I had planned to post some photos

from my business trip to Edmonton.

Boy lots of snow.

But then the neighbours dropped in.

Even the weird redheaded neighbours from down the block.

"Sparrows splash
in shallow sunny  
puddles."

                                                Ken Wagner on Haiku Habits

 

                                                                                   

At one point it was everybody out of the pool. 

Then I heard a magpie call, he landed, stomped

around the yard, saw me and left. 

The sparrows returned and

the house finches started to show up.

                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

"Therefore I shall throw

Broken bread, this sullen day,

Out across the snow,

Betting crust and crumb

That birds will gather, and that

One more spring will come."

                                                    Ecclesiastes 11:1     

                                                                   Richard Wilbur