Daylight Savings

extra hour
disappears at night
unrescued




Fractal Created in Apophysis, edited in IrfanView

My Abstract Watercolor Gallery

For NaBloPoMo
fractals

Gold Fever

Poefusion offered these five words as a prompt: earth, deluge, fluvial, calm and inspissated. After a few dictionary peeks, I managed to eke out the following free verse.

in the calm days
pulled by a fortnight
of squalling deluge
earth gave up
fluvial treasures

inspissated bedrock
uncovered black sand
holding rugged nuggets
gold that outshone the sun
panners roiled the stream

Digital photo courtesy of Breanna Combs, Tacoma.

NaBloPoMo and Nanowrimo
poetry and photos

Gilt of Gold

ancient bedrock rich
heaps a swirling pan
nuggets snuggle out of sight
debris spills across the lip
renews ripples in the creek
treasured gold twinkles

awakens timeworn sin
and lacy webs of guilt
from faults of my mind



All that Glitters, Original Watercolor

Sunday Scribblings prompt: Money

poetry watercolor

3WW Tanka

On Three Word Wednesday Bone posts three (or more) words. The mission is to write something using all of those words. It can be a few lines, a story, a poem, anything... Today, those words are: Initial ~ Knock ~ Weather and I've chosen to write a tanka.


with no warning knock
spring's initial breeze blows in
loosens winter freeze
soothes and softens, wafts away
weather of the icy heart



An ink and watercolor bookmark is shown here.




poetry watercolor
North of Summer, Poetry of a Decade is available at my bookstore on Lulu Publishing

Nanowrimo, Cleaning, Coffee and Exercise

Two weeks from now, give or take, signup opens for Nanowrimo although writing doesn't begin until November 1.

I'll begin a third novel there and will start without a plot, a plan or a word written.

With growing understanding of what this entails, this year I'm prepared to delegate some of the daily chores.

iRobot saves my life with their nifty workers. Dirt Dog cleans my patio and garage floors, Roomba cleans the inside floors while I pound the keyboard.

Green Mountain's Keurig single-cup coffee brewer provides a fresh and fine cup in less than a minute - much tastier than pouring from a pot of old dark coffee and looking for flavor to hide the age. I also enjoy their teas and hot chocolate.

This session, I'll set a timer to prod me into periodic fifteen minute bouts of exercise. Two dances with the grim reaper in the last half-dozen years carry a reminder that it's not a good idea to sit in one place, holding breath, for extended periods of time while being pulled into a character's life.

A pot of paints, brushes and small watercolor papers occupy space near the kitchen sink for the times I need more colors than black and white.

So, with these thoughts and helpers in place, I'll face a blank screen for as long as it takes to get a character and action.

Will I see you there? Let me know when you sign up - it's fun to recognize others who are November noveling. I can hardly wait to open my head and see if anything's there.

Fractal created in Apophysis
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