Category: Trees

• Song Trees Water

  Deep In the Forest
  Lake Michigan is Revealed
  By Her Surf’s Soft Song
  

  October 14, 2025
• Sky Spring Trees

  Fresh Green Leaves Embossed
  On Rich Blue Skies.  Spring Paints Life
  In Primary Colors
  

  May 10, 2025
• Autumn Summer Trees Wind

  Stand Still and Listen
  To Trees Tell Summer Stories
  To an Autumn Breeze
  

  September 1, 2024
• Podcast Reflections Snow Spring Summer Trees winter

  Episode R3.1 – Trees

  

  August 20, 2024
• Meditation Podcast Snow Spring Summer Trees winter

  Episode M3.1 – Trees

  

  May 26, 2024
• Haiku’d Photographs Sky Trees

  Let the Leaves Commence
  As the Winter Slumber Ends
  Arise to Sky and Light

  

  May 16, 2024
• Rural Shadow Snow Trees

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

  January 31, 2024
• Desert Haiku’d Photographs Rock Sun Time Trees

  Almost Biblical
  With Namesake Arms Held High as
  If To Stop the Sun

  

  See more on the Prairie Star Studios blog 

  August 12, 2023
• Birds Color Spring Trees

  Tree Limbs are Still Bare But Birds Perch There Singing in Green Celebration

  March 29, 2023
• Snow Spring sunlight Trees

  Early Spring After
  The Snow Melts, Knife Sharp Sunlight,
  Wind Blown, Bare Limbed Trees

  March 29, 2022
• Shadow Snow sunlight Trees

  Beneath the Bare Trees
  Sunlight Flows with Long Shadows
  Across Melting Snow

  March 1, 2022
• Music Trees With Michele Gast

  Breathing Solitude
  A Lone Tree Stands Quiet Watch
  As Time Passes By

  

  From “A Forest Symphony” a collaboration of music, photography, and haiku with Joe Rosenfield and Michele Gast

  December 13, 2021
• Time Trees

   

  Listen to the Trees
  Speak Time, Every Leaf and Limb,
  All the Roots and Reach

  September 16, 2021
• Animals Birds Earth Evening LIght Night Summer Trees Uncategorized Wind

   

  The Sound of the Wind
  Tumbling Though the Tree Tops
  And The Day’s Last Light

  The Rising Chorus
  Of Crickets From Just Beyond
  The Reach of Porch Lights

  The Feathered Whisper
  Overhead as Silent Geese
  Head Home Through The Dark

  The Earth is Breathing
  In and Out as We Count Days
  And Years, Bits and Bytes

  The Earth is Breathing
  In and Out, Inviting Us
  Along, In and Out

  August 12, 2021
• Color Summer Trees Wind

  
  

  All the Rippling Green
  Of Tree Tops. A Summer’s Breeze
  Flows Through the Landscape

  June 6, 2021
• Sunrise Trees winter

  
  Sunrise, Like Footlights
  Before the Curtain Rises,
  On the Forest’s Edge

  January 16, 2019
• Rural Time Trees

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

  June 19, 2018
• Autumn Evening Sky Trees

  
  Sky, Trees, Marsh and Reeds
  All Burnished Red and Umber
  On this Fall Evening

  October 24, 2017
• Sunrise Trees

  
  Mist Trails like Perfume
  Through the Tree Tops, Gently Stirred
  By a Rising Sun

  September 14, 2017
• Architecture History Trees

  
  Walking Long Blocks with
  All The Years Written in Tall
  Trees and Small Houses

  April 19, 2017
• City Evening Travel Trees

  
  Not Quite Night. Take Flight.
  Watch a Rising Tide of Trees
  Cover The City

  January 1, 2017
• Autumn Morning Sunrise Trees Wind

  
  The Hour Before Dawn,
  Cool Breezes Announce Fall in
  Leaves I Cannot See

  September 26, 2016
• LIght Rain Roads Summer Trees

  
  Desultory Summer
  Rains. Palest Golden Light Floats
  Above Polished Streets

  August 17, 2016
• Autumn Clouds Morning Summer Trees Wind

  
  And Just When You Thought
  Nothing Would Ever Change A
  Mid-August Morning
   
  An August Morning
  Of Cooling Breezes, High Clouds,
  Hints of Rolling Time.
   
  Rolling Time and Distance,
  Of Journey and Return, Of
  Effort and of Rest

  August 8, 2016
• Birds Morning Music Trees

  
  Birches Silvering
  Their Leaves in a Morning Breeze
  With a Robin’s Song

  July 10, 2016
• Haiku’d Photographs LIght sunlight Trees

  

   

  Green Leaves Gently Float
  In the Heart of the Forest
  On Pools of Sunlight

  May 27, 2016
• Clouds Sky Trees

  
  Blue Skies Fly High Clouds
  Like Flags. Right In Front of Me
  Smallest Buds Unfurl

  April 20, 2016
• Sunrise Trees

  The Trees, Still All Line
  And Gesture, Await Their Leaves,
  Before the Sunrise

  March 5, 2016
• Family Food History Home Memories sunlight Trees

  
  All That History,
  Love and Loss, in Daily Bread
  And Sunday Dinners

  January 23, 2016
• Haiku’d Photographs LIght Sky Spring Trees winter

  

   

  Winter Trees, Bare Limbs
  Raised, Prayers of Light, Of Sky, and
  Promises of Spring

  January 20, 2016
• LIght sunlight Trees

  Sunlight Lingering
  On Tree Tops Above Snow Filled
  Forest Floor Shadows

  January 2, 2016
• Dance Grass Haiku’d Photographs Love Night Sky Trees

  
  Grass and Trees and Trails
  Spreading Out Like Love Under
  All the Evening Sky

  January 1, 2016
• LIght Sunrise Trees

  Sunrise Washes Up
  Against the Tree Line, Splashing
  Orange and Umber

  December 15, 2015
• Haiku’d Photographs Sky Spring Trees

  
   
  
  Just Before the Leaves
  Birch Limbs, Brighter than Angels,
  Etched on Bluest Sky
  

  April 13, 2015
• LIght Song Sunrise Trees

  
  Surviving on Gifts
  Of Light and Song. Subzero
  Sunrises, Dulcet Chords
  

  December 31, 2014
• Fog History Morning Snow Spiritual Trees Tri-ku

  A Morning Fog Floats,
  Quiet as a Silent Prayer,
  Into the Tree Tops

  A Fog That Softens
  All Sight and Sound and Maybe
  All We Think We Know

  Snowflakes Drifting Down,
  Gently as Forgiveness, to
  Shroud Every Sharp Edge.

  November 26, 2014
• Autumn History Trees

  
  After the Leaves Fall
  Bare Trees Remain, A kind of
  Standing History
  

  November 11, 2014
• Autumn Food Garden Snow Trees

  
  Fall Seemed Late This Year
  But Still, Harvest’s In, Leaves Raked
  Before the First Snow
  

  November 1, 2014
• Autumn Snow Trees

  
  First Snow and Last Leaves
  Rattle on Nearly Bare Limbs
  Above Frozen Lawns
  

  October 31, 2014
• Autumn Trees Tri-ku

  
  Yesterday’s Maples
  Were Infused Top to Bottom
  In Every Color

  Today’s Lawns Hold Half
  That Bounty in Pools Like an
  Impressionist’s Dream

  Tomorrow’s Landscape
  Distills all that Hued Movement
  Into Black and White
  

  October 16, 2014
• Autumn Birds Fog Trees

  
  Morning Mist, No Breeze,
  The Sound of a Leaf Falling,
  Cries of Unseen Geese
  

  September 23, 2014
• Dance Trees

  
  Above the Daily
  Roar, The Gentle Whisper of
  Wind and Trees Dancing
  

  July 25, 2014
• Spring Trees

  
  Diving Into Green.
  The Happy Sighs of Trees Lift
  On the Warming Breeze
  

  May 13, 2014
• Flowers Gardens Grass Trees

  The Flora

  
  Figuring Things Out
  Patiently as the Land and
  Just as Mysterious
  

  April 14, 2014
• Autumn Clouds Grass Sunrise Trees

  
  Sunrise Drips Autumn
  Down From Clouds To Treetops and
  Across Frosted Lawns
  

  October 22, 2013
• Autumn LIght Trees

  
  First Light and Golden
  Shadows in Tree Tops, Above
  Rising Mist and Frost
  

  October 14, 2013
• Autumn Love Trees Wind

  
  Of This Golden Day
  I’ll Recall the Painted Leaves
  The Silk Breeze and You
  

  October 11, 2013
• Autumn Trees

  
  All of a Sudden
  Locust Trees Shouting Fall in
  Yellow Confetti
  

  October 1, 2013
• Morning sunlight Trees

  
  Pulling Back the Drapes
  I Found the Sunlight Shattering
  Against All the Leaves
  

  August 9, 2013
• Spring Trees Water Work

  
  Outside my Office
  Trees and Lake Call Me Awake
  In Spring Blues And Greens
  

  May 20, 2013