The corn curls and spikes in thirst the soybeans barely grow cracks appear in the parched soil We know, we sense their mindless cry for water The weatherfolk make their commentaries about the lack of rain the market masters spin their webs and make their largest gains but the farmer and his family look [...]
The plants and I study the sky hoping, thinking: Rain Seeing naught but blue from north to south east to west and high as eye can see Not today the message says will rain, gentle rain give drink to plants and me we'll have to wait The timings not ours we control it not in [...]
A summer passing with scant rain coming drizzles and dew and those not often the warm sun drying soil and plants Forecasts promising but rain not happening the days turn into weeks while farm folks watch and farm folks pray and folks with yards and gardens use their sprinklers often then they watch too [...]
Thunder rumbles but shies away somehow having lost its way to my front step my whole farm Its sister rain is hiding too as thunder teases us raindrops fall other places succoring thirsty plants How does this work? we are led to ponder the pathways thunder takes the byways rain does course I, like [...]
September found us hot and dry thirsty people thirst crops thirsty lawns, flora and fauna Drought, they called it and there we were United there town and gown and country folk farmers and sidewalk pounders alike And then the rains came soft and gentle soothing all the crops and people great full thank full [...]
Across the midwest prairies the summer rains come and go A lightning show with rolling thunder clouds piled higher than mountains and winds that gust all bow down to rain When plants and people begin to notice supply is running low they pause, look up, are reminded how small our efforts are The lightning, thunder, [...]
In the whirling world of work it's so easy to stop and watch but so seldom done... Children, around the world, at play, no matter where adapting to their place some climbing trees (to read a book, or play Tarzan/Jane) some running, chasing a bird, a bee, a butterfly or a dog or cat perhaps [...]
Let the week begin again! The garbage man just came! The dumpster of living refuse gone I can begin again, dear Finnigin! Through the week I toil and sweat fixing this and that making and building all sorts of things and then there's 'stuff left over Flotsum jetsum whatever you call it things not [...]
Somewhere a man, woman kneads a pile of dough Ingredients measured all created mixed together just right Water, flour, yeast joining chemistry together as the hands, the fingers, roll and squeeze and shape roll and squeeze and shape Somewhere a man, a woman kneads some special soil Ingredients measured all created mixed together just [...]
Capturing a thousand little pictures of people growing up Thoughts Actions Smiles and frowns Quizzical 'Thinking' The pictures slip on past some, hopefully captured in still frames on some paper Who knows? Some day they might be captured on pages of the months riding atop some 35 squares the month and year somewhere [...]