I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out…
~Glen Hansard
#Photography #BloomStrolling #ImageAndVerse #Flower #PhotographersOfBluesky #Nature #Art

Mickey kneeling on the floor with their face turned upwards. Geometric patterns of light are cast on the wall behind them and there is a strong silhouette of their face reaching up the wall

“Hold on. When there is nothing in you except the will which says, ‘hold on’”
Rudyard Kipling

#ArtofSelfPortraiture #imageandverse

digital footprints
photos posted, poems penned
I hide in plain sight…
the me I want to be, and
the me I cannot defend

#vss365 #pen
#poetry #haiku #tanka
#photography
#eastcoastkin
#scape
#lake #moon
#ImageAndVerse
#art #writingcommunity

photos: foggy lake scene, and a hide and seek moon scape

“Underneath the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.”

- Christina Georgina Rossetti.
#gardenfeed🌱
#ImageAndVerse

The Prague clock tower. A close picture of the two clock faces. The face is very colorful blue and red pattern. There is also a bit of astrological clockwork showing zodiac symbols. Photo by Robert Emond.

#DailyHaikuPrompt | #waning

waning evil lashes out
as the pendulum swings back --
love reigns triumphant

#Haiku #Senryu #Haiga #Poetry
#Resilience #Hope #Peace
#spirituality #awakening
#skypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrysky
#ImageAndVerse
#PictureAndAPoem #Photography
#WestCoastKin #ECK

contact image of film negative. Human leans on road sign at crossroads of historic route 666.

Stand me at the edge
of the "Devil's Highway"

Dream me in the midst
of rock and roll fantasy

Keep me on the path
through time and space gone by

#HumansOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #Photography #ImageAndVerse #OriginalContent #SelfPortrait #ElPaso

From the vault (before the UV light set-up) - Dozens of seedlings in red and blue Solo party cups on tables by bright windows, arranged in trays, with a green garden visible outside.

this woman has hubris
lots!
MY garden
MY seedlings
Nature humors me

#vss365 #Man #Woman #FreeVerse #Poetry #JustWrite #Gardening #GardeningLife #Nature #ImageAndVerse

The Murmur of a Bee
A Witchcraft
yieldeth me
If any ask me why
'Twere easier to die
~Emily Dickinson
#Photography #BloomScrolling #Bee #MustLoveBees #Bloom #Succulent #Nature #Art #PhotographersOfBluesky #ImageAndVerse #Photographer #Foto

"But now,
I think I'm able
To carry on
It's been a long
A long time coming,
but I know
A change gon' come
Oh yes, it will"
#samcooke
#WackyWednesdayArt
#ImageAndVerse
#somaticartist
#badgirlmysticart
#neurodivergentartist
#mixedmediumart
#originalart
#artsky
#artistsofbluesky

A single capture of pink cherry blossom.

If anyone is magically
going to appear and suddenly
make your life better
just know that person is
always going to be You
-Brianna Pastor

Have a wonderful day light weavers, be well.

#bloomscrolling #photography #bluesky #imageandverse #sakura #nature #naturephotography

A sari-clad street vendor walks house-to-house through the bylanes of Ramana Nagar, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, balancing on her head a large stainless steel bowl filled with fresh leafy greens and other garden vegetables such as 'keerai' for sale. On 3 August 1929 at Ommen, Holland, Jiddu Krishnamurti dissolved the Order of the Star in the East, a global organisation of 75,000 members founded to support him as the 'World Teacher', marking his break from the Theosophical Society. He rejected the role of messiah and returned all associated money and property, including a castle in the Netherlands, declaring: "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path." https://youtu.be/E6DZUsIBt4A https://youtu.be/oYLei31eEB0

I maintain that Truth is
a pathless land,
and you cannot approach it
by any path whatsoever,
by any religion, by any sect.

J. Krishnamurti, 20th century

#Photography #India #StreetPhotography #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #HumansOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

A macrophoto of a red rose in bloom. The image is accompanied by lyrics from the song The Rose which was also well known in the movie in which Bette Midler starred in 1976. 📸 Vox / March, 2026

#RoseWednesday

I say love, it is a flower, and you it's only seed...

#WestCoastKin
#Photography
#Nature #Lyrics
#Macrophotography
#Roses #Flowers
#Bloomscroll
#ColorADay
#RedWed
#ImageAndVerse #ECK #Music #Filmsky
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMForMovies
The Rose
Musical/Drama 1979
Starring Bette Midler

Un bourdon qui se délecte sur une fleur jaune entourée par des jolies feuilles vertes pour vous souhaiter un bon Jeudi 📷🫶

Every day, as soon as spring arrives
From early morning at the crack of dawn
Until the end of the evening, he flits about
The bumblebee travels from flower to flower
He has become the beloved, the dashing one.

youtu.be/5LGYGxtozgg

#YellowThu #ImageAndVerse
#insectthursday #naturesong #words

My, what pretty flowers...aaaaAAHhHhRrhrhhggg....is what a bee's last thoughts would be visiting the wife's Cleveland Sage right now. That crab spider I nailed a couple of weeks ago, look it up, is larger now, and hunting the same sweet smelling flowers, just catching some rays...and anything else!

Patience is not sitting and waiting,
it is foreseeing.
It is looking at the thorn
and seeing the rose,
looking at the night
and seeing the day.
~Rumi

🌿

#ECK
#Macro
#Photography
#MacroPhotography
#ImageAndVerse
#InsectThursday
#Invertebrates
#Arachnids
#Spiders
#BugSky

the keys to life
bend before us
the art we make
part of the chorus
man-made creations
forged by fire
even the blues
can lift us higher

#vss365 #man
#poetry
#photography
#pano #piano
#eastcoastkin
#ImageAndVerse
#music #art
#writingcommunity

Photo: A pano shot of a piano keyboard

“Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show”

- W. H. Auden.
#flowerfeed🌱
#ImageAndVerse

through a window view of fog and clouds against a ridgeline

How clear
are the windows
of your mind's eye?

Do you see
the frame
of prior expectations?

#WindowsOnWednesday
#EastCoastKin #Photography #ImageAndVerse #OriginalContent

From the vault - close-up photo of a pale green sugar snap pea flower and a new sugar snap pea. The green petals and curved stem are against a dark blurred background.

crisp vegetables
picked fresh from the garden
we forgot this taste

#dailyhaikuprompt #Crisp #Haiku #Poetry #JustWrite #Photography #MacroPhotography #SugarSnapPeas #Garden #Gardening #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin

From the vault - Photo of the full moon softly out of focus behind a silhouetted tree. Branches are cutting across the glowing moon with a dark night sky for background.

failing to look up
we miss a world of wonder
the sky waits anyway

#haikufeels #Fail #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #Photography #Nature #Nightsky #Moon #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin

Fenced garden with raised beds under a colorful sunrise sky with pink and orange clouds.

outraged at the dark
still i turn toward the sunrise
i choose it again

#Emoetry #Outraged #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Dawn #Sunrise #Hope #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin

Close-up of red tulips with a black and yellow center, and green leaves. Some greenery and grey mulch are also visible. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. March 2026. An elementary school garden.

"April, come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain
May, she will stay
Resting in my arms again" - Paul Simon.

🌅Good morning!
Wishing you a lovely Wednesday and a great April!

#ColorADay #RedWed
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

#ImageAndVerse #ECK

Close-up macro photograph of multiple delicate translucent petals of Honesty flowers (Lunaria annua), set against a dark, moody background. The petals form soft, ethereal clusters that overlap, resembling ghostly wings. Small, sharp, vibrant crimson nectaires—looking like tiny hearts—are precisely placed at the center of the flowers. Soft, indistinct bokeh lights of pink and pale red add to the mysterious, melancholic atmosphere in the blurred background

Silken wings that offer no refuge,
only a place to hold these few scarlet anchors,
each one an unyielding memory that keeps my heart grounded in the past.

#ColorADay #RedWed #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Photography #Nature #Macro #ImageAndVerse

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.

Edna St Vincent Millay
#imageandverse

Mother of Muses, sing for my heart
Sing of a love too soon to depart
Sing of the heroes who stood alone
Whose names are engraved on tablets of stone
Who struggled with pain so the world could go free
Mother of Muses, sing for me
~Bob Dylan
#BloomScrolling #PhotographersOfBluesky #ImageAndVerse #war

"You know
you're a cute
little heart-breaker
Foxy"
#jimihendrix
#AnimalArtTuesday
#fox guides us
w/creative
problem solving
and trusting
inner wisdom
to adapt to change
#ImageAndVerse
#somaticart
#badgirlmysticart
#neurodivergentartist
#mixedmediumart
#originalart
#artsky
#artistsofbluesky

A capture of the moon rising in early evening. The sky pale blue, low cloud catching the hints of pink. Hawthorn blossom in the foreground.

How sweet the moonlight
sleeps upon this bank.
Here will we sit and
let the sounds of music
creep in our ears:
soft stillness and the night
become the touches of sweet harmony.
-William Shakespeare

Have a lovely day gentle souls.

#photography #nature #moonrise #imageandverse #bluesky

My eye perceives a yin yang of light and shadow dividing the frame with four Mule Deer in black and white foraging a shady slope beneath sunlit Ponderosa Pines.

Every moment
of light and dark
is a miracle.
~Walt Whitman

☯️

#WildlifeWednesday
#ImageAndVerse
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Monochrome
#Mammals
#ClassicMono
#Treescape
#Scape

Two men transport a vintage-style red bicycle on a motorcycle to a roadside bicycle mechanic for repair, puncture fixing or maintenance. Such bicycles vary in price from roughly ₹5,000 (€46) to over ₹13,000 (€120). They are on a Suzuki Avenis 125 scooter powered by a 124cc, single-cylinder, air-cooled, fuel-injected engine and featuring a Suzuki Eco Performance (SEP) engine designed for fuel efficiency and performance. Key specifications include a maximum power output of 8.7 PS and 10 Nm torque. The Indian price starts from Rs 83,793. (€775) The background shows a street-side food stall ("ரோட்டு கடை உண" - Street Food Shop) on Chengam Road, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

You won't find another
fool like me, no, you won't
Sometimes I can't understand
What makes me the fool I am
You won't find another
fool like me

The New Seekers, 20th century

#Photography #Poetry #Music #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #India #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

A bicolor tulip in yellow and orange, and greenery. A few water droplets are also present. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. March 2026. Gamble Garden.

🔥💧 "I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end..."
- James Taylor.

#TulipTuesday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#ImageAndVerse #ECK
#AlphabetChallenge, #WeekMForMovies (Fire and Rain, a 1989 TV Movie)

Silhouetted trees against a colorful dusk sky, with layered clouds glowing orange and purple near the horizon.

dusk exalts the dawn

#vss365 #Exalt #Monostich #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #Photography #Nature #Sky #Skyscape #EveningSky #Dusk #Sunset #ImageAndVerse #EastCoastKin