An old oak in spring//el viejo roble

 even the gnarled oak

has decided that it's spring--

sports a fringe of green

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El viejo roble

siente la primavera

Ya reverdecer

Poppies//Amapolas

 

spring equinox last night

poppies burst open today

how did they know?

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Equinoccio hoy.

Salen las amapolas.

¿Cómo lo saben?

meses locos // crazy months

Mañanas frescas

Días con viento fuerte

Febrero, marzo

Photo credit: Chris Williamson

Días variados

Cambios bruscos de clima

Loco febrero

MGE

Fresh bracing mornings
days full of blustering winds
February, March

Every day different

abruptly changing weather

what a crazy month

REA

Seeds of grass / semillas de hierba

REA

the dry stalks of grass

offer their seeds to the wind

fall hoping for spring

los tallos secos 
las semillas al viento
 calor esperan

A spotted pony--un pony pinto

A spotted pony

prances through belly high grass

this windy spring day

 

un pony pinto 
corre sobre la hierba
en primavera 

POPPIES IN SPRING

poppies line the path

the scent of dill and new grass

this sunny spring day



campo florido
olor a hierba fresca
mañana con sol

California poppies
Credit: Robert Adler

Jacaranda in bloom

the jacaranda

flowers bluer than the sky

Oaxaca in spring


la jacaranda
contrasta flores y cielo
es primavera.

Photo credit: REA

aspens in autumn / álamos temblón en otoño

The mountain aspens

turn gold before their leaves fall.

Do they dream of spring?


aspen montaña
cascada de dorados 
sueña con abril.

autumn--otoño

Now the stalks of grass
sway and wave in a dry wind
this spring all was green


tallos de hierva
secos por el otoño
antaño verdes

Ripe berries tempt me
but I think I'll leave them there
for the winter birds

bayas maduras 
dejare de comerlas 
comerán aves