•stone/wall•
Broken stone walls like this could be just about anywhere…
…and these are some I found in Texas the other day.
Fort McKavett State Historical Park
Fort McKavett, Texas
photographed 4.12.2026
#ruins #ftmckavett
I suspect their night
out was going very well
(some stolen kisses).
Piazza Caracciolo
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 1.28.2025
#haiku #poetry #sicily
•(not the) moon•
Here’s a view from that giant hotel room I mentioned yesterday. I like it that this looks like it might be the moon, but isn’t.
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 4.10.2026
#hotelroomview
Sam’s hat and Sam’s face
could not possibly look more
authentic than this.
Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.22.2025
#haiku #poetry
•low light•
Hotel rooms always seem full of photos waiting to happen.
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 4.10.2026
#travel #lamp
My brain was hopped up
on photography-memories-
quests-companionship.
Shafter, Texas
photographed 2.19.2025
#haiku #poetry
Someone converted
a bus to a home; it was
not a big success.
Pyote, Texas
photographed 2.18.2025
#haiku #poetry
•the night reflection•
I think I’m figuring out the technique of using puddles and reflections…
Mason, Texas
photographed 4.11.2026
#reflection #puddle #night
Chuckwagon breakfast
held on cold morning in the
place called Poet’s Grove.
Lone Star Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Alpine, Texas
photographed 2.22.2025
#haiku #poetry #cowboypoetry
A Sicilian
kitty taking a bath as
a gentle rain fell.
Siracusa, Sicily
photographed 2.25.2025
#haiku #poetry #sicily
Offerings show up
in various ways – like this
light on the table.
near Toyahvale, Texas
photographed 2.18.2025
#haiku #poetry
It’s up us to reflect on how it’s up to each of us to find our sense of balance and harmony and to carry that with us when we go back home from the place where we found it.
South Solon Meetinghouse
Solon, Maine
photographed 3.19.2026
Head-to-toe-pink girl needed a bit of a snack to get through the day. Catania, Sicily photographed 2.4.2025 #haiku #poetry #catania
One block from where I stayed this weekend…
Mason, Texas
photographed 4.12.2026
#smalltown #night
The family made
lunch for us, then wove bracelets,
sang songs in the yard.
Pallazzolo Acreide, Sicily
photographed 1.27.2025
Sometimes a road trip is The Thing You Need.
And sometimes a stop at the International Waterlily Collection is a happy part of that road trip.
San Angelo, Texas
photographed 4.10.2026
@iwgs_org #sanangelo #blackandwhite #flowers
“delicous”
No, indeed there IS nothing like eating a delicious ear of corn. And maybe I’m just letting my inner copy editor have too much control, but I can’t help but point out that the sign maker did not spell delicious the conventional way.
Skowhegan, Maine
photographed 3.21.2026
Brown winter fields, snow
was a nice contrast to the cars
at Cadillac Ranch.
Bushland, Texas
photographed 1.18.2025
#haiku #poetry #cadillacranch
•addendum•
Here’s what happens when you get someone with a piece of cardboard, a marker, and some big opinions.
Skowhegan, Maine
3.21.2026
Surprisingly, this
is not how we purchase our
fish in West Texas.
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 1.28.2025
#haiku #poetry #sicily
The clouds that brought snow the night before were breaking up…and I enjoyed the contrast between the softness of those clouds and the hard edges of a building at the orchard.
North Star Orchards
Madison, Maine
photographed 3.21.2026
What fresh hell is this?
(my thought upon seeing this
doll and wedding veil)
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 1.18.2025
#haiku #poetry
over at Jen’s place
This? Oh just a totally picturesque New England scene I saw last month.
It had snowed the night before and by early afternoon the sky was clearing, the sun was out, and the snow was melting. It was lovely and I felt right at home.
North Star Orchards
Madison, Maine
3.21.2026
These orbs seem to think
the world is either black or
white: no other choice.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
photographed 11.24.2021
#haiku #poetry
You might be one of the people who think an Irish fiddle group is out of place at a German restaurant. I would probably be with you on that, except that I saw/heard it for myself. And in context, it made perfect sense.
The Biergarten
Skowhegan, Maine
photographed 3.19.2026
water drops fly high
Piazza Archimede
in Siracusa
Siracusa, Sicily
photographed 2.5.2025
#travel #siracusa #sicily
It was snowing when we got back from dinner. My companions, all of whom live in New England, just went to their rooms. They’d seen snow and this was just one more normal night for them.
I stayed outside and watched the snow, took some pictures, and got really cold.
Skowhegan, Maine
3.20.2026
When I imagine
fresh bread, it always looks like
this, bathed in gold light.
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 1.27.2025
#haiku #poetry #sicily
I’m sure it’s lovely in the summer with the lights on and people and ice cream and sunburns.
But it is hard to improve on a foggy day with no one else around and a convenient opening in a fence that allows a photographer to step inside and enjoy the moment.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
3.16.2026
More than anything else
this looked combustible: I
did not stay there long.
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.12.2023
#haiku #poetry #neworleans