less familiar

less familiar than enduring

the impression left by a Great Egret

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Again and again ..

casting out from a perch to catch a fly and return — an Eastern Phoebe.

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Leaf eater

Commonly named for eating Asclepias incarnata (not  pictured),

a Swamp milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis)

makes do in our patch of Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

 

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Dragonfly –

Blue dasher                        (Pachydiplax longipennis)                        preparing to eat.

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fern

               spring                                        time’s                                        unwind

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milkweed garden — third spring, first blooms

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moment

  mown        a moment        remembering thyme-leaved speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia).

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a brief turn

Cherry Springs State Park, I’m told, is named for groves of black cherry trees–

its evening sky,  the clearest and darkest in Pennsylvania.

These days by Little Crum Creek, hours from the skygazers I’ll one night join,

a single black cherry briefly flowers the white light of our nearest star.

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occasion

Constantly time and space align in ways we occasionally recognize:
through bare limbs before spring leaves–
a pileated woodpecker feeds from a dying tree snag

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Sunlight

Spring sun —                             light come to life                            in every limb

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