Just when I was slumping into the gray and rainy drears
of a Pacific Northwest autumn,
bemoaning the lack of color,
this little fellow appeared at my study window,
cheering me up immensely.
[First posted: November 8, 2014]
Foxglove Moments
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- A Buddha Moment
- A bunch of pretty blossoms
- A Certain Slant of Light
- A Little Burst of Color, with Feathers
- A Morning Visitation
- A Multi-layered World
- A Season of Anticipation (There are four of them)
- A Stunning Comeback!
- All the thyme in the world
- Amid our prosaic lives come moments of poetry
- Amid the grays of a Northwest Autumn...
- Amid winter's monochrome
- Amidst the prosaic
- Arachnid Art
- Autumn Afternoon Flyby
- Autumn crinkling at my feet
- Autumn Framed
- Autumn Inspiration
- Autumn Mandala
- Autumn Nestling In
- Autumn Perfect
- Autumn's Passage
- Back by Popular Demand--Summer!
- Beauty in Transit
- Better Than a Gravestone
- Blossom Antidotes to the World
- Buddha Frog
- Bug from Outer Space
- Catching the Morning Sun in Winter
- Caught in Cobwebs
- Coming into Spider Season
- Coming into the Heartland
- Cosmic Water Lily
- Daily Practice
- Deer and Squirrel Stand Off
- Definitely Autumn
- Different Eyes
- Digitalis
- Distinguished Visitor
- Doomsday Update
- Evanescence
- Even Squirrels Have Less Than Graceful Moments
- Feeling the Year Turning Over...
- Finding the Sun
- First Taste of Autumn
- Fluffed Up Flicker
- Foxglove Glow
- Grace Note
- Grand Opening
- Great Buddha of the Blossoms
- Happily (now) watching the leaves happily fall where they may
- Hillside at First Light
- Hovercraft
- How hot?
- How to tell which plants are safe from deer
- Hummingbird gripes overheard at the window
- Hummingbird Wars-2013
- Hummingbird Wars-2014
- I get to come home to this
- In the Twilight Zone between Seasons
- It's beginning...
- Just Stopping By To Wash Up
- Last Light of the Year
- Lesson from the Leaves
- Lots of Suggestive Tail Wagging Going On
- Monarch
- My Bird / Squirrel / Raccoon Feeder
- Mystery of the Disappearing Suet Cakes Solved!
- Nature's Valentine
- New Neighbors
- No one at home
- Noted in Passing
- Nothing can stay
- Now that's a first
- On the clear crisp cusp of Autumn
- One very steep road
- Peanuts and poetry
- Pests
- Poe's Hummingbird
- Poets Make Good Walking Companions
- Pond People
- Pond Sitting
- Re-frame Problems And There May Be No Need to Solve Them
- Reading tracks in snowtime
- Relationships take time...and sometimes peanuts
- Requiem for a Rhododendron
- Rhododendron Road
- Roof Top Perspectives
- Season of Bursting Blossoms
- Shared Communion
- Six Reasons I Don't Keep Fish in My Pond
- Snowbound
- Sometimes it's a stretch
- Squirrel Problem Solved
- Squirrel Shaming
- Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeder For Sale
- Squirrel-Proof, He Said
- Squirrels on Ice
- Still Capable of Being Taken by Surprise
- Still Snowbound, Not Complaining
- Still Waters
- Stone in a Stump
- Storm at sunset
- Summer Watching
- Sun's Benediction on a Summer Night
- Switching on the Hillside
- That kind of day
- That Time of Year
- The Buddha in Autumn
- The Chipmunk Curl
- The Deer Are Eating My Trees!
- The first thing you see
- The Further Adventures of Chip and Jay
- The Melt is On!
- The Season of Burning Bushes
- The Season of Full Cheeks
- The World at Last Light
- The Year at Dusk
- This Day Signing Off
- This Photo Was A Mistake
- This, too...
- Time Flutters On
- Trade Offs
- True Royalty
- Up Close & Personal
- Up Close & Personal II
- Watching the Rain Roll Up the Valley
- Welcome back, Rufus
- What a difference a day makes!
- What is a home anyway?
- When Hummingbirds Become Snowbirds
- When the word "green" seems inadequate
- Where is everyone tonight?
- Who Could Have Ever Thought of This?
- Window Stones
- Winter Hummingbird
- Woodland Encounter
- Woodland Friends
- Young raccoons making a discovery
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