For St Pete

'first name'_'last name'@mac dot com

it's like a haiku poem :)

Waking to a Dream

I woke up one morning,
opened my eyes,
and blinked… and blinked again.

The sun peeked at me
through the same
east-facing window.

I blinked again,
and lay looking
at the same sun.

Everyday it greeted me,
never a change
in its warmth.

My heart kept me laying… blinking.
It was beating fine,
a steady beat, a familiar rhythm.

But it was heavy.
It was an anchor, it was lead.
And I was unable to move.

Then I realized…
I was nothing but a dream.
So I closed my eyes,
and woke up,
and ceased to be.

And now the east
has grown dark.
And I'm flying
looking for the sun.

Missing Summers

When summers seemed never-ending,
and ice cream was like little angel kisses
straight from heaven…

When shoes and shirts were optional,
and hours were spent crawling in a field of wildflowers
looking for four-leaf clovers and lady bugs.

Or just laying on my back watching the clouds
make animal shapes as they drifted
across the pale blue summer sky.

Holding tightly to a coil of string
legs crossed, breeze drying my sweat
and watching a kite dance for me.

When… when...
when did the summers go missing?

I still have that child wonder,
I still have that happiness,
that genuine glee and sparkle
that can be seen
in a child's eyes
when he's given a candy
or going for a cool swim.

What I don't have
are those summers that
seem never-ending.

The boy remains the same
but his world has changed.

Finished grocery shopping...

I just finished grocery shopping. Notice how considerate I am. I returned the empty shopping cart to the shopping cart parking area... Then the mosque man started. I got in my car and put in The Melvins and left... a simple video of contrast.

A Snake and some Mushrooms

A spitting black cobra... he didn't spit at me... got angry though...


Brown and white on a dead tree...


Rusty color shelf...


My favorite... orange cup mushrooms...


White on a dead black tree trunk...


A reef of mushrooms on a dead tree...


Perfect mushrooms...


Yellow orange mushroom garden