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June 11, 2022 by drkottaway

succulent

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Posted in art, garden, hike, home, nature, photography
Tagged #FOTD, Flower of the Day, FOTD, hike, local, outdoors, photography, succulent, walk
June 10, 2022 by drkottaway

pie

please don’t decry pie

why

please eat my pie

why

my pie truly delights

my

pie delights days and nights

sigh

___________________

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: decry.

Posted in hike, hope, outdoors, poems, poetry, wordplay, words
Tagged #RDP, Beloved, hike, home, love, Olympic Peninsula, outdoors, photography, Ragtag Daily Prompt, RDP, sky
2 Comments
June 9, 2022 by drkottaway

pollinator

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Posted in forest, hike, home, hope, photography
Tagged #FOTD, dandelion, FOTD, hike, mountains, Olympic Peninsula, outdoors, photography
1 Comment
June 8, 2022 by drkottaway

yellow iris

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

And this is gorgeous:

Posted in Beloved, hike, home, hope, love, photography, sing, singing, single payer, Stages of grief, Stages of Peace
Tagged #FOTD, Beloved, day, Flower of the Day, FOTD, hike, home, hope, iris, love, photography, Stages of grief, Stages of Peace
June 6, 2022 by drkottaway

like stars

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Posted in garden, hike, home, outdoors, photography, rural doctor
Tagged #FOTD, Beloved, flower, Flower of the Day, FOTD, hike, love, outdoors, photography, star
2 Comments
June 4, 2022 by drkottaway

wild rose

Taken in 2017.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Posted in 7 sins and friends, friendship, hike, home, outdoors, photography
Tagged #FOTD, Flower of the Day, FOTD, friendship, hike, home, outdoors, photography, rose, wild, wild rose
June 2, 2022 by drkottaway

loon in spring

Like the feathers have been inked.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: ink.

Posted in outdoors, photography, Salish Sea, water, wordplay, words
Tagged #loon, #RDP, hike, ink, loon, North Beach, outdoors, photography, Ragtag Daily Prompt, RDP, Salish Sea, water
May 31, 2022 by drkottaway

worth one in the bush?

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: envy.

During hard times, I find silly music and poems deeply comforting. So: Uncle Bonsai, the Seattle trio, on the subject of envy!

And while they are at it, they have advice, too:

Uncle Bonsai: Don’t put it in your mouth

Posted in emotion, forest, hike, memory, photography, rural doctor, wordplay, words
Tagged #RDP, forest, hike, outdoors, photography, Ragtag Daily Prompt, RDP
3 Comments
May 30, 2022 by drkottaway

Spit view

This is the “primitive” path back from Dungeness Spit. Beautiful.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Hiking Dungeness Spitβ€”A sandy stretch that keeps on growing
Posted in beach, forest, friendship, hike, photography, Salish Sea, water
Tagged #FOTD, beach, Flower of the Day, FOTD, friendship, hike, photography, Salish Sea
May 26, 2022 by drkottaway

rocks

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: myriad.

Posted in friendship, photography, Salish Sea, sky, water
Tagged #RDP, friendship, hike, myriad, North Beach, Olympic Peninsula, outdoors, photography, Ragtag Daily Prompt, RDP, rock, Salish Sea, sky, water
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