



nature’s Midas touch renews each dawn rendering night’s shadows to gold
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
Weekly Photo Challenge: Door
A plethora of pillars perch on a porch,
planks peeling paint that past periods parched.
Partitioned panes perfect the perception,
perhaps prim proprietors previously peeked
past the posts to preening patrols on parade.
Hold on a minute! Are those pillars or columns?
A column of columns congregate on the…
oh, never mind.
Photo 101 Assignment 18: Edge and Alignment

My current home is
ninety-five miles upriver from
the coast where I grew up.
Had I allowed myself to merely drift,
I would now be thirty-two leagues out to sea,
floundering at the mercy and
whims of capricious waves.
Instead,
I am resting on a verdant shore
watching the sunlight sparkle
across gentle ripples of water
under an azure sky.
Sometimes it pays
to swim against the tide.
Photo101 Assignment Three: Water
Often alone, seldom lonely. My thoughts are with me wherever I go. They bring creativity, wonder, awe, memories and wisdom. And sometimes they bring pain, sorrow, guilt and fear. I accept them all, they are what they are. After all, one can't always be good company.
Photo #5 for Blogging U’s Photography 101 course. Subject: solitude.