Caught a Daphne in Bloom

Caught a Daphne Bush in Bloom

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                         Caught a Daphne Bush in bloom.

                         There are three of them in this garden
                         on South Drive.

                         You see the thing is

                         they don’t normally grow in our climate.

                         They do best a temperate zone south or two.

                         Beautiful small pink white flowers

                         that exude a perfume like none other - 
                         Lilac-Rose-Lemon.

                         Salut Daphne.

Horse Chestnut Bloom

Horse Chestnut Bloom

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                            The spring is galloping away

                            with the Horse Chestnut blooms

                            all skyward.

                            We will pay a price for this,

                            a good conch to the head,

                            by the nut in the fall.

Variegation

Variegation

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                              Variegate, yes.

                              Another measure 

                              of our nature.

Walk in Fountain

Walk in Fountain

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                            I love a walk in fountain.

                            As, too, does the Poodle.

                            (She’s not in the pic.)

                            (But Pride’s just round the corner.)

Brick Wall

Brick Wall

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                  I have run into many of these before.

                  This one I saw coming

                                                   and managed to evade.

Trees at Cherry Beach, 2

Trees at Cherry Beach, 2

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                                Tree branch sky veins.

Trees at Cherry Beach, 1

Trees at Cherry Beach 1 (Dog Ramble)

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The Cherry Beach dog ramble.

Curiously without rambling dogs.

Maktar

Maktar (?)

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[graffiti image]

Dandelion Cluster

Dandelion Cluster

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                                A Dan-dill-ion cluster.

                                Craigleigh Park.

Granite Plinth

Granite Plinth, Queen's Park

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                            Granite plinth in need of statue

                            prefer classical but nothing etched in stone,

                            a Moore or Brâcuşi

                            would not be turned away.

Spring Vale, Milkmen's Lane

Spring Vale, Milkmen's Lane

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                                       As we climb Milkmen’s Lane

                                       we turned to admire

                                       the vale below.

Two Spring Puddles

Spring Puddle 1

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Spring Puddle 2

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                                We all show our origins.

                                As first from the firmament

                                the puddle water

                                     reveals its joy

                                     in earthly flora.

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms

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I'll be back late June

for the bounty!

Greenissimo

Trees from the Sherbourne Bridge

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 To cross the Sherbourne Bridge, just north of Bloor,

 is to find oneself in the tree canopy of the Rosedale Valley Ravine.

 What a riotous comic calamity of green today.

                             Greenissimo! 

Hank's Hideaway

Hank's Hideaway*

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*This is its real name. Perfect, isn't it.

Wood Steps

Wood Steps

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'Neath the Wood Chips

Wood Chips

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                              ‘Neath these wood chips

                               are Echinacea

                                                     I know

                                                     because every year

                                                           they come 

                                                           up.

Beyond

Beyond

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                          It is just sky and clouds

                                                 and beyond,

                          the stardust whence we came.

Tree Trunk #12 (The Island)

Tree Trunk #12 (The Island)

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                            She is an island in a darkened sea

                              over washed with surge

                                 of her own bark ripped

                                    apart.

                           Her red-orange tracery demarks her pride

                              but we can see by the whites

                                    inside

                      she is not for long.

The Burst

The Burst

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                          Spring is not delicate here. It bursts.

                          One day there are buds and snow scratches

                          the next the surge and proclamation

                          then summer’s assertion statute.

                         [Current situation: mid proclamation, early assertion...
                           10, 9, 8, 7...]

About Leaving the Past

About Leaving the Past

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                          Listen to the visual - the broken past -
                             the new present
                                  the future to be.

                            

Rock Face

Rock Face

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                           The moody rock face

                            splashed with moisture

                            is quite amusing.

                            His jokes are heartwarming,

                            and his sarcasm

                            sublime.

Tree Trunk #11 (Green Octopus)

Tree Trunk #11 (Green Octopus)

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                             The green octopus

                             is the sage of the forest.

                             Only the poetic

                             hear her voice.

Great Love

Great Love

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                               She has soared to the ground.

                               She had great love, lust,
                               and lavish caresses.

                                                She bounded the universe.

                               She accepted as is

                                                        that is.

                                    

Pregnant Earth

Pregnant Earth

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                           Calving thousands

                           or more years old

                                   rocks and boulders,

                            the earth gives birth to that which

                                  we clamber upon and sometimes,

                                             stub

                                             our 

                                             toes.

The Colour Fuschsia

The Colour Fuchsia 

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                             More than pretty colours

                             she shows that we will survive

                                                    in perfume,
                                                    love, and remembrance.

Rock Mirror

Rock Slice

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                             This wet rock was sliced

                             to be a sort of bench

                             they didn't know 

                                             it really wanted

                                             to be a mirror.