I've been lucky to live on acreage my whole life so I've spent lots of time outside. I've always had secret hideaways under tall trees. I started taking photos when I was about 11 and my favourite subject is flowers. So it was a natural choice for me to blog about nature, choosing poems to complement some of my photos.

Monday, February 21, 2011

from Summer Evening by John Clare

Crows crowd croaking overhead,
Hastening to the woods to bed.
Cooing sits the lonely dove,
Calling home her absent love.
With 'Kirchup! Kirchup!' 'mong the wheats,
Partridge distant partridge greets...

Bats flit by in hood and cowl;
Through the barn-hole pops the owl;
From the hedge, in drowsy hum,
Heedless buzzing beetles bum,
Haunting every bushy place,
Flopping in the labourer's face...

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