Category: Rural

• 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 HarvestA Field of Corn, A SiloDancers, 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
• Rural Sky Summer With Juliette Crane

  Summer murmuring Every shade of green and blue, Blurs the horizon. The artwork is “The Drawing Girl” by Juliette Crane

  August 23, 2009
• Rural Sun

  Wisconsin valleys Tumble sun and shadow in Every shade of green

  August 18, 2009
• History Memories Rural

  Old world memories Swiss Valley, French Hill, Dutch Lane In Eastern Iowa

  April 1, 2009