Pandamnic

Pandammit
Navalny was spiked with the Russian vaccine
Wildfires in the west
Bubonic plague highlights
Asteroid coming to an election near you
Cancel Trump culture for eternity
Other aborhents, to name;
Shields without masks
Noseless masks
Maskless nose
Noses are horror show!
Other  reminders;
Washing AND sanitizing
Masks AND two arm-lengths distancing
What size arms?
Agile elbows and touching mistakes
Self hugs
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter
Get together?

Nonchalance

 

On/Off Ramp

Beggar-ticks and beggars live there
Red-winged black bird,
tall wavy grasses,
feathery eastern red cedars,
untouched trees, jungles, ruins, all waiting
It's the home of fantasy farms, bandits, runaways, hideaway, getaway
Drifter residue in worn slatted Ozark signs
A telescopic, telepathic view transports you to the oasis in a derelict land,
as you're waiting
Off ramp gonna save your life, On ramp gonna set you free

Be a rose and cover your nose

 

I did not volunteer for this

 The people, the people

Desensitization process-

Hail Mary

 

What's that like, bird?

 To have a live cicada vibrating in your beak?

You flew from branch to branch,

looking for a good spot for lunch.

All the while, your little feast rattled.

Pink August

In my world, the growing season ends and begins with pink.
From pink April to pink August

My daughter, the mushroom scientist, is using art to get her thinking right for her experiment to make poisonous mushrooms nonpoisonous.

We have had quite a harvest of fungi the last few weeks of July:
Gilled and pored
Ruby Boletes
Smooth Chanterelles
Meadow Mushroom, white with pink gills-adorable
Hygrophorus Milkcap
Russula cerolens
Turkey tail
Pale brittlestem
King Alfred's cakes
Scaly ink cap, dissolves into black liquid
Thin-walled maze polypore
A mushroom growing in a sign stake with the cutest baby mushroom in tow
A Smurf village made of ruby boletes under the Echinacea
Jellied false coral fungi
Tapioca slime mold

We made spore prints for the first time too!  Looking for that purple print!

A sampling: