Duck, Duck, Goose

Twenty acre swamp
Two mallards and goose nearby
Seem strange company 

Why crowd, food abounds
Winter has not come with ice
Hiding tasty bites

Savor while you can
Tidbits under ripples brown
Surely winter comes 

Playing childrens games?
Duck, duck, and Canada Goose
Eat, rest, maybe stretch 

O ache of injured wing
Flight a long forgotten thing
Overhead, flocks fly. 

Flock of Canada geese, migrating southward on December 28

They lingered long but
Now they fly quickly southward
Away from hunger.

One who cannot join
In the rush, hopes for the best
And, just perhaps,  trusts

That lady who goes
walking by, a cup of corn
Needed, will supply.

Snowshoe Haiku

Remember how hot it was last summer?  Just barely, I know.  Last July I wrote a post called "Heat Wave Haiku" and now I think it's time for a cold weather version.  Just as the heat wave last summer tried our patience, this cold and snowy winter seems to go on and on.  So, here's my hibernation haiku story...

Waking up to snow...
If only I was a bear,
I would keep sleeping 

Or a small chipmunk
Curled up and cozy under
my snowy blanket

Instead I’ll become
a snowshoe hare though I’m not
nearly as graceful

Colorless morning
No sunshine, no shadows though
patterns delight me

Lonely dock waiting
blue and green kayaks slumber
away in our garage

Deer here before me
walked in my previous path
now I’ll follow his

Toes feeling nippy
even so I am lucky
a warm home awaits me

Deer keeps on walking
Chipmunk and bear still sleeping
Spring are you coming?

Please hurry!

Heat Wave Haiku

Too hot for words
I’ll try something new

photos, Haiku

Creatures with wings
and creatures without
brighten hot days

Blue Dasher dragonfly

Glistening dragons
or are they damsels?
pause a moment

Shade beckons me
take a closer look
hop! tiny toad 

American Toad

Brilliant ‘sally’
not too far away
friends? not, I’d say

Red Eft Salamander

Garden surprise
where did you come from?
welcome to stay

Garter Snake

Summer colors
gracefully flutter
soon will be gone

Pearl Crescent

Breeze to ease
sultry days passing
too soon winter 

Cabbage White

Eastern Pondhawk

I'd like to thank my brother for his help with the identification of the butterflies and dragonflies!