frost on glass canvas nature’s fleeting art display melts with dawn's warm touch



frost on glass canvas nature’s fleeting art display melts with dawn's warm touch




Unrest amidst these recent ruins,
abandoned shells of concrete rooms;
gray walls, gray clouds, gray misted woods,
dampened air of palpable gloom.

Who walks along these musty halls?
Whose shadows flit across the walls?
A voice from sometime far away…
whose name is it he softly calls?

Whispered tales of haunting ghosts:
a soldier loathe to leave his post,
a submariner from World War Two
who shelled this battery from off the coast.

Strange sightings, chills, and eerie sounds.
Some say a night watchman guards the grounds,
an infantryman from the Civil War,
lantern swinging as he makes his rounds.

Whoever within these walls abide,
be they visiting spirits from the other side,
or mere figments of imaginative minds,
I leave it for you to weigh and decide.
Battery Russell is located in Fort Stevens State Park on the Oregon Coast. For more information about the history of the fort, please visit the Friends of Old Fort Stevens website.
who knows how or why what we plan when young seldom is where we end up

sadness descending sometimes cold fog enwraps me sometimes a warm shawl



Mannequins in the window
ungainly plastic poses
frozen faces void of expression
Unmoving and unmoved
as I walk past, and yet
I find discomfort in the notion that
perhaps their unseeing eyes
are somehow
watching me


patterns underfoot functional and beautiful balance sole and soul



horizontal lines life sliced in tidy layers imposing order
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #6 Horizontal Lines and Horizon
The theme for this week’s Daily Post photo challenge is Victory. Victories come in so many shapes and sizes, we probably experience them in one form or another on a daily basis.
Some examples of victories:
Getting your human trained to carry you wherever you go.

Finally achieving that yoga pose you’ve been working on.

Succeeding in laying that Grade AA extra large egg.

Acing puppy kindergarten.

Mastering the piano.

And the real biggie… being rescued and finding your forever home.

