echoes of summer
November dandelion
warm spot, sunny day
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We’re clearly in the latter stages of autumn here in Southwest Ohio, but an eighty-degree day earlier this week sent signals that parts of…
relentless summer
eighty degrees, October
will leave soon enough
Not just eighty, it was eighty-seven degrees Fahrenheit on my way home from work yesterday. While summer has its charms, I much…
firmly into fall
hoping for more days spent with
the boys of summer
As the end of September approaches, our local professional baseball team sits right below the cutoff line in the standings to…
September cornfield
withering from green to brown
for one last chapter
Driving home from work yesterday, I first noticed the “beginning of the end” for a cornfield I pass every day. The solid…
a child at Costco
buying sleds in September
wishing time away
I don’t know what’s more remarkable — the fact that Costco rolled out their winter gear before Labor Day or that someone actually…
muggy August morn
the garbage trucks race against
the oncoming heat
The work rules for the rear load drivers (this is the actual job title, I looked it up) for our local waste removal company…
feral apple tree
contemplating options for
the fruit underneath
My wife and I spent the weekend bicycling in Michigan. During our travels, we passed several apple trees that had obviously been…
snake on the bike path
we both give one another
the respect deserved
Yesterday found my wife and I in our shared happy place — the bike trail. Twenty miles of riding on a trail we’ve not visited…
from my perspective
the dragonflies dive bombing
the inner city
Dragonflies make another appearance in my haiku this summer.
deer in the bean field
robbing the farmer’s harvest
nibble by nibble
Today’s haiku comes yet again from sights seen during my commute. I pass by three soybean fields in a valley every morning and…