THIS WEBPAGE
EVOCATIVELY ILLUSTRATES
MY HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD,
A MEDIUM TO SHARE,
MY HAPPINESS, WITH THE WORLD.
THIS ALLURING & SUBLIME
CAROLINA PINK ROSE
IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR
ALL THE GROOVY PEOPLE.
BEAUTY IS ALIVE
AROUND YOU
AND
WITHIN YOU.
THIS RHODODENDRON ROSEUM ELEGANS
IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR BROOKE.
THIS
EXQUISITE
YELLOW ROSE
IS
MOST ESPECIALLY FOR
BROOKE.
THIS ALLURING
HEIRLOOM IRIS
IS ESPECIALLY FOR
BROOKE.
AN ALLURING
SOUTHERN
NODDING TRILLIUM
APRIL 24, 2024
THIS SPLENDID DAYLILY
IS ESPECIALLY FOR
BROOKE.
THIS RESPLENDENT
PINK TRILLIUM
IS INDEED GRAND.
Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum
THIS BUTTERCUP IN A RIOT OF
AZALEA FLOWERS
IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR
BROOKE.
THIS CHESTNUT SPINY CUPULE HAS COMPLETED IT'S CRADLING AND NURTURING OF THREE CHESTNUTS.
NATURE'S BEAUTY
AND
MYSTERY IS EVER ASTONISHING.
STAGHORN SUMAC'S
MAJESTIC PANICLE OF DRUPES.
STAGHORN SUMAC ABLAZE IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR
THE LOVERS OF FALL.
THE LOVERS OF FALL.
NANDINA'S
AUTUMN RADIANT GLOW
OH HOW HAPPY,
CHESTNUT LEAVES, FLOWERS,
AND AN AMAZING LOOKING SPINY CUPULE WHICH WILL BE THE HOME FOR THREE NEWBIE CHESTNUTS.
JULY 23, 2023
MYSTICAL TULIPS
December 27, 2023
Water lapping against a red cedar pier, Lake Michigan ebbs and flows at my feet and the gusty Northwest wind flow surrounds and pounds me. Nearby, I hear peepers in a riot of chorus vocalizing ebullient joy. Pink and blue cotton candy clouds flow and it's early May, and I am standing in a copse of Sugar maples and as far as I can see, there are multi-colored tulips bending with the freshening breeze and I see your face in the carpet of colors, smiling so sweetly and singing arias to the Indigo Buntings and sparrows zooming by. And, they swoop to the lovely and majestic cornucopia of fantastic hues of red, orange, yellow, and white blooms held by swaying and gyrating stems of green rising from the brown ground, your face among them all around. These tulips contain magic and are composed of perfect and deep love for sharing.
December 31, 2023
Just as Helen Of Troy's beauty launched a thousand ships, your face has that effect on the thousands of tulip flowers in this magnificent woodland meadow. The gyrating tulips begin to vibrate in unison creating a soothing motion that lulls the curious avians into a trance and the entire milleu begins to sway in dancelike movement reminiscent of Walt's Fantasia. And, soon the tulip flowers transform into bells and the thousands begin to create a handbell choir aural majestic concerto featuring Indigo Bunting soloists.
May 26, 2024
Sunset in the mystical tulip meadow; her face glows orange and the entire area is enveloped in a radiant glow of orange which is the reflection of her radiant face.
Flora has entered into this realm by transcendence from the goddess presence into the tulip sphere. Her wisdom and earthy perseverance have elevated her to the tulip queen of mystical elegance.
As flora enters her new world, the tulips sway and bend before her as she glides over the meadow. She is accompanied by hummingbirds and dragon flies followed by her favorite faerie goddesses, Neo and Nova, brightly bathed in her radiant orange glow.
The mystical tulips begin to gyrate and bend in a circular pattern around Tulip Queen Flora forming the golden spiral arising around Flora, like the shell of a nautilus in vibrant colors of orange, red, yellow, and white. the sounds of the woodland orchestra fill the meadow with ebullient notes and pleasurable stanzas of joyful arias sung to the Tulip Queen.
MAY 29, 2024
Today, the wind has blown FairyForce into the woodland surrounding my home. the heavily leaf-loaded verdant trees shook and swayed all day. Their gyrations made them appear to be large gyrating beasts. I saw Flora as a hummingbird this afternoon as I was trimming my front lawn hillside. She was the first hummingbird that I had seen this year. first the hummingbird swirled around the top of a chestnut tree and then zipped off to a nearby tulip poplar tree.
JUNE 22, 2024
Merrybells (Large-flowered Bellwort) Trout Lillies, and Great White Trilliums
Flora and her attendant nymphs, Nova & Neos, frolic in the woodland meadow calling hummingbirds. It is now May 16 and the vibrant beech, sugar maple, and hemlock forest has awakened. With songbird calls eloquently proclaiming Spring's rush and the great white trilliums have emerged from the moist soil. These Wake robins are accompanied by a floral resplendence of merrybells, trout lilies, squirrel corn, ramps, and Dutchman's breeches. A pair of hoot owls are jabbering as Flora turns into earth's Soil Fairy and dives beneath the rich mesic humus gliding along the trillium rhizomes throughout the meadow. Popping up in a trillium and resting on the pedicel with the trifoliate petals playing a game of hide and seek with her nymphs. Each trillium Flora entered, she poised on its pedicel calling to her nymphs to frolic over to it only to slide down one of the trifoliate leaves back into the soil to grasp its rhizome mass and scurry along the pathway to another trillium and repeat the exciting game.
On a late May Northwest breezy day, the freshening sky enveloped Flora and her nymphs in tow Merry, Lilly, Robin, Nicky, Flow, Zip, Sunny, Neos, and Nova.
The Northwest breezy day was so freshingly fun for Flora Fairy to fly to a sugar maple branch swaying in the stiffening breeze and set upon one of the leaves calling for her nymphs to play. Her attendants would catch the wind and land on nearby branches laughing and singing Flora love songs as she sashayed on the swaying leaf to and fro.
July 28, 2024
Two red-tailed hawks scouting for sustenance gliding hawking at 200 feet above my house. Black swallowtail butterfly navigating raindrops rising into the watery chestnut tree canopy. Flora transcends into the Swallowtail and guides hew new shape-shifting into an elegantly exquisite tiger swallowtail butterfly. Flora's mind was contemplating her newly crafted future. Living in the abundance of nature gifted shape-shifting by a loving Mother Gaia. Suddenly, flora new her destiny! She would introduce sentience to this especially delicate, nimble, and fast species.
Flora flitted off the chestnut leaf and zoomed out of the dripping wet canopy into the open spaces. Flora was now in search of other tiger swallowtails. Her majestic transcendent mission had begun.
In progress...
FEBRUARY 22,2025
Around 8:30 pm I went out on my deck to sky gaze. Venus had moved to the northwest and shone so prettily and sparkled. Your face was glowing and your hair was flowing. My heart skipped a beat and I looked straight up, the Zenith contained so many WinterSky celestials. At 90 degrees is Jupiter's crowning glory of radiance. Nearby reside The Seven Sisters, just a fist width to the West. Within, The Pleiades your face appeared again, of course, smiling at me. East of Jupiter is the Great Hunter, Orion and nearby to the Northeast, baying in the night, his loyal dog, Sirius, the brighest star.
A TRULY GOBSMACKING SUNRISE HORIZON
HAWKS BILL & TABLE ROCK
PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY
NOVEMBER 23, 2003
THE MAGNIFICENT IRONWEED
AN ELEGANT
SOUTHERN NODDING TRILLIUM'S SUBLIME HEART-SHAPED PRESENCE IN OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD.
WOW!
LOOK AT THIS
CROWN-TIPPED
CORAL MUSHROOM
AND BE AMAZED.
THIS supercalifragilistic
PINK TRILLIUM
IS expialidocious.
THESE RESPLENDENT 'SENTIMENTAL BLUE' BALLOON FLOWERS
ARE FOR YOU.
THIS ROSEUM ELEGANS RHODODENDRON
IS MOST ESPECIAALLY FOR
BROOKE.
THIS BUTTERCUP IN A RIOT OF
AZALEA FLOWERS
IS LIKE
GAIA'S PRESENCE WITHIN,
AROUND, AND THROUGHOUT
OUR LOVELY EARTH HOME.
A CASCADE OF NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN PARADISE
IS ESPECIALLY FOR
SETH.
GAIA GIVES BIRTH
TO THE EARTH
LOOK INSIDE THIS
PITCH PINE SOFTWOOD
AND
FIND GROOVINESS...
THE TORTOISE AND THE PEAR
IS ESPECIALLY FOR
NOAH
THIS IS A SOUTHERN NODDING TRILLIUM
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
PINK AND BLUE COTTON CANDY CLOUDS AND THE WESTERN HORIZON ON FIRE WITH THE SETTING SOL. THE SPECTRAL ARC OF LUNA AND JUPITER AND VENUS TICKLES MY ASTRONOMICAL FANCY AS I DANCE IN THE GLOAMING.
THE BEGINNING OF A METAPHYSICAL CONJUNCTION
JANUARY 27, 2023
THIS NIGHT'S SKY ILLUMINATES MY INNER MIND WITH THOUGHTS LIKE PUFFY CLOUDS ON ZEPHYRS, INDEED SUBLIME.
SATURN FALLING OFF THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE HORIZON FOLLOWED BY OUR SHINE-SO-BRIGHTLY SISTER VENUS, OUR LANTERN IN THE SKY. JUKING ALONG ZOOMS JUPITER AND LUNA'S INTO WAXING GIBBOUS ALRIGHT. JUST BEYOND LOOKING EASTWARD, NEAR POLARIS, MARS IN IT'S RUDDY GLOW;
OH, WHAT A SHOW.
MAGNIFICIENT CELESTIAL ALIGNMENT. MAGNIFICIENT CONJUNCTION OF TWO BEAUTIFUL BEINGS, LUXURIATING IN OUR METAPHYSICAL TRANCE, NOW IN A HARMONIOUS BOND OF GOBSMACKING STELLAR DELIGHT. THIS NIGHT'S SKY IS YOUR INNER METAPHYSICAL SOUL'S STRENGTH AWAKENING. IN YOUR EYES, GODDESS OF GROOVE, THIS STELLAR SPECTACLE REFLECTS YOUR INNER MAJESTIC GLOW AND AURAL TONES.
THIS IS MY
LUNAR LIT LANDSCAPE MASTERPIECE.
DECEMBER 25, 2018.
THIS MAJESTIC VISUAL CANDY
IS FOR
ALL THE GROOVY PEOPLE.
WINTER SOLSTICE SUNRISE
DECEMBER 21, 2014
SNOWDROPS
JANUARY 25, 2023
WHAT A
GROOVY SUNRISE
DECEMBER 18, 2014
THIS PINK AND BLUE COTTON CANDY CLOUDS
IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR CIARA.
JACKFROST ON MY KITCHEN STORM DOOR
ICE, WITH JAGS AND RIPPLES,
ON MY KITCHEN STORM DOOR WINDOW;
FROZEN, GOBSMACKING BEAUTY.
GOLDEN LEAF FALL
CHESTNUTS BURSTING FROM THEIR SPINY CUPULE ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE NATURAL WORLD EXPERIENCES TO OBSERVE.
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
WANING CRESCENT
MOONGLOW THROUGH THE TULIP POPLAR BRANCHES THIS MORNING AS I BEGAN TO STIR, A DRAMATIC NATURAL WORLD SCENE INVOLVING LUNA AND THE GLORIOUSLY STATELY NEWLY SHORN LEAF-SHEDDED TREES;
THE GUSTY WEST WIND SHAKING THE LEAF-BARE TRUNKS, BRANCHES, AND TWIGS, SWAYING, AS I OBSERVED SLEEPY-EYED SWOONING, VIGOROUSLY IN ITS BREEZE.
LOOKING WEST IN THE PREDAWN SKY ORION'S BELT STARS POINT TO PLEIADES IN THE TAURUS CONSTELLATION KNOWN AS THE SEVEN SISTERS.
BUBBLING BROOK
BABBLING
AUGUST 15, 2006
MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF MELANIE PATTERSON
SUBLIME
VISTA
AUGUST 9, 2019
TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES
FROLICKING IN THE TULIP POPLAR TREE CANOPY
FLEETING,
FREELY FALLING,
FLITTING,
FOCUSED GLIDING,
THE NUMEROUS TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES
SOAR
AND
FLUTTER
WITHIN
AND
THROUGHOUT
THE TULIP POPLAR CANOPIES.
YELLOW FLUTTERING
IN THE GREEN CANOPY
SEEKING A MATE
WITH SUPERIOR TRAITS.
BUTTERS FLYING
FLUTTERS FLOATING,
SWEEPING, SWAYING,
SASHAYING,
GLIDING, GYRATING,
GLEEFULLY
AMONG THE FLUTTERING POPLAR LEAVES,
FLOWING WITH THE EASTERN BREEZE.
WHIRLING DERVISHES
OF FANTASTIC DELIGHT;
FLITTING, FLUTTERING, FLOATING...
GAIA GLEEFULLY OBSERVES FROM THE TOP OF A TULIP POPLAR TREE,
PERCHED IN THE NEST OF AN EASTERN TOWHEE.
JULY 15, 2019
Queen Anne's Lace
full of grace,
katydids chirping for companionship:
Homo Sapiens on social media,
seeking the same.
Purple coneflower and Day-lilies,
having their day in the sun;
Hummingbirds hovering,
into and out of,
lavender Hosta flowers,
nectar and pollen,
making their day.
Iridescent black and blue Swallowtails
sweeping across Queen Anne's Lace;
Late afternoon thunderstorms,
and the Pheee Beeeee
of the Eastern Phoebe;
the Errrr Eeeeeeee
of the Eastern Towhee,
and the vibratory trilling, NnnnnnnnAaaa
of the White-breasted Nuthatch;
Late afternoon thunderstorms,
A colony of honeybees "throws a swarm;"
chestnuts in cupules,
expanding day by day;
Summertime, and Gaia smiles.
PSYCHEDELIC SUNRISE
THIS
GOLDEN ZUCCHINI
SQUASH BLOSSOM
IS ESPECIALLY FOR
ALL THE
GARDEN LOVERS
THESE
SUBLIME AND RESPLENDENT
POWDER BLUE
BALLOON FLOWERS
ARE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU.
GAIA'S REFLECTION IN THE MOISTURE SATURATED TROPOSPHERE;
EARTH MOTHER IS THE RAINBOW,
THE RAINBOW IS EARTH MOTHER;
GAIA IS THE REFLECTION OF THE RAINBOW
IN THE MOISTURE-LADEN AIR.
THREE CHESTNUTS
IN THEIR SPINY CUPULES
THIS RARE ALBINO
WHITE LADY'S SLIPPER
IS ESPECIALLY FOR
DR. ROSE.
THIS PLANT IS GROWING IN AN AREA RICH WITH PINK LADY'S SLIPPERS.
AN ABSTRACT OF
RED OAK TREE SHADOWS
ON
GAIA'S EARLY SPRING CARPET
THIS SPLENDID WHITE TRILLIUM IS FOR ALL THE GROOVY PEOPLE.
THIS SUBLIME
NODDING TRILLIUM
IS FOR ALL
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
RIME ICE ON RED OAK BRANCHES
AND A CAROLINA BLUE SKY
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG
MAY 15, 2018
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG,
MELODIC ARIAS OF GAIA'S
SUBLIME OPERA;
ROBIN'S SWEET SOUNDS OF AVIAN LOVE,
TOUCH THEIR BEAKS
WITH MAGIC
AND
MORNING DOVES JOIN IN WITH
SOFT MURMURING COOS.
RED-CRESTED WOODPECKER BURSTING
WITH JOYFULLY AUDIBLE EXCITEMENT,
IN THE DISTANCE,
BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER
AWAKENS THE HENS;
AND
CROWS CACKLING CACOPHONY,
IN A SYCOPHANTIC UNISON,
GAIA'S ORATORIO GUSTO...
AND
THE CRESCENDO BEGINS AS
THE RUFFED GROUSE
FLAPS HIS WINGS,
WITH SPEEDS SIMILAR TO HUMMINGBIRDS
DRUMMING ON THE TULIP POPLAR STUMP,
LIKE TYMPANI THRUMMING,
FELINE FEROCITY
CLAWS AT THE BASE OF A CHESTNUT TREE,
AND
BIRDS TAKE TO THE WING...
AND
THEN THE BLUEBIRD FAMILY ARRIVES
TO FILL IN WITH SWEET MELODIC ARIAS;
UNTIL THE JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK
ARRIVES WITH A SCREAMING
CREENING KEE-EEEEE-ARR.
AND
GAIA,
HOLDING THE BATON,
CONDUCTS,
SMILES,
AND
SIGHS,
ANOTHER DAY IN HER
GLORIOUS PARADISE...
THIS SYCAMORE BARK
& FALLING LEAF
OCTOBER 21, 2013,
IS FOR
YOU.
GAIA GIVES BIRTH
TO THE EARTH
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Your aura is radiance;
blue moon fever and windblown terrain;
your smile is alive with essence of sunshine.
Your aura is firelight;
blue moon fever and windblown terrain;
your essence, firelight.
Your aura is an out flowing of your essence;
pure radiance.
Your eyes, firelight;
your essence, blue moon fever and windblown terrain; your strength, ocean wave. Sweet tea, sweet potato, sweet times,
flavors and rhymes;
firelight, blue moon fever and wind blown terrain; your eyes alive,
your essence, sweet times. Your eyes, firelight;
your essence, blue moon fever and windblown terrain; your strength, ocean wave. Your aura is an out flowing of your essence;
pure radiance.
Wind and fire;
sound and fury;
pop corn in the kettle; aroma of earth;
New flown bird;
tree line swaying; windblown terrain;
volcanic power
unleashed in air;
just like you, rare.
fly on little one;
fly and be free;
sunshine essence
in your wings.
Blue moon fever,
windblown terrain;
night alive
with fury and sound.
Ocean wave, surf streaming under crunchy pebbles and shells of long past life.
A life lived,
a life of happiness,
a life of fulfillment;
your eyes, firelight;
your essence,
blue moon fever and windblown terrain;
Your strength, ocean wave.
MAY 31, 2020
Air,
sky,
blue stones in the creek,
your eyes,
your hair,
your cheek.
Your hand,
my hand,
friends on an Island.
Smiles and laughter,
euphoria and mirth,
we are human
by our birth,
we are free,
as the breeze.
that flows through
the trees.
dazzling and lustrous
stars
in the sky,
Air.
APRIL 21, 2021
GAIA
SHAKES
AND
SQUALLS,
THE NORTHWEST
ARTIC BLAST;
SCOURING OUR NEWLY ANOINTED SPRING EMERGENT FLORA,
WITH
GUSTY SHUDDERS AND FRIGID FLUTTERS.
THE TINY NARROW LEAVES AND FLORAL TEPALS
OF GRAPE HYACINTH,
ARE CONFUSED BY THE DELUGE OF
BRUTAL COLD WIND
AND
ALL AVIAN FRIENDS ARE ABSENT.
JOYOUSLY, I AM SURE GAIA IS NESTLED WITH EACH OF THE SONIC SWEETLINGS.
THE WOODED SEA
MARCH 10, 2021
IN A SEA OF TREES,
I AM A TREE,
IN A SEA OF TREES;
I AM FREE,
TO BE A TREE,
IN A SEA OF TREES.
I AM A TULIP POPLAR,
GAIA RESIDES
IN MY CANOPY,
IN THE NEST OF AN
EASTERN TOHEE.
I AM A TREE,
IN A SEA OF TREES...
AUGUST 15, 2006
MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF MELANIE PATTERSON
June 20, 2006
Bistro Roca
Blowing Rock, NC
Executive Chef Michael Foreman
VANCE TOE RIVER LODGE
PLUMTREE, NC
JULY 31, 2007
EXECUTIVE CHEF WILL YOUNG
JOE'S ITALIAN KITCHEN
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF JOE CARFARO
AUGUST 28, 2007
PART 1
JOE'S ITALIAN KITCHEN
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF JOE CARFARO
AUGUST 28, 2007
PART 2
COYOTE KITCHEN
BOONE, NC
AUGUST 30, 2005
EXECUTIVE CHEF MICHAEL NELSON
BENJAMIN STRUTTIN'
HIS TERRITORIAL "STUFF"
A SPLENDID AND SUBLIME
TULIP POPLAR FLOWER
CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT CONJUNCTION
DECEMBER 23, 2020
TWIN BEAMS
COALESCING INTO ONE;
SATURN AND JUPITER
CONJUNCTION.
COPERNICAN REVOLUTION,
GALILEAN MOONS,
IO, EUROPA,
GANYMEDE, AND CALISTO,
JUPITER'S ORBITALS;
THE LACY FRINGES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM FLIRTING,
WITHIN OUR
TERRAN SIGHT.
LATER, LUNA AND THE RED PLANET GRACE OUR VIEW,
THOUGHTS OF HEINLEIN AND MUSK,
ROCKETING EARTHLINGS TO MARS, ANEW.
DECEMBER 11, 2020
SOLAR FLARES,
YOUR HAIR;
RAYS OF SUNSHINE,
YOUR SMILE,
SUBLIME.
WITHIN,
COURSES THE ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS OF THE RAINBOW,
IN THE HUMAN VISIBLE SPECTRUM;
VIOLET,
INDIGO,
BLUE,
GREEN,
YELLOW,
ORANGE,
RED.
AND THAT SAID,
ENJOY LIFE AND SHARE KINDNESS.
WHOOSH, CRASH, SPLASH
DECEMBER 1, 2020
YOUR EYES ARE AS THE STARS;
YOUR EYES ARE STELLAR PORTALS
AND
YOUR SMILE RADIATES MOONBEAMS.
YOUR BEAUTY IS LIKE WALKING ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER.
YOUR SMILE IS AS THE
WHOOSH, CRASH, SPLASH
OF THE RAPIDS.
YOUR LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL PRESCENCE
IN OUR WORLD.
MY SOUL LONGS TO SHARE FRIENDSHIP WITH YOUR SOUL.
AS THE FULL MOON WAS BEING ECLIPSED BY OUR EARTH'S PENUMBRA,,
I SAW YOUR EYES IN THE CLOUDS, RADIANTLY AGLOW, EMBELISHED
WITH A RAINBOW.
YOUR EYES ARE ORION
AS IT TRAVERSES THE SKY,
AND
I AM GOBSMACKED...
FOR
THE GODDESS,
STEVIE NICKS
THE SKY
YOUR EYES,
THE EARTH
YOUR ESSENCE,
AND YOUR GROUND.
THE WIND
YOUR VOICE.
THE LIGNTNING FLASHES
HIGHLIGHTENING
YOUR LASHES;
YOUR EYES,
SWEET COLORS
OF
BLUE, GREEN AND GOLD;
A VELVETY AQUAMARINE SHEEN,
THE RAINBOW ON EARTH,
MOONGLOW
IN THE EARLY MORN,
FLOWING AMONGST THE CLOUDS;
YOUR LIFE ALIVE IN MINE,
DANCING IN THE GLOAMING...
OCTOBER 1, 2020
THE SKY
YOUR EYES
THE EARTH
YOUR ESSENCE
AND YOUR GROUND.
THE WIND
YOUR VOICE
THE LIGNTNING
LIGHTS UP YOUR EYES
THE RAINBOW
THE MOOGLOW IN THE EARLY MORN,
YOUR LIFE ALIVE IN MINE,
DANCING IN THE GLOAMING...
JUNE 21, 2020
Sol shine
Your smile;
moonbeams,
Your eyes;
ocean waves,
Your hair;
volcanic fire,
Your enduring strength
and
tenacious desire.
Your smile is as the
super moon,
on a windswept night;
as the rising sun on the Summer Solstice,
this day,
the twenty first of June.
May 26, 2020
Morning doves,
birds in love,
cooing,
as they sift
and pick up grit;
Scarlet Cardinal
perched,
upon the green fence post,
chants his territorial trill.
Mama red bird,
hither and thither,
between new-mown grass
and her holly-berry protected nest,
in her never-ending quest;
Downy Woodpecker's incessant hammering,
and the whole milieu in sonic jubilee.
Gaia's baton
oscillates in 4/4 time...
LANTERN IN THE SKY
YOUR EYES, LIKE VENUS,
YOUR LIPS, LIKE SATURN,
YOUR FACE, LIKE LUNA,
YOUR HAIR SHINES,
UNLIKE ANY OTHER
PLANET OR STAR.
YOUR BEAUTY, AS THE SUNSET ON A
LAKE OF TRANQUILITY,
YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE IS RADIANT,
YOUR EYES ARE MEDALLIONS OF LIVING TREASURES,
YOUR HAIR IS LIKE A WATERFALL
CASCADING.
YOUR EYES ARE LIKE
WALT DISNEY'S DREAMS.
YOUR SMILE IS LIKE A SUNRISE.
YOUR BEING IN THIS WORLD, STIMULATES MY POETRY...
THE SHAPE OF YOUR CHIN,
THE ANGLE OF YOUR FACE,
YOUR FABULOUS HAIR,
AND YOUR SPECIAL GRACE,
ARE EVOCATIVE TO ME.
APRIL 30, 2020
There is a tulip poplar leaf, there is
There is a chestnut leaf, there is
one a globular configuration of mystical photosynthetic prowess,
and
the other a saber-like photosynthetic power of extraordinary sublimity;
both leaves, composed of
collenchyma, parenchyma, sclerenchyma,
xylem and phloem;
bubblingly alive with water,
effervescently alive with carbon dioxide,
foundationally alive with minerals,
and
extravagantly supplied with copious sunbeams.
Chloroplasts filled with stroma-rich chlorophyll,
There is photosynthate, there is
There is glucose, there is
There is oxygen, there is
There is life, there is...
MARCH 1, 2020
You are Earth,
Goddess Gaia,
I am air;
lightning and volcanoes,
WE are FIRE.
MARCH 1, 2020
LUNA,
VENUS, AND JUPITER,
TRIUNE POLYGON
STELLAR SPECTACLE,
WITH GLADNESS,
I BEHOLD;
YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE AND EVOCATIVE EYES,
AROUSE IN ME, JUBILANT SIGHS.
MARCH 1, 2020
SNOW MELTS IN THE FIELDS AND FORESTS,
AS SOL WARMS OUR EARTH.
YOUR RADIANT POWER,
IN MY SOUL,
MELTS MY HEARTFUL OF WOUNDS,
AND
MY SOULFUL OF PAIN.
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Your eyes,
evocatively glow,
showers of sunshine
and
sparkles of snow.
Flows of assertive strength;
your presence,
in our world;
it's width and depth,
and length,
is volcanic...
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
VALENTINE'S DAY,
WITHOUT
A
VALENTINE.
WHAT IS THAT LIKE ?
FOR ME,
A STAR SAPPHIRE,
WITHOUT
THE
STAR.
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
YOUR EYES,
SEA SHELLS, ALIVE;
YOUR SMILE,
PEARLS AND GARNET GLOWING,
LAUGHTER FLOWING...
OCEAN WAVES,
HAPPY DAYS,
WALKING, HAND IN HAND,
OUR FEET IN THE SAND AND SURF.
MOMENTS OF TIME,
NEVER ENOUGH.
THIS PHOTO IS FOR
ALL THE COOL PEOPLE;
A MESMERIZINGLY SURREAL
ICE FORMATION,
ON MY KITCHEN STORM DOOR.
CASCADING
WATER,
ESSENCE
OF LIFE...
January 22, 2020
Peace and Beauty, golden hues and blues; evocative eyes and ebullient smile.
Sounds of rushing water in the cascading creek, Your glow, like a yellow trout lily, in all of it's exuberant presentation, early in the Spring.
Your smile is like the ultra
rare, white Lady's slipper,
nestled in the shade of
laurel and ivy, within an
Appalachian cove forest.
YOUR EYES ARE AS ORION TRAVERSING THE SKY; YOUR LIPS AS OCEAN WAVES KISSING THE SHORE.
I HEAR YOUR LOVELY VOICE IN AURAL TONES WITHIN CONCH SEASHELL HORNS. YOUR RADIANTLY RAPTUROUS LOCKS OF GOLDEN BROWN, HIGHLIGHT YOUR EYES AND SMILE.
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT, SPEAK UNTO ME;
YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE,
YOU ARE THE BRIGHTEST OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, PLEIADES.
YOUR EYES, IN THE SKIES, WITH SAPPHIRES.
YOUR SMILE, ALIVE WITH STYLE;
MY HEART FEELS YOUR HEARTBEAT...
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT, SPEAK UNTO ME;
IN YOUR EYES, I SEE SKIES.
YOUR SMILE IS A RAINBOW;
YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE,
YOU ARE THE BRIGHTEST OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, PLEIADES.
YOUR EYES, IN THE SKIES, WITH SAPPHIRES.
YOUR SMILE, ALIVE WITH STYLE;
MY HEART FEELS YOUR HEARTBEAT...
LOVE BEADS, BLACK LIGHT POSTERS,
SUEDE LEATHER PURSES,
1970 SOUNDTRACK;
I FEEL YOU IN MY HIPPIE STORE.
GROOVY !
CINNAMON, NUTMEG, ORANGES;
FRAGRANCES OF OUR HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA.
EVERGREEN ESSENCE, MISTLETOE; ICE CYCLES AND YOUR FACE, PRESSED AGAINST THE FROSTY WINDOW.
I AM JUST OUTSIDE, ENAMORED WITH YOUR SHINING, STAR-LIKE RADIANCE.
FANTASTICALLY AMAZING SNOW & PINE NEEDLE WREATH
FOR ALL THE COOL PEOPLE
SWEET SNOW ANGEL
DECEMBER, 11, 2019
SWEET SNOW ANGEL,
AS I GAZED UPON MY WESTERN DECK,
ENCASED IN SNOW,
LIT, BRILLIANTLY,
BY LUNA'S RADIANT GLOW,
ICE CRYSTALS SHIMMERED,
AND YOUR PRESENCE
IN
MY
MIND,
FLICKERED & GLIMMERED.
SWEET AND TENDER MEMORIES
OF OUR YESTERDAY'S MOMENTS,
SHONE IN THE GLOWING...
YOUR FACE,
LUNA'S RADIANCE,
OUR EYES,
OUR SMILES,
OUR DESIRES,
OUR HOPES,
ALL CAME TOGETHER,
FOR ME,
WITH YOUR GRACIOUS FRIENDLY HUG.
I WILL BE EVER GRATEFUL FOR YOUR GIFT.
SWEET SNOW ANGEL,
IN MY VIEW,
YOU ARE VERY NEAR,
AND I WISH THAT I COULD HEAR,
YOUR FUN AND ENGAGING VOICE.
I WOULD BE HAPPY TO BREW
A POT OF COFFEE
FOR YOU,
AND SEND IT DOWN THE MOUNTAIN,
TO YOU,
BY FRISBEE.
SWEET SNOW ANGEL,
LIT BY LUNA,
IN MY MIND,
IN MY HEART,
IN MY SOUL.
YOUR KINDNESS,
THRILLS ME,
AND YOU ARE APPRECIATED,
SWEET SNOW ANGEL.
LANTERN IN THE SKY
JUNE, 3, 1018
YOUR EYES, LIKE VENUS,
YOUR LIPS, LIKE SATURN,
YOUR FACE, LIKE LUNA,
YOUR HAIR SHINES,
UNLIKE ANY OTHER
PLANET OR STAR.
YOUR BEAUTY, AS THE SUNSET ON A
LAKE OF TRANQUILITY,
YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE IS RADIANT,
YOUR EYES ARE MEDALLIONS OF LIVING TREASURES,
YOUR HAIR IS LIKE A WATERFALL CASCADING.
YOUR EYES ARE LIKE
WALT DISNEY'S DREAMS.
YOUR SMILE IS LIKE A SUNRISE.
YOUR BEING IN THIS WORLD, STIMULATES MY POETRY...
THE SHAPE OF YOUR CHIN,
THE ANGLE OF YOUR FACE,
YOUR FABULOUS HAIR,
AND YOUR SPECIAL GRACE,
ARE EVOCATIVE TO ME.
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
ICE-CRUSTED
CHESTNUT LEAVES,
SWAYING IN THE BREEZE,
ICE AND SLEET TUMBLING,
SNOW BLOWING;
MY FIREPLACE ROARING;
A POT OF CHILI
ON THE STOVE
AND A CAKE OF CORNBREAD
IN THE CAST IRON SKILLET,
WINTER HAS ARRIVED.
FULL MOON TUESDAY NIGHT,
LUNA RULES THE SKY BRIGHT.
LUNA SHINE,
MOONSHINE,
STUNNING STELLAR SPECTACLE,
ICE & SLEET
& BLOWING SNOW,
SNOW PACK SPARKLES,
SOLID WATER PENTACLES,
CRYSTALS GLITTERING,
REFLECTING LUNA'S RADIANCE.
LUNA RULES
THE SKY AT NIGHT.
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
TULIP POPLAR LEAVES ZOOMING,
EAST TO NORTH ON A BLUSTERY BREEZE;
LEAVES ON THE WING,
LEAVES IN THE WIND;
GUSTING FLURRIES,
LEAFY WINGS AND STEMS,
LIKE KITES AT THE BEACH
WITH TAILS FLOWING,
FURLING, FLUTTERING;
NOT LIKE THE BEACH WIND;
ONLY ONE OF A KIND,
TRULY MOUNTAIN WIND,
GUSTING, RUSHING, WHOOSHING,
TULIP POPLAR LEAVES ZOOMING,
LIKE STARS SHOOTING...
PETIOLES CLEAVING FROM
TREE BRANCH NODES,
LEAVES AND STEMS ZOOMING
WITH THE WINDY CURRENTS,
TO THEIR EARTH BEDS;
HUMUS...
SWEET,
WHEN I SEE YOUR FACE,
I SEE THE SUNRISE IN THE EASTERN SKY,
WHEN I SEE YOUR FACE,
I SEE LUNA
SHIMMERING
IN THE
TULIP POPLAR TREES,
SWAYING IN THE BREEZE. YOUR EYES ARE AGLOW WITH MAGIC...
OCTOBER 21, 2019
MISTS,
MOUNTAINS,
MISTY MOUNTAINS;
SUNRAYS ON THE MISTY MOUNTAINS.
YELLOW TULIP POPLAR LEAF
FLUTTERING IN THE BREEZE.
MOUNTAIN TOPS APPEARING
EPHEMEARLY,
THROUGH
THE MORNING MOVING MISTS.
CASCADING THROUGH
THE CREVICES, RIDGES,
AND
OVER THE MAGNIFICIENTLY COLORED CANOPY.
A CORNUCOPIA PATCHWORK QUILT,
OF 2019'S FOUR SEASON'S ENERGIES.
IN MY MIND,
I SEE,
YOUR LOVELY FORM,
YOUR EYES AGLOW,
AND
YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE.
REJOICE,
WE ARE ONE...
STAGHORN SUMAC ABLAZE
IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR ANA & ELON.
OCTOBER 19, 2019
THE WANING OCTOBER MOON,
IS ILLUMINATING THE
ORION CONSTELLATION;
YOUR GRACEFUL STAR-LIKE PRESENCE
IN OUR WORLD, SHINES AS PLEIADES GLOWS JUST WEST OF ORION.
YOUR EYES, SPARKLING,
YOUR SMILE, EBULLIENT,
WITH STRENGTH AND LAUGHTER.
THE SEVEN SISTERS,
WISH THEY WERE AS
EVOCATIVELY BEAUTIFUL
AS YOU...
OCTOBER 17, 2019
TWILIGHT,
YOUR EYES
AND
VENUS IN THE
WESTERN SKY.
DAWN,
YOUR SMILE
AND
LUNA'S LUMINESCENCE.
MORNING,
YOUR HAIR,
FLOWING IN THE NORTHWEST GUSTY WIND,
MY GUITAR'S SWEETLY SONOROUS CADENCES,
IN TIME WITH YOUR DANCE.
AFTERNOON,
YOUR EYES,
YOUR SMILE,
YOUR HAIR,
THE SKY,
THE EARTH,
OUR HAPPINESS...
OCTOBER 16, 2019
WISHIN' YOU COULD SEE
LEAVES RACING AROUND
IN CIRCLES,
WHIRLING DERVISHES;
WIND GUSTING,
LEAVES HUSTLING INTO
SCURRYING CIRCLES...
YOUR HAIR, WIND BLOWN,
YOUR SMILE, MY MIND BLOWN.
BURNING BUSH AFLAME,
MY VITAL ESSENCE ON FIRE,
WHEN YOU CALL MY NAME.
OCTOBER 14, 2019
AUTUMN IS
SILVERY TREE TRUNKS,
BOUNTIFUL SKIES,
COLORFUL SHAPES,
MOUNTAIN SPIRES;
YOUR FACE
LIT WITH SOL,
YOUR ESSENCE,
LIT WITH MAGIC
IN MY MIND...
THE LANTERN,
VENUS,
ILLUMINATES THE WESTERN HORIZON,
YOUR FACE ILLUMINATES
MINE.
WHIRLING
DERVISHES
OF OUR LAUGHTER
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
YOUR SMILE
AND
MY SMILE;
YOUR EYES
AND
MY EYES;
OUR HEART-TO-HEART CONVERSATIONS,
OUR SOUL-TO-SOUL DREAMS,
YOUR SPIRIT
AND
MY SPIRIT
ENGAGED
IN
EXISTENTIAL GROWTH,
CONJURING
OUR VITAL FORCE.
EMPATHY,
KINDNESS,
HONESTY,
AND
RESPECT.
OUR FRIENDSHIP,
OUR HAPPINESS.
YOUR SMILE
AND
MY SMILE.
WHIRLING DERVISHES
OF OUR LAUGHTER,
FILL THE AUTUMN AIR...
OCTOBER 9, 2019
YOUR SMILE
AND
MY SMILE,
YOUR EYES
AND
MY EYES,
YOUR HEART
AND
MY HEART;
OUR PERFECT MATCH.
IN BIRD SONG,
YOUR VOICE.
IN BIRD FLIGHT,
YOUR GRACE.
IN BIRD'S NESTING,
OUR REJOICING,
BIRDS TWEETING
IN THE WOODS.
MY HEART BEATING
FOR YOU.
SUNSHINE,
FRESH AIR,
YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR.
MY WORDS,
YOUR MIND,
OUR HEART'S
ENTWINED.
NANDINA BERRIES
IN THEIR GLORIOUS
FALL EXUBERANCE
THE ESSENCE OF RAINBOW COLORS
RED IS THE COLOR OF THE SUNSET
IN THE WESTERN SKY,
ORANGE IS THE COLOR OF THE POPSICLE
I LOVED MOST AS A CHILD.
YELLOW IS THE ESSENCE OF BANANA AND LEMON,
GREEN IS THE COLOR OF TREE LEAVES NOW SPRINGING.
BLUE IS THE COLOR OF THE SKY
CERULEAN, CYAN, AND AZURE.
INDIGO IS THE DEEP COLOR OF PURPLE AND BLUE
COMBINING INTO THIS DAZZLING HUE.
VIOLET, THE ESSENCE OF DEEP PURPLES
OF AMETHYST AND LAVENDER.
AND
VIOLA, THE GENUS OF FLORAL BEAUTIES;
VIOLETS ARE WHAT I SEND TO YOU THIS DAY.
AS THE SKY ERUPTS WITH BURSTS OF THUNDER
AND
THE HEAVILY-LADEN SUPERSATURATED CLOUDS
DRENCH THE LANDSCAPE.
I WATCH AMUSED AND CURIOUS FROM MY WINDOW FACING WEST.
THE DISTANT HORIZON IS BRIGHT WITH SUN-LADEN CUMULUS FORMATION QUICKLY EVOLVING INTO CUMULONIMBUS DARK GRAY SWOLLEN WITH AQUA AND EMPTYING UPON THE EARTH WITH POWER BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION.
IF OUR METAPHYSICAL LIVES,
COULD BE SO ENRICHED,
WITH THE FULLNESS OF THIS POWER,
THIS SPLENDID
ROSEUM ELEGANS RHODODENDRON
IS FOR
ALL THE COOL PEOPLE
THIS EVOCATIVE & SUBLIME IRIS
IS FOR
LOVERS
NANDINA IN ALL IT'S
GLORIOUS FALL
PRESENTATION
MAJESTIC
CHEROKEE PRINCESS
DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS
AND A SPECTACULAR
CAROLINA BLUE SKY
CHESTNUT CUPULES
WITH THEIR NEEDLE-SHARP SPINES
AUGUST 9, 2019
YELLOW SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES
FROLICKING IN THE TULIP POPLAR TREE CANOPY
FLEETING,
FREELY FALLING,
FLITTING,
FOCUSED GLIDING,
THE NUMEROUS YELLOW SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES
SOAR
AND
FLUTTER
WITHIN
AND
THROUGHOUT
THE TULIP POPLAR CANOPIES.
YELLOW FLUTTERING
IN THE GREEN CANOPY,
SEEKING A MATE
WITH SUPERIOR TRAITS.
BUTTERS FLYING
FLUTTERS FLOATING,
SWEEPING, SWAYING,
SASHAYING,
GLIDING, GYRATING,
GLEEFULLY
AMONG THE FLUTTERING POPLAR LEAVES,
FLOWING WITH THE EASTERN BREEZE.
WHIRLING DERVISHES
OF FANTASTIC DELIGHT;
FLITTING, FLUTTERING, FLOATING...
GAIA GLEEFULLY OBSERVES FROM THE TOP OF A TULIP POPLAR TREE,
PERCHED IN THE NEST OF AN EASTERN TOWHEE.
MAY 15, 2018
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG,
MELODIC ARIAS OF GAIA'S SUBLIME OPERA;
ROBIN'S SWEET SOUNDS OF AVIAN LOVE,
TOUCH THEIR BEAKS
WITH MAGIC
AND
MORNING DOVES JOIN IN WITH
SOFT MURMURING COOS.
RED-CRESTED WOODPECKER BURSTING
WITH JOYFULLY AUDIBLE EXCITEMENT,
IN THE DISTANCE,
BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER
AWAKENS THE HENS;
AND
CROWS CACKLING CACOPHONY,
IN A SYCOPHANTIC UNISON,
GAIA'S ORATORIO GUSTO...
AND
THE CRESCENDO BEGINS AS
THE RUFFED GROUSE
FLAPS HIS WINGS,
WITH SPEEDS SIMILAR TO HUMMINGBIRDS
DRUMMING ON THE TULIP POPLAR STUMP,
LIKE TYMPANI THRUMMING,
FELINE FEROCITY
CLAWS AT THE BASE OF A CHESTNUT TREE,
AND
BIRDS TAKE TO THE WING...
AND
THEN THE BLUEBIRD FAMILY ARRIVES
TO FILL IN WITH SWEET MELODIC ARIAS;
UNTIL THE JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK
ARRIVES WITH A SCREAMING
CREENING KEE-EEEEE-ARR.
AND
GAIA, HOLDING THE BATON,
CONDUCTS,
SMILES,
AND
SIGHS,
ANOTHER DAY IN HER GLORIOUS PARADISE...
GAIA AND CHAOS
JULY 31, 2019
AGILE GODDESS,
NIMBLE SPRITE,
SLIPS INTO MY CONSCIOUSNESS STREAM.
GRACIOUS GAIA,
PRIMORDIAL MOTHER
SINGS A LULLABY,
IN
EBULLIENT BIRDSONG,
LEAVES RUSTLING IN THE BREEZE,
AND
THE BILLION-FOLD PITTER-PATTER OF RAINDROPS.
SOOTHING SUSURRATION...
JULY 29, 2019
LOVING
LIVING
MOMENTS
OF
SUNSHINE
AND
COOL TEMPS,
BRING SUCH
BOUNTIFUL
JOY;
LAVENDER HOSTA FLOWERS
PROVIDE NECTAR,
TO
RUBY-THROATED,
GREEN-BACKED HUMMINGBIRDS
FLITTING,
FLOATING,
FLUTTERING,
FEEDING;
FEELINGS,
VIBRANT WITH COLORS,
ALIVE WITH HOPE,
AND
LOVING GAIA.
PRIMORDIAL
EARTH MOTHER
UNITES
LIFE FORCE;
EARTH'S
CLAY,
LIPID,
AMINO ACIDS,
AND
NUCLEOTIDE
PRECURSORS,
CO-MINGLED WITH
MARS-SEEDED,
METEORIC
PROTO-BACTERIA.
SUPERLATIVE
ELUCIDATION !
JULY 23, 2019
OVERWHELMING
FULLNESS
OF ATMOSPHERIC
RAIN, FOG,
AND
MOISTURE SATURATION;
GAIA
WELCOMES YOU
TO THIS DAY,
WITH EXPECTATION
OF
TOMORROW'S
SUNSHINE,
CAROLINA BLUE SKY,
AND
COOLING
RESTORATION...
JULY 15, 2019
QUEEN ANNE'S LACE
FULL OF GRACE,
KATYDIDS CHIRPING FOR COMPANIONSHIP;
HOMO SAPIENS ON SOCIAL MEDIA,
SEEKING THE SAME.
PURPLE CONEFLOWER AND DAY LILIES,
HAVING THEIR DAY IN THE SUN;
HUMMINGBIRDS HOVERING,
INTO AND OUT OF,
LAVENDER HOSTA FLOWERS,
NECTAR AND POLLEN,
MAKING THEIR DAY.
IRIDESCENT BLACK AND BLUE SWALLOWTAILS
SWEEPING ACROSS QUEEN ANNE'S LACE;
LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS,
AND
THE PHEEE BEEEEEEEEEEE
OF THE EASTERN PHOEBE,
THE ERRRR EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
OF THE EASTERN TOWHEE,
AND
THE VIBRATORY TRILLING,
NNNNNNNNNAAAA
OF THE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH;
CHESTNUTS IN SPINY CUPULES,
EXPANDING DAY BY DAY;
SUMMERTIME,
AND
GAIA
SMILES...
GAIA'S
GIFT FOR YOU,
DURING THIS
RAINY TIME;
AN EVOCATIVELY
SPLASHY,
RADIANT,
ENCHANTING,
AND
SUBLIME
IRIS
JULY 11, 2019
LET'S WALK IN THE PARK:
ENJOYING COMPANIONSHIP
AND
EXERCISE,
LISTENING TO CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER,
AND
EBULLIENT BIRDSONG;
WATCHING ROBINS STRUTTING AND ZOOMING,
AND
BUTTERFLIES FLITTING AND FLUTTERING,
AND
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS
HOVERING AND HUMMING,
AND
NECTAR AND POLLEN GATHERING
HONEY BEES;
THE DANCING QUEENS OF THE NATURAL WORLD.
THE VIBRANT SOUNDS AND EXUBERANT SIGHTS
OF
WALKING IN THE PARK...
THIS HEART-RENDING
POEM,
WAS INSPIRED,
AND IS
ESPECIALLY
FOR,
EVERYONE WHO HAS
EXPERIENCED
ROMANTIC LOSS.
JUNE 21, 2019
METAPHYSICAL
PATHWAYS
INTO
THE KNOWN
UNKNOWN
SHOCKING BLUE
ULTRAVIOLET
STREAKS
ACROSS THE SKY
AND
PHANTASMAGORICAL
YELLOW AND AQUAMARINE
HIDDEN CORNERS,
OF
LAST NIGHT'S
DREAMSCAPE;
CEREBRAL
FLUID
MOVING CURRENTS
OF
PRIMORDIAL
AND
EPISTEMOLOGICAL
LIFE
TRANSITIONS
UNKNOWN,
YET
METAPHYSICALLY
KNOWN,
ERUPT
WITH
CATACLYSMIC
YET,
SYNERGISTIC
PRESCIENT
PROTOPLASM,
OF
LOST PARADISE,
CASCADING
INTO
ENERGETICALLY
RIPPLED
WAVELENGTHS,
WHICH
SOLARIZE,
AND
THEN
COMMENCE
TO
CO-JOIN,
COINCIDE,
AND
POPULATE,
FOR ME,
THIS
EXISTENTIAL MOMENT,
UPON
WINDSWEPT
EMERGING
FLOWER SPIKES,
AND
VIVID VERDANT
LEAVES
OF CHESTNUT TREES;
JUXTAPOSED
LANDSCAPES
WITH
AUTONOMOUSLY
CONTROLLED,
NEURONAL
FED
REALSCAPES.
SWEET & TART SALSA
INGREDIENTS
SUNLIT MISTS
KISSING THE MOUNTAINS
GOOD MORNING MOONSHINE,
EARTH SAYS HELLO;
YOU GLOW ABOVE US,
WE SNUGGLE BELOW.
AUGUST 15, 2006
MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY
BOONE, NC
MELANIE PATTERSON
JUNE 19, 2007
THE MANOR HOUSE
CHETOLA RESORT
BLOWING ROCK, NC
SOUS-CHEF SETH PARKER
PART 2
JUNE 21, 2005
CASA RUSTICA
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF JOHN GOODSON
PART 1
JUNE 21, 2005
CASA RUSTICA
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF JOHN GOODSON
PART 2
AUGUST 7, 2007
PSSGHETTI'S
EXECUTIVE CHEF BEN ALLISON
PART 1
BIRDS ON THE WING,
MAKE MY HEART SING
THANKSGIVING 2018
TOAST AND JAM STUDIO
GOLDEN LEAF FALL
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
FRILLY, VERDANT FERN FRONDS
ADORNING THE MOUNTAINSIDE
ARE GLORIOUS AND JUBILANT
WITH PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENERGY
AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE.
MOST OF THE TREES ON THIS MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN TOP
ARE TULIP POPLARS
AND THEY
ARE KISSED WITH FALL'S GOLDEN HUES.
GOLDEN LEAF FALL IS PRANCING BEFORE MY HOME THIS MORNING
AND
I AM REJOICING BECAUSE
GAIA IS BY MY SIDE.
THE FIRST GOLDEN LEAF FALL TOUCHES THE SKY
AND
SWEEPS ACROSS THE LAND MAGNIFICENTLY FLOATING
ON A ZEPHYR AND
CASCADING WHIRLWIND
AND
WHIRLING DERVISHES FILL THE AIR WITH
LEAF LAUGHTER AND
JUBILEE.
GOLDEN LEAVES FALLING
AND
VERDANT FERN FRONDS FRILLING.
GAIA'S LOVE IS THRILLING
AND
FULFILLING.
GAIA IS MY LIFE.
BENJAMIN STRUTTIN'
HIS TERRITORIAL "STUFF"
ALL LEAVES FLIRT WITH FRESHENING BREEZES
NOVEMBER 11, 2018
THIS WINDY AND BREEZE SWEPT MORNING,
WHILE SIMMERING YELLOW CORN GRITS ON THE BACK BURNER,
THE EMERGENT CLOUD COVER ENVELOPED MY WESTERN VISTA.
WINDSWEPT MAPLE LEAVES,
BROWN, FROM THEIR LONG SEASON'S LIFE,
FLEW FAST AND FURIOUSLY IN SQUALLS.
THEIR RESTING PLACE,
THE PUNGENT GROUND, IN THIS TULIP POPLAR GROVE,
ON THIS MOUNTAIN TOP.
CHESTNUT LEAVES FLYING SIDEWAYS,
WITH THIS SOUTHWEST WIND,
MAPLE LEAVES, BROWN WITH LONGEVITY,
FURIOUSLY FLOW IN THE AIR STREAM WEST TO EAST.
THIS WIND FLOW IS IMPOSSIBLY POWERFUL AND MAGNIFICENT.
ALL LEAVES FLIRT WITH FRESHENING BREEZES,
AND THESE BROWN MAPLE LEAVES ARE A DRAMATIC CONTRAST
WITHIN THE WHITISH LADEN CLOUD IMMENSITY
SURROUNDING THE ENTIRE MOUNTAIN-SCAPE.
FROZEN ROSE LEAVES,
FOR MY SWEET RENEE
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
THE SPECTACLE OF
FROZEN ROSE LEAVES
MAKES MY SOUL RESONATE WITH WARMTH,
AND
MY HEART STRINGS,
CHORDAE TENDINEAE,
ARE PLUCKED BY SONOROUS
NOTES OF RHAPSODY.
FROZEN ROSE LEAVES,
STRIKINGLY LUMINESCENT,
WITH A BRILLIANT CLEAR COATING
OF AQUA
AND
FRAGRANT WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF
SESQUITERPENES.
MY HEART LEAPS IN MY THORACIC CAVITY,
WITH ANTICIPATION OF OUR NEXT EMBRACE,
MY SWEET GAIA.
AS WE RIDE
COMET LOVEJOY
THROUGHOUT
THE UNIVERSE,
YOU HOLD ME TIGHT.
AND
WE LAND ON
A
PLANET IN THE
ALPHA CENTAURI
STAR SYSTEM,
4.37 LIGHTYEARS
FROM OUR WORLD;
AND
YOU
VENUS
RIDE ME,
YOUR MULTICOLORED UNICORN,
ALONG THE MOUNTAIN RANGE,
AND
SUCCULENT VALLEYS
FILLED WITH TRILLIUM AND YELLOW ROSES,
AND
CATBIRDS
GEESE
DOVES
AND
WE FALL IN LOVE...
BIRDS TWEETING
IN THE WOODS.
MY HEART BEATING
FOR YOU.
SUNSHINE
FRESH AIR
YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR.
MY WORDS
YOUR MIND
OUR HEART'S
ENTWINED.
IN THE CLOUDS,
I SEE YOUR FACE;
IN THE CLOUDS,
I SEE YOUR SHAPE;
IN THE CLOUDS,
I SEE YOUR SMILE;
AND
THE SUN IS SETTING ON THE WESTERN HORIZON.
IN THE CLOUDS
YOU ARE THERE,
AS THE SUN IS THERE
ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
AND
YOU ARE THERE
IN MY HEART,
IN MY MIND,
AND
IN MY SOUL.
AND
I BELIEVE YOU
ARE THERE,
GAIA.
GAIA, IN BIRDSONGS
THERE ARE MESSAGES
IN THE MELODIES,
INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO HUMAN PERCEPTIONS,
AND UNDERSTANDING.
IN YOUR EYES, GAIA,
THERE ARE EMOTIONS
AND
HOPES
AND
DESIRES
ONLY COMPREHENSIBLE
TO YOUR ANTIGONE
SUN SHINE
MOON SHINE
STAR SHINE
YOUR EYES,
YOUR SMILE,
YOUR AURA
IN THIS PHYSICAL WORLD,
MY EYES
MY SMILE
MY AURA
IN THE METAPHYSICAL WORLD,
LET'S
JOIN TOGETHER
GROOVIN'
INTO
THE TWO WORLDS...
IN THE SOIL
AND
IN THE WATER,
THERE ARE LIFE-SUSTAINING
MOLECULES AND COMPOUNDS.
IN YOUR EYES
AND
IN YOUR SMILE
THERE ARE
BEAUTIFULLY EVOCATIVE TREASURES.
MARVELING AT THE
JUVENILE RUBY-THROAT,
GREEN-BACKED HUMMINGBIRD
SEARCHING
FOR HOSTA FLOWERS YET BLOOMED; GOBSMACKED, AM I.
MOMENTS IN THE BREEZE,
AND
YOU IN THE BREEZE,
AND
ME IN THE BREEZE...
FLEETING, CHRONOS TIME...
EVERMORE, KARIOS TIME....
IN THE FABRIC OF
ATOMIC ENERGY,
AND
IN THE CLAY,
YOU ARE RADIANT...
POLLEN OF RHODODENDRON,
NECTAR OF TULIP POPLAR,
YOUR LIFEFORCE WITHIN MY LIFEFORCE.
AND
MY LIFEFORCE WITHIN YOUR LIFEFORCE.
AND
PEBBLES CASCADING, TUMBLING ALONG THE STREAM BED,
WATCHED WITH EAGER ANTICIPATION
BY CRAWDADS AND WATER STRIDERS...
GAIA SUSTAINS,
AND
GAIA SMILES...
THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT CLOUDS,
THERE IS MISTY BLUE
AND
VIOLET TOO.
AND
THERE IS YOU;
STRENGTH,
AND
A MIST OF RAINBOW
DRIFTING THROUGH
THE VAPOR
OF SUNSHINE
AND
ENERGY...
DRAGONFLY
HOVERING
AND
DARTING
OVER THE STREAM SURFACE;
BLUES
AND
GREENS
AND
BLACKS,
WITH WING MOTION,
INCOMPREHENSIBLE,
SEARCHING FOR
WATER STRIDERS
AND
GNATS
AND
FLYING FREE,
WITH MAJESTIC ENERGY,
JUKING LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD,
FLITTING
FLIRTING
FREELY
FLOWING
WITH THE
AIR CURRENTS,
SEARCHING,
SCRUTINIZING
THE
WATER CURRENTS...
THE MISTS
IN THE
VISTA,
ARE MOVING
SOUTH TO NORTH
THIS MORNING,
AND
THE BIRDSONG IN THE TULIP POPLAR
FOREST IS ESTATCIALLY ALIVE
WITH EXUBERANCE,
FOR ANOTHER DAY OF PROMISE;
AND
CELESTIAL ENERGY FLOWS
INTO THIS FOREST,
IGNITING
ANIMAL MAGNETISM,
AND
METAPHYSICAL BLISS.
GAIA REJOICES,
AND
EBULLIENCE
IS
EFFUSIVELY
SHARED FROM ONE TO ANOTHER
ON TERRA,
OUR LOVING MOTHER PLANET,
WE ARE ONE
AND
WE ARE
ALIVE
BECAUSE OF THE
SUN...
SUNDAY MORNING,
FOGGY VISTA,
AND
BIRD SONG.
ROBINS FLITTING,
SEEKING WORMS IN THE MOIST SOIL,
AND
CROWS, WITH THEIR DISCORDANT YAMMERING.
FLAME AZALEA BLOSSOMS SWAYING
AND
CHESTNUT LEAVES PHOTOSYNTHETIC VIBRATION.
THE EARTH IS ALIVE, AGAIN,
WITH ACTIVITIES BEYOND COMPREHENSION,
AND
SOUNDS, AUDIBLE,
AND
INHERENTLY DIMINUTIVE.
BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER,
IS STRUTTING,
AND
THE HEN IS MOVING
SECRETLY AND WARILY NEARBY.
A RUFFED GROUSE DRUMS,
AND BENJAMIN CLOSES IN ON THE HEN,
WITH TAIL FEATHERS FULLY EXPANDED.
AVIAN ECSTASY,
AND
COOING BONDING WILL SOON TAKE PLACE,
ON OUR BELOVED EARTH,
BENEATH THE TULIP POPLARS.
GAIA REJOICES...
THIS MORNING,
I AM WATCHING RAIN FALL,
AND
GRASS GROW
AND
TREE LEAVES SWAYING,
AND
HOSTA LEAVES ENGORGING TO THE SIZE OF BABY ELEPHANT'S EARS,
AND
FLAME AZALEA FLOWERS FLUTTERING,
AND
THE FUCHSIA-COLORED RHODODENDRON FLOWER BOBBING TO-AND-FRO,
AND
LISTENING TO THUNDER THRUMMING,
AND
MARVELING AT THE LIGHTNING STREAKING
ACROSS THE AQUA SUPER-SATURATED HORIZON.
AND NOW,
THE MOUNTAIN FORMS BEGIN TO EMERGE THROUGH THE MISTS,
AND THEIR RICH GREEN FORMS OF RIDGELINES AND PEAKS,
ARE PEAKING THROUGH THE MISTY VAPORS,
SWIRLING AROUND THEM LIKE HONEYBEES SWARMING
AROUND A HIVE.
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG,
MELODIC ARIAS OF GAIA'S SUBLIME OPERA;
ROBIN'S SWEET SOUNDS OF AVIAN LOVE,
TOUCH THEIR BEAKS
WITH MAGIC
AND
MORNING DOVES JOIN IN WITH
SOFT MURMURING COOS.
RED-CRESTED WOODPECKER BURSTING
WITH JOYFULLY AUDIBLE EXCITEMENT,
IN THE DISTANCE,
BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER
AWAKENS THE HENS;
AND
CROWS CACKLING CACOPHONY,
IN A SYCOPHANTIC UNISON,
GAIA'S ORATORIO GUSTO...
AND
THE CRESCENDO BEGINS AS
THE RUFFED GROUSE
FLAPS HIS WINGS,
WITH SPEEDS SIMILAR TO HUMMINGBIRDS
DRUMMING ON THE TULIP POPLAR STUMP,
LIKE TYMPANI THRUMMING,
FELINE FEROCITY
CLAWS AT THE BASE OF A CHESTNUT TREE,
AND
BIRDS TAKE TO THE WING...
AND
THEN THE BLUEBIRD FAMILY ARRIVES
TO FILL IN WITH SWEET MELODIC ARIAS;
UNTIL THE JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK
ARRIVES WITH A SCREAMING
CREENING KEE-EEEEE-ARR.
AND
GAIA, HOLDING THE BATON,
CONDUCTS,
SMILES,
AND
SIGHS,
ANOTHER DAY IN HER GLORIOUS PARADISE...
THE RAINBOW IN THE VISTA,
REFLECTION,
REFRACTION,
AND
DISPERSION
OF SUNLIGHT IN WATER DROPLETS,
GENERATING
THE PHENOMENONAL
SPECTRAL ARC
OF
ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE;
WAVE ON,
WAVE ON.
THE MAJESTIC RAINBOW;
RED
ORANGE
YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE
INDIGO
AND
VIOLET.
THE RAPTUROUS RAINBOW;
THE GOLD AT THE END IS YOU.
AND
GIVING MY LIFE TO A RAINBOW LIKE YOU,
THE EUPHORIC RAINBOW;
YOUR SPIRIT,
COMMINGLED WITH
MY SPIRIT,
SUBLIME MOMENTS,
SHARING CHRONOS TIME;
SUBLIME EONS,
SHARING KAIROS TIME...
AS THE SKY ERUPTS WITH BURSTS OF THUNDER,
AND
THE HEAVILY-LADEN SUPERSATURATED CLOUDS
DRENCH THE LANDSCAPE,
I WATCH AMUSED AND CURIOUS FROM MY WINDOW FACING WEST;
THE DISTANT HORIZON IS BRIGHT WITH SUN-LADEN CUMULUS FORMATION
QUICKLY EVOLVING INTO CUMULONIMBUS DARK GRAY SWOLLEN WITH AQUA,
AND
EMPTYING UPON THE EARTH WITH POWER BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION.
IF OUR METAPHYSICAL LIVES
COULD BE SO ENRICHED
WITH THE FULLNESS OF THIS TORRENTIAL SHOWER,
OUR LIVES WOULD BE ATTUNED
TO GAIA'S POWER.
A STUNNING JUXTAPOSITION
OF
BRADFORD PEAR
AND
WEEPING CHERRY
THIS EBULLIENTLY ON-FIRE
FLAME AZALEA
IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR
ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE..
THE SOUND OF RAIN,
THE SOUND OF MOTHER NATURE'S MUSIC;
THE SOUND OF RAINDROPS
LANDING ON TREE LEAVES AND BRANCHES;
THE SOUND OF GAIA,
HER MOISTURE FOR OUR EARTH.
THE SOUNDS OF OUR AVIAN COHABITANTS,
LUXURIATING IN GAIA'S BIRDSHOWER.
THE SOUND OF RAIN,
THE SOUND OF BLUEGRASS GROWING,
THE SOUND OF HOSTA LEAVES ENGORGING,
THE SOUND OF AZALEA FLOWERS BLOOMING,
THE SOUND OF CREEKS CASCADING,
THE SOUND OF MISTS MOVING,
THE SOUND OF RAIN.
GAIA'S LIFE-SUSTAINING GIFT,
RAIN AND RAIN AND RAIN...
AND
THEN SUN AND SUN AND SUN...
FLORA PHOTOSYNTHESIS SPRINGS,
XYLEM FLOODED WITH AQUA,
AND
METABOLIC PATHWAYS
SYNTHESIZE
INTERMEDIATE METABOLITES
AND COMPOUNDS,
FORMING GLUCOSE
AND
SUCROSE,
FLOWING INTO THE PHOLEM,
TRANSLOCATED TO THE SUBTERRANEAN
STORAGE STRUCTURES:
STEM BASES, RHIZOMES, AND ROOTS;
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PROVIDES
LIFE SUSTAINING FUEL,
FIBER,
BIOMASS FOR SYNTHETIC FUELS,
AND
ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURAL MATERIALS.
GAIA
ORCHESTRATES
THE DANCE
OF RAIN AND SUN AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS...
CHLOROPHYLL-PIGMENTED
CHLOROPLASTS,
STOMATA FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ABSORPTION,
AND
ROOT SYSTEMS FOR AQUA AND NUTRIENT ABSORPTION.
GAIA SUSTAINS LIFE.
THE POPLAR TREE LEAVES, EMERGING FROM A LONG WINTER'S REST, ARE SPRINGING AND THEIR BUDDING PRESENCE WILL SOON ERUPT INTO MOST ELEGANT
AND
FRAGRANT INFLORESCENCES.
WHEN THE POPLAR FLOWER OPENS,
ORANGE, YELLOW, AND GREEN SPRING FORTH
REJOICING...
AND
MY HEART LEAPS AND THERE IS NOTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD; EVOCATIVE BEAUTY, ANCESTRAL BEAUTY, ELEGANCE TIMES THE nTH DEGREE;
AND
I ENVISION THE PRIMORDIAL MOTHER EARTH,
GAIA,THE GODDESS, DIG ?
A GOLDEN-WINGED EAGLE IS PASSING HER WAY...
APRIL 24, 2018
WILDFLOWER SEEKER,
IN THIS DECIDUOUS FOREST
OF RED OAK LEAF HUMUS,
SEARCHING FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
AND
EVOCATIVE
PINK LADY'S SLIPPER;
AND
HERE IT IS RISING FROM THE SOIL;
SMALL PEBBLES AND LAST YEAR'S DETRITUS AND STEMS
ADJACENT TO IT'S HYPOCOTYL EMERGING
AND THE
EPICOTYL SEEKING SOL'S BLUES AND REDS
AND
THE RADICAL SEEKING MOISTURE
AND THE BEING, THAT IS TURGOR-PRESSURED
XYLEM AND PHOLEM
VASCULATURE
OF THE
HEART AND SOUL
OF THE LADY SLIPPER,
IS
SUPPING AND SLURPING
PHOSPHOROUS IONS
AND POTASSIUM IONS,
AND NITROGEN COMPOUNDS,
AND MAGNESIUM IONS
AND CALCIUM IONS
AND
BORON,
SILICON,
AND
ARGON;
CHRONOS PASSES
AND
CHIROS SWINGS THROUGH
ON A CHARIOT OF
COMET TRAIL
FIRE AND ICE
WITH METAPHYSICAL MAGNETISM,
AND MAJESTIC WAVELENGTHS
OF THE
ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
WAVE ON
WAVE ON,
AND
GAIA GRACIOUSLY
PROVIDES
ABUNDANT RAINFALL,
CASCADING
A SLURRY OF NUTRIENTS
AND MICROPEBBLES,
AND LOAMY SOIL CRUMBS
SURROUNDING
THE EMERGING LIFEFORCE,
THE WIDFLOWER SEEKER'S
GLORIOUS PINK LADY SLIPPER.
THE SOUND OF RAIN,
THE SOUND OF MOTHER NATURE'S MUSIC;
THE SOUND OF RAINDROPS
LANDING ON TREE LEAVES AND BRANCHES;
THE SOUND OF GAIA,
HER MOISTURE FOR OUR EARTH.
THE SOUNDS OF OUR AVIAN COHABITANTS,
LUXURIATING IN GAIA'S BIRDSHOWER.
THE SOUND OF RAIN,
THE SOUND OF BLUEGRASS GROWING,
THE SOUND OF HOSTA LEAVES ENGORGING,
THE SOUND OF AZALEA FLOWERS BLOOMING,
THE SOUND OF CREEKS CASCADING,
THE SOUND OF MISTS MOVING,
THE SOUND OF RAIN.
GAIA'S LIFE-SUSTAINING GIFT,
RAIN AND RAIN AND RAIN...
YOUR SOUL IN THE WIND
MARCH 2, 2018
IF YOU COULD SEE WHAT I'M WATCHING
YOUR MIND WOULD BE BLOWN
BY THE WIND;
THE FULL MOON SETTING IN THE WEST
AND
THE MASSIVE WHITE CLOUD FORMS
ZOOMING ACROSS THE HORIZON
AND
YOUR FACE IN THE MOON
AND
YOUR SOUL IN THE WIND
AND
YOUR BEAUTY IN THE CLOUDS
AND
EACH CLOUD HAS A DIFFERENT SHAPE
AND
EACH SHAPE IS YOUR ETHEREAL PRESENCE
IN MY LIFE.
AND
YOUR LIFE IN MY LIFE
IS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT
I HAVE EVER RECEIVED.
AND
BRINGING YOU JOY AND HAPPINESS,,
BRINGS ME JOY AND HAPPINESS.
MAY IT BE SO,
THIS DAY.
SPRING IS COMING
On February 17, 2018
The bluebird family
gathered and looked
warily
at the
robin strutting in the yard.
HAPPY SPRING
ON APRIL 21, 2018
A RUFFED GROUSE
STRUTTED ACROSS MY PARKING LOT
AND
PERCHED ATOP RED OAK STUMP,
THEN
VIGOROUS WING FLAPPING BEGAN,
AND
'DRUMMING' WAS HEARD
BY
THE RUFFED GROUSE HEN;
AND
AS SHE APPROACHED,
HIS CEREMONIOUS TAIL FEATHERS
SPREAD WIDE
RELEASING
ENDOGENOUS PHEROMONES
SIGNALING TO HER,
THAT CUDDLING WOULD SOON BEGIN...
Robert's Mostyum Cooking Show
August 7, 2007
Pssghetti's Restaurant
Blowing Rock, NC
Executive Chef Ben Allison
AUGUST 15, 2006
MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY
BOONE, NC
EXECUTIVE CHEF MELANIE PATTERSON
The wind swirls
the brook sings
and the streams
burst their banks.
Her Name
is as the sea foam flows
and
the rainbow's pot of gold.
As the tide
ebbs and flows,
the shore's sand
forms a sound
singing
GAIA
In GAIA'S EYES
Luminosity Resides,
Ablaze, Aglow,
Gleam & Luster.
In GAIA'S SMILE
Enchantment Resides,
Appealing Magnetism; GAIA'S LIPS
Euphoric Bliss.
Dappled Mountain Majesty
January 25, 2018
Sunbeams radiate across the mountainscape
dappled scenes of
windblown fields and forests,
illuminated habitats amidst the overarching oktas.
Starshine and Lunashine at the zenith,
gravitational and polar influx bursts,
trillying and nillywilling
vibrational electron bursts,
positrons, neutrinos,
gamma rays, and photons,
Clearing Skies and
freshening breezes scour,
the enervating cold away...
Have a Sunny Day...
WINTER GOBSMACK LAND
January 22, 2018
Hazel-brown chestnut leaves
fluttering in the breeze,
the deciduous forest is nut-brown
and
a crimson-gray pall
lies over the land,
during this, the ides of winter.
JOYOUSLY, in the midst of this milleu,
verdant conifers
and
laurel and ivy slicks persist.
Gobsmacked moments of awe,
as hope SPRINGS
from this paradigm shift.
GAIA's EYES are CERULEAN WATERFALLS
January 21, 2018
Cerulean is the hue I share with YOU.
Azure sky
in HER EYE
an ethereal waterfall crescendo.
Lapis lazuli, the GAIA Crystal,
sparking in YOU
Spirit & Vision,
Wisdom & Truth.
Alluring Tulip Poplar
Rime Ice on Red Oak Branches
GAIA'S SMILE
January 13, 2018
In the snow
there are ice crystals
And
as the sun shines on them
their reflection is as
GAIA's SMILE.
In the snow
there are frozen particles
composed of water molecules
and
they are composed of hydrogen atoms and
oxygen atoms
and
they are composed of quarks
and
all these components are complete in
GAIA'S SMILE
Venus Rising, GAIA Sighing
January 9, 2018
The sky is alive with emerging starlight
and
the horizon is expansive.
Orion over the Earth
all night,
GAIA encircles the globe
and
richness of the soil is richness of HER soul.
Early in the morning,
Venus rising
in the Eastern sky
and
GAIA sighs...
This Elegant Snow & White Pine Needle Wreath
is for YOU.
GAIA SPEAKS
Snow flying sideways from the Northwest Polar vortex force; HER voice is as the thundering wind; wolves & coyotes howling, screech owls trilling, gravitational forces jag ripples in the cosmic fabric. As the dawn biosphere awakens, GAIA speaks, all life rejoices, tectonic plates shift, volcanoes erupt in the Western Pacific and the
wind screams GAIA.
A Stunningly Exquisite Flame Azalea
For All THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Mountain Top Woodland
on a Fall Afternoon
October 25, 2017
Ebullient moments
and effervescent laughter,
song birds eloquently proclaim
diverse and elaborate pleasurable harmonies.
The sounds of leaves and acorns falling,
chipmunks and squirrels scampering,
a red-crested woodpecker's call
and a ruffed grouse's drumming.
Your elegant face, highlighted by sun rays streaming through the canopy,
is to me,
the most alluring treasure within
this mountain top wooded sea.
Rime Ice-Covered Blue Ridge Parkway Scene at Heffner Gap (Milepost 326)
March 4, 2014
THIS IS ESPECIALLY FOR
LEAHANNE & JOE
GROK & ROLL
MUSIC
MUSIC
LoveTones is a concept album in progress.
The emotional feelings a person has for another, during the beginning of a romantic relationship, is metaphysically captured in each track of LoveTones.
The emotional feelings a person has for another, during the beginning of a romantic relationship, is metaphysically captured in each track of LoveTones.
LoveTones: Birds on the Wing
Recorded November 22, 2018
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Romantic Crescendo
Recorded July 30, 2017
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Tune Me in Groovy Goddess
Recorded May 7, 2017
Toast & Jam Studio
Recorded May 7, 2017
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: You are a Rainbow
Recorded April 29, 2017
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Holding Hands
Recorded December 2, 2016
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Her Name is Swirling
With The Gusty South Wind
Recorded February 4, 2018
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Beach Thong Baby
Recorded November 18, 2016
Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Peach Jam Recorded August 27, 2016
Toast & Jam Studio
Daylight is dawning
and
snow is flying sideways
and
the south wind is swirling
snow and gusty winds
again.
But my home is warm
and I'm sitting by my fire,
daydreaming of a LADY;
and
HER name is swirling
with the gusty south wind
and HER name is flying
sideways with the snow
and
HER name is
GAIA
I HAVE DISCOVERED A
MOST ELEGANT TREASURE,
THERE IS A LADY ON THIS EARTH WITHOUT MEASURE.
AND
THERE IS A VAST AND
EXPANDING UNIVERSE,
FILLED WITH IMMEASURABLE
CELESTIAL WONDERS;
NONE SO DAZZLING
OR RADIANT
AS THE LUMINESCENT & ALLURING
GAIA
The Tortoise and the Pear
Sweet-N-Tart Salsa
Tomatillo, Jalapeno Pepper, Sweet Onion, and Sweet Mini-Peppers ready for roasting in a 375 degree F oven for 25 minutes.
Place roasted ingredients into a food processor and make the salsa.
Tomatillo, Jalapeno Pepper, Sweet Onion, and Sweet Mini-Peppers ready for roasting in a 375 degree F oven for 25 minutes.
Place roasted ingredients into a food processor and make the salsa.
Robert's Mostyum Cooking Show
June 21, 2005
Casa Rustica
Boone, NC
Executive Chef John Goodson
June 21, 2005
Casa Rustica
Boone, NC
Executive Chef John Goodson
Rock on a Roll Recipes
Rock on a Roll is a radio cooking program which was broadcast on WASU at Appalachian State University