that's just the wild wood
nature poetry
Monday, May 9, 2022
Spring back/Winter Wonderland
Thursday, March 24, 2022
White-tailed jackrabbit
Taken from the front window this morning. Despite the cars, dogs, coyotes and bobcats they share the city with we still have some white-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus townsendii).
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Today
It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream"
Dylan Thomas
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
TODAY
“We kill so much! Not only in our stupid battles, the stupid street fighting of our revolution, our stupid executions - no, we kill at every step. We kill when circumstances force us to drive gifted young people into occupations for which they are not suited. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy.”
from If The War Goes on: Reflections On War and Politics by Hermann Hesse
photo taken at Highgate Cemetery
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Today
“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.” Demian
Monday, February 21, 2022
Morning
This morning I went out to shovel but this white-tailed jackrabbit
was still resting so I came back inside.
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Snow with Coyote
Snow this morning, At 6:30 I was just finishing shovelling
street. It is -15, wc -23 but it did not feel that cold.
“so I came straight off here, through the Wild Wood and the snow! My! it was fine, coming through the snow as the red sun was rising and showing against the black tree-trunks! As you went along in the stillness, every now and then masses of snow slid off the branches suddenly with a flop! making you jump and run for cover. Snow-castles and snow-caverns had sprung up out of nowhere in the night--and snow bridges, terraces, ramparts--I could have stayed and played with them for hours. Here and there great branches had been torn away by the sheer weight of the snow,”
from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame