The sky slides from grey to blue.
The patchy alley cat walks his beaten path through the snow.
Birds do their work.

Cold rain & sharp wind opens the day.
The mountain is wrapped, shrouded, veiled in low thick clouds.
Mist descends.
A single maple has turned itself on, red & yellow & flecked with gold against the flat, wet green mountain.

The morning rain pauses for a moment, and veiled sunlight takes the stage.
A seagull pokes around in the muddy grass, looking for breakfast I suppose.
The rain turns itself off & on with no rhymes nor reasons throughout the long, gray day.

A flurry of sparrows rushing from one tree to another, like a gust of wind.
Warm sunlight & clear blue skies spread themselves evenly & lovingly across the day.
A couple of trees starting to yellow & wane.
A black cat with green eyes shuns me in the alley.
Sunlight bakes the insides of my bare forearms at its zenith.
Three sparrows return for a visit later in the day.

Spooky morning fog, burnt off by 10 AM.
Blue morning glories with dusty yellow centers.
The green force of the life-matrix, fully.
Giant yellow hibiscus blossoms.
Pretty pink flowers cascading from above.
Giant palm leaves like elephant ears filtering the morning sunlight.
Papyrus, spiky & erect.
Peace & oxygen & sunlight abounding about.
1000 green sparkling leaves of 1000 different plants.
A magnificent, stately Jade tree twisted into a kingly configuration.
White flowers, yellow flowers, red flowers, pink flowers, blue flowers, all served on a vast bed of green leaves.

Saturday morning sunlight sparkling across the choppy waves of the river.
Black sesame seeds floating on the surface of the water.
A blade of long river grass floats by under the water.
Whitecaps & their waves spice the surface of the water.
A tall, lone beech tree has begun to yellow, announcing its avant-garde tendencies to the rest of the trees, still green.
Wind about the trees & grass.

The river gurgles softly.
Light sparkles silently.
A dusty grasshopper on the dusty path.
Long, wet grass under foot.
Quietude.

Hazy sun breaking through at the start of the day.
A slight chill holds out from the night before.
A crow chants mantras somewhere in the distance.
Little white flowers tremble in the morning air.
Two ducks float on the choppy waters of the canal.

The day after Hurricane Irene comes & blows & goes.
Snapped branches litter the sidewalks.
Sky clear & crisp & blue as water.
Sparrows flit from branch to branch.
The canal sparkles with later summer early morning light.

Crow conference in the big tree out back first off this morning.
Bumble bees busy at work on the yellow & pink flowers.
Sunlight streaming all over the day.
Green-eyed cat about me.
Swollen, filthy pitbull with scabby skin lounging in the morning sun.