Rain and Shine

Photo Haiku (Haiga)

Hello, all! I hope you’re doing well this Tuesday. Here in coastal Delaware, our cardinals, finches, sparrows, and woodpeckers relish each rainy spring day. My writing has been sporadic for a couple of weeks, but our online house-hunting has been a success, and we are thrilled to have located a retirement home in a New Jersey shore community, with the closing scheduled for June 8! Our main needs were a great kitchen and back up to woods, as we do in our rented home. We got them both!

Earth heaves a rustic breath into spring (one of my roadside captures)

her spring suit - a robin sings in the peach tree (photo of Mel by dear Nana in 1958)

This has been our bird-filled backyard for three + years The maples are budding with all the rain. Joy!

I have been tortured by tinnitus an insidious hissing in my ears or head depending on how it is explained. It comes and goes, possibly with the barometer changes. So today, I write with a stretchy headband with blue tooth speakers at each ear and am listening to the persistent — yet to my affliction — a soothing sound of forest rain. How fitting!

even through rain gentle songs wait for you (photo by unknown, poem by Mel)

steam against my rainy window - giant palm (photo and poem from Florida by Mel)

on this gentle breeze soares memory - flock of white cranes (photo and poem by Mel)

grey fluid curtains - filmy sun (photo and poem by Mel)

You might have seen my recent post, “Early Spring a Gardening Haibun” which featured this haiga, composed with a photo I took of cherry blossoms on the Virginia highway.

in embroidered cotton the valley blooms

More to come on Roots and Branches by the weekend! Wishing you a peaceful second half of April’s first week. Remember what April showers bring…

With love, Mel

Goldfinch Photo by Maddy Weiss on Unsplash