31 December 2021 (fog

New Year’s Eve hike

our view from the summit

hidden by fog

View from Mt. Battie summit; usually you can see Penobscot Bay and Camden Harbor below!

25 November 2021 (new ice)

new ice forming

along the bog’s edge

thin calls of a kinglet

17 January 2021 (moss)

winter rain

the welcome green

of mosses

4 December 2020 (hiker)

late fall . . .

a hiker in blaze orange

way up the mountain

19 June 2020 (lady’s slippers)

the lady’s slippers

I don’t see

also matter

18 March 2020 (fresh path)

a fresh path

the south-facing slope

free of snow

15 December 2019 (ferns)

winter rain

the persisting green

of Christmas ferns

10 November 2019 (bearberry)

I’ve been working on an essay about berries this week, hence the recent profusion of berry images in my haiku. There’s something inspiring about working a theme from many different angles, finding diverse paths to the heart.

bearberry

the small beautiful things

we step on

23 October 2019 (rain)

hard rain

washing away the colors

of the mountain

15 June 2019 (ginko)

Joined noted haiku poet and teacher Bruce Ross et al on a ginko (group haiku outing) on Mt. Battie this fine morning. 

the wakes of boats

punctuating the bay

with hyphens

8 May 2019 (chickadee)

whistling duets

with a chickadee

first leaves