back door is a row of old maple trees. Quite often in the morning, the crows gather there. There is hardly any time during the day we that we can’t see or hear the crows close by. Is this a favorite place, or are there just a lot of crows in Maine?