1/1/2024

New year and new day

The outside is gray and brown

Details hold beauty

1/2/2024

 Blue sky and blue jays

The sun shines and birds do sing

Lovely second day

1/3/2024 Two haikus from my walk

Roadside rotten logs

Beautiful and decaying

Fungus fanning out

Tangled and entwined

Juniper and bittersweet

Tree versus vine

1/4/2024

Tree that is dying

Rotten apple clinging tight

Neither wants to fall

1/5/2024 AM

V formation flies

Through a morning winter sky

To do what geese like

1/5/2024 PM

Sunlit placid pond

Not yet touched by winter's chill

Geese happily float

1/6/2024

Little wren bouncing

Finding seed on frozen earth

Soon the snow will fall

1/7/2024

The world has turned white

A blank slate for the new year

Unblemished delight

1/8/2024 AM

Blue sky. Frozen ground.

Sunlight bright. Blinding reflections.

Warmth and cold combined.

1/8/2024 PM

Chickadee calling

From inside the garden gate

Welcome everyone

1/9/2024

Frigid platinum

Frost covered wisteria

Junco’s perfect match

1/10/2024 AM

Amidst mucky mud

The living soak up the sun

Another day to feel

1/10/24 PM

Flooded, slushy mess

Mother Nature gives and takes

The horse does not mind

1/11/2024

Old horse trotting on

Mottled, muddy, frozen ground

Brown, white, full of life

1/12/2024

Is it winter yet?

Finally, a frozen pond!

Let down geese lament.

1/13/2024 AM

Calm after the storm

The earth is an unwrung sponge

Sun and wind heal all

1/13/24 PM

Cold front moving in

Icy winds bend and breaking

Reeds and trees alike

1/14/24

Mercury falling

Gusting winds and squalling snow

Breath taken away

1/15/2024

Last leaves on the ground

Brittle, brown, beneath soft paws

Crisp as morning air

1/16/2024

Winter wonderland

Icicles on eyelashes

Steam off warm bodies

1/17/2024

Sunlit babbling brook

Fallen tree lying across

Silent bells of ice

1/18/20024

Full clouds overhead

The silence of snow surrounds

When will first flakes fall?

1/19/2024

Snow falls silently

Juncos, sparrows, flitter, float

Chirps the only sound

1/20/2024

Gray sky turning blue

Last of the clouds floating by

Whispers on the wind

1/21/2024

 Sun-drenched windy day

Blue skies might be here to stay

Chimes have much to say

1/22/2024

 Phragmites grow tall

Invading where cattails grow

Now they both belong

1/23/2024

 Everything is gray

Sky, trees, feathers in my hand

Moods as the rain falls

1/24/2024

Stuck inside a cloud

Hooves planted on slushy earth

All around is wet

1/25/2024 AM

Endless falling rain

Black, gray, white only remain

Color has been drained

1/25/2024 PM

Death is not useless

It feeds the fungus and bugs

Also woodpeckers

1/26/2024

Splish Splash Sploosh Sploosh Plop

The sound mud makes underfoot

No treading lightly

1/27/2024

Moody muddy mare

Enjoying spring-like weather

Only weeks to wait

1/28/2024

Precipitation

Another wintery mix

The animals hide

1/29/2024

Hawks soar, horses run

Spirited away by wind

All are left breathless

1/30/2024

So much of the same

Gray skies above. Mud Below

Oh, January

1/31/2024

A dusting of snow

A clean slate for a new month

Buy, January