late summer dining

late summer dining-

sweet sugar sucked

from early autumn sedum

bee's eye view

bee’s eye view
going to work-

where to start?

not ready for autumn!

autumn-

we are not

ready for you!

careful in deep pollen

careful-

not to drown

in deep pollen

final approach

summer morning

final approach-

wet blanket flower

mending a torn wing

summer sunlight-

can it mend

a torn wing?

why is he sad?

august blue moon-

why is he sad

the koi?

napping while sunning

napping-

while hugging

and sunning

riding a globe thistle

summer we don’t see-

riding a moving

globe thistle

Almost autumn

almost autumn-

spent the night

in the globe thistle

missing her chicks

home-

missing 
her chicks

glaciers melting

glaciers melting

salmon spawning-

symbiosis?

eyes finally open

dawn-

taking a drink

eyes finally open!

symbiosis with spawning salmon

water towers-

symbiosis with

spawning salmon

summer wing warming

summer stone-

perfect for

wing warming

sheet music sung by fire and wind

sheet music-

two staff format

sung by fire and wind

crevasse crying

crevasse crying-

rocks falling through

ice cracking

summer sun bath

summer sun bath-

wing dry and

stretch 

careful not to step on her shadow

when landing-

careful not to step

on her shadow

hear the harpist

hearing the harpist-

all the birds

have stopped singing

summer going

summer going-

how sweet the pollen

of the autumn aster

beautiful in morning sun

these burned trees

how beautiful

in morning sun

peek-a-boo!

golden pollen

inside the harebell

peek-a-boo!

knee deep in fragrance

knee deep

in sun drenched

fragrance

sound of water

silent sea

fluke wings fly

sound of water

going fishing!

foggy summer morning

salmon returning

going fishing!

stream less travelled?

stream

less

travelled?

warm fuzzy sleeping buzzy

sunny summer

warm fuzzy

sleeping buzzy

soul mates

fresh seed mound

summer larch shade

soul mates

river rumble

eyes shut-

river rumble

warm shoulder sun

song sparrow singing

soothing

seet seet seet

song sparrow singing

Pre-dawn reflections

reflecting on

pre-dawn

reflections

dreaming of bees swarming

dreaming

of bees

swarming

soundless sunrise

soundless sunrise-

summer flowers

humming

The geese are landing!

Flying high overhead-

The geese are driven to land

On the ancient ice

Sounds of sand shifting

 Sounds of sand shifting

Silenced by the thunder thump

Of ice blocks breaking

Pleistocene sunlight!

Sunlight seized in ice

In the late pleistocene

Continues to shine!

Memories melting before they are ready

Memories melting

Well before they are ready

But what do we care?

Too cold to land

Vee of honking geese 

Drawn to the silver decoy

But too cold to land

We are hurting the next seven generations

Etched in ancient ice-

The next seven generations

That we are hurting

How lucky to be alive!

How lucky to live

After four billions of years

This moment of now

Almost midnight sun

Almost midnight sun-

Soft sound of water dribble

Into copper ponds

Distant sound of geese!

Chilly summer dawn

Ripple blue ice reflections

Distant sound of geese!

Pleistocene Ice melting

Pleistocene ice-

Sculpted, squeezed, sheared, fractured, etched, 

Frozen until now?

Finding flying flukes

Only for an instant-

Alaska afternoon sun

Finding flying flukes!

Hearing the buzzy

Deep in the lamb’s ear-

Seeing soft furry fuzzy-

Hearing the buzzy

Fluke fountain flowing

Fluke fountain flowing-

Multiple mini cascades

Only for an instant!

When will they will return?

Hope they will return-

When the aspen turn golden

Will it be too late?

Waiting for the salmon

Patiently waiting

For the first sockeye salmon

To go finning by

Rolling for seven billion!

For seven billion

Trucks can never stop rolling!!

But for nine billion??