Category: Rural

• Earth landscape Rural

  Just Harvested Fields
  Reveal the Curves and Contours
  Of the Resting Earth
  

  October 5, 2025
• Autumn LIght Rural Sunset

  October Sunsets
  Buttery Light Floats Above
  Just Harvested Fields
  

  October 11, 2024
• Autumn Clouds Distance Rural

  The Sky Speaks Autumn
  In Light, Motion and Distance
  Summer Fields Listen
    
  

  August 18, 2024
• Birds Dance Evening Rural Spring

  In Bare April Fields
  Two Young Cranes Dance the Sun Down
  And I am Content

  April 5, 2024
• Morning Rural

  Still Prairie Mornings
  Restore Me From the Illness
  That is Time and Space

  March 29, 2024
• Rural Shadow Snow Trees

  Low Winter Sun Through
  Bare Limbed Windbreaks Long Shadows
  Etch Snow Covered Fields

  January 31, 2024
• Clouds Rural Sky Snow Wind

  Wind Swept Clouds, Blue Sky,
  Deep Snow Rests Quietly on
  Fields Dreaming of Spring

  January 17, 2024
• LIght Rural sunlight

  Sunlight Spatters Through
  Bare Tree Limbs and Across
  Frozen Stubbled Fields

  December 14, 2023
• Autumn Color Mist Rural Sunrise

  For Becky and Olivia

  Mist Rising Above
  Harvested Fields Paints in the
  Colors of Sunrise

  September 29, 2022
• Autumn Color Rural sunlight

  August Whispers Fall
  In Sunlight Draped on Fields Like
  Sheerest Golden Silk

  August 20, 2022
• Architecture Haiku’d Photographs History Rural West With Michele Gast

  The Great Plains Hold On
  To the Sacred, Even as
  Our Memories Blur

  

  July 6, 2022
• landscape Rural Snow winter

   

  Almost Suspended,
  Time Lingers Above the Fields
  Covered In New Snow

  January 29, 2022
• Distance Rural sunlight

   

  An Almost Blank Slate,
  Gray Sky, Over Snowy Fields,
  Sunlight on Far Hills

  January 27, 2022
• Autumn Haiku’d Photographs landscape Rural

  Ready for Harvest
  A Field of Corn, A Silo
  Dancers, Poised and Paired
  

  September 19, 2021
• Grass Haiku’d Photographs Rural Summer sunlight

  

   

   

   

   

   

   
   

   

   

   

   

   

  A Year of Sunlight
  On August Fields, Aged Like Wine
  Ripe, Luscious, and Full

  August 24, 2021
• Animals landscape LIght Rural Sunrise

  
  After the Harvest
  Trees and Sunrise Stripe Bare Fields
  Like Bengal Tigers

  January 10, 2020
• Autumn Rural Sky Sunrise

  
  Fall Dawn Draws the Sky
  And Fields in Tones of Rising
  Opportunity

  September 27, 2018
• Mist Morning Rural Shadow

  
  This Summer Morning
  Mist Floats In Shadows on the
  Corn, Whispering Fall

  August 1, 2018
• Rural Time Trees

  
  Raw Time Coursing Through
  Limbs of Trees, Corn Stalks. Green Now
  Tinged Golden Later

  June 19, 2018
• Rural

  
  Wheat, A Single Field,
  Among the Corn and Beans, Gold
  Amid Emeralds

  June 16, 2018
• LIght Rural Sun Sunrise

  
  The White Barn Looks West
  Sunrise Lights Its Broad Back Wall
  Above the Green Fields

  June 14, 2018
• Autumn frost Rural

  
  Just Like That, First Frost,
  Bare Fields, Shorter Days and
  Time’s Passage Revealed

  October 12, 2017
• Autumn Mist Rural

  
  From Every Marsh and
  Swale Mist Wafts Across the Fields
  Like Fall’s Gentle Breath

  August 24, 2017
• Memories Moon Night Rural sunlight

  
  Sunlight Echoes Like
  Memory Off a Full Moon
  As Ripe Fields Slumber

  August 16, 2017
• Rural Snow winter

  
  Snow Drifts Like Frozen
  Time and Motion at the End
  Of Wind Swept Furrows

  January 27, 2017
• Clouds Evening Rural Sky sunlight winter

  
  Winter’s Evening Skies
  Muted Violet Grey, Soft Creams
  Draped on Wind Swept Fields

  January 26, 2017
• dreams Earth Home LIght Rural

  
  Hillside Looking South
  Just Beyond the Glaciers Reach
  Light and Warmth and Home

  November 24, 2016
• Autumn Rural Sunset

  Just Harvested Fields
  Stretch Satisfied, Radiant
  With a Sunset Blush

  November 8, 2015
• Autumn Morning Rural Sunrise

  Sunrise on the Frost
  Ignores Modern Cynics to
  Paint the Fields Golden

  October 14, 2015
• Food Night Roads Rural Song Summer

  Along Rural Roads
  Sweet Corn in Farm Stands Sings the
  Songs of Late Summer

  July 29, 2015
• Flowers Home Rural Summer

  Home From the City
  To You, Through Corridors of
  Bright and Wild Flowers

  July 28, 2015
• Autumn Love Rural

  
  Sunshine Breaking Through
  At Day’s End Casts Flannel Light
  On Umber Fields
  

  October 21, 2013
• Architecture Distance History Rural Summer

  
  Weathered by Years, Grey
  Barn Leans on a Horizon
  Of Ripening Wheat
  

  September 12, 2013
• Distance Mountain Rural Tri-ku

  
  Crossing the High Plains
  I was Unprepared for the
  Religious Training

  
  Cleansed in Molten Shades
  Of Summer Green, Sienna
  Grass and Golden Wheat

  
  I Was Ready
  When the Mountains First Appeared
  For Genuflexion

  September 6, 2013
• LIght Roads Rural Sky Summer Sun

  
  Sun Silvered Blacktop
  Cleaves High Corn Below Blue Haze
  At Summer’s Far End
  

  September 3, 2013
• History Rural Sky Summer Sunset

  
  Crickets Calling to
  A Time Warped Dust Bowl Sunset.
  Still Summer Winds Down
  

  August 6, 2013
• Rural Spring

  
  Lush Late Spring Fields Draped
  On the Hills Like a Beloved
  Shawl on Bare Shoulders
  

  June 14, 2013
• Rural Wind winter

  
  Winter Winds Painted
  In the Drifts Trailing Fence Posts
  Along the Covered Fields
  

  March 8, 2013
• Roads Rural Snow Trees winter

  
  Sanded Country Roads,
  Like Lost Paths in Leafless Woods,
  Revealed by the Snow
  

  March 7, 2013
• Death Distance Family History Home Memories Rural

  Great Uncle Harry’s History

  
  Watching Farms and Fields,
  Forests and Sky Passing By
  Whispering Meaning
  

  January 21, 2013
• Autumn Rural winter

  
  Just Harvested Fields
  Look Brushed, Curried and Ready
  For Winter Stable
  

  November 1, 2011
• Distance Rural

  
  Farmsteads Scattered Like
  Promises Across Plowed Fields
  To Blurred Horizons
  

  May 12, 2011
• Death Distance dreams Night Rural winter

  
  Blue Night Laid Across
  The Frozen Fields Like a Shroud
  In Rising Silence
  

  January 5, 2011
• Roads Rural

  
  Thin country highways
  Thrown like streamers on the hills
  To mark the way home.
  

  August 21, 2010
• Clouds Rain Rural Storms Summer

  
  Thunderstorm landscape
  In muted grays and vibrant greens
  Rumbling as it rests
  

  July 19, 2010
• Birds Rural Spring Sunrise

  
  An April sunrise
  A hawk watches mists rising
  From newly plowed fields.
  

  April 14, 2010
• Memories Roads Rural

  
  Sunday morning streets
  Remembering their days as
  empty country lanes
  

  November 22, 2009
• Autumn Rural Snow

  
  Golden fields fading
  To beige, patiently waiting
  For the first snow fall
  

  November 15, 2009
• Autumn Food Rural

  
  Crops fill the valleys
  Horizon to horizon
  Just South of Lodi
  

  September 10, 2009
• Food Rural Summer

  
  Late August sweet corn
  Corderoys the countryside
  Butter, salt and bliss
  

  August 31, 2009