For the Weekly Photo Prompt: Tour guide.
dark and light

For the Weekly Photo Prompt: Tour guide.
This is for mindlovemisery’s photochallenge #194. It stuck in my head. So here is the photographic reply.
And I still won’t confess.
For the weekly Photo Challenge: pedestrian.
The deer teach their young to cross in our small town. I visited the DC/Baltimore corridor earlier this year and saw rows of vultures waiting on the light poles at overpasses: because these are 14 or 16 lane highways. How can a deer cross? And I saw vultures around a dead deer along 495.
Here is the photo just before, mom leading.
And mom considering my appearance, also a pedestrian.
And the youngster hesitating and then crossing.
Twilight used to be the risk time for deer when I was a child in upstate New York. In town here, the deer congregate and cross at any time of day. Where there is one there may be three or more.
For the weekly Photo Challenge: windows.
Home again and early morning, down at the Maritime Center. I love the polarized light and the color of the building and the chairs.
And boats! Both inside the building and the reflections.
For the Photo Challenge: layered. And today’s poem.
release
I can’t do it, Beloved
or no
I don’t know how, Beloved
release old grief, I am told
I am to have the intention daily
to release old grief
it sits in my throat
aching lump, knot, old
I don’t know how old
is it from before birth
I haven’t looked up whether antibodies
to tuberculosis
cross the placenta
attacking
Kell kills
that is one of the antibodies
that can kill a fetus
I have the grief
a tiger by the tail
at first I was afraid
that releasing it would lose
some core part of myself
that the me I have built
is the nacre, a pearl
wrapped around a core of grief
but Beloved
I try to listen
I try so hard to listen
to have faith
why pay for help
without attempting to follow
the ideas
unless they are so clearly wrong
conversation
with myself
the past the woman the girl the child the fetus
let the grief go
gently
Beloved
maybe I am not gentle enough
full speed ahead
maybe I need to cradle the grief more
rock it, comfort it, thank it
grief, you protected me so much
from the patterns in the family
Beloved
maybe I need to thank the grief
before I let it go
Also for the weekly Photo Challenge: elemental.
Early morning last week, Wisconsin, and the dew is everywhere and green and very wet.
I am submitting this for the weekly Photo Prompt: elemental.
I took this in Wisconsin last week in the early morning. I like the light on the grass and on the horse and the contrast with shadows….what is more elemental than light and dark?
This is for the Daily Post Photo Challenge: Rare.
I had my morning coffee on Sunday in the tree house, very early. Coffee is not so rare but having it in a tree house is not common for me!
We have three of the four roof panels in place, but the fourth will have tricky cutouts to accommodate the tree. I love the clear roof panels that let in the light. I can watch the leaves and the tree move through it. We have a window that fits in the open space, but took it down to paint the outside…..so far I have not had time….
For the Daily Post: Orange Photo Challenge.
I was driving to a coffee shop and stopped at the top of the hill for this sunrise. There were half a dozen of us out taking photos of the beautiful Salish Sea.
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