Category Archives: California
Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Campsite
A few shadows linger around an empty campsite, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
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Scream
An almost cloudless day makes it easy for raptors to hunt in California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
A few passing clouds
can’t mute a hawk’s piercing scream—
the field mice tremble.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tribute
Detail from a painting in a Northern California art store: sunflowers in a vase.
our fitting tribute
to summer’s fecund goddess:
dazzling sunflowers
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Blue Monday: Distant Mountain
Colorful aspen trees brighten a hillside in California’s Inyo National Forest.
From a distant mountain, surrounded by blue sky,
I hear a raven calling, and I wonder why.
Perhaps he has a message that I need to hear,
Or maybe it’s just nonsense—who will make it clear?
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Authenticity
Colorful aspen trees brighten a hillside in California’s Inyo National Forest.
Authenticity:
the aspens do not pretend
to be oaks or pines.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
Blue Monday: Mountain View
Aspen trees light up a mountainside in Inyo National Forest, California.
Beyond the mountains a patch of blue
Calls to a crow, and calls to you too.
Who’ll answer the call: you or the crow?
Only the glowing aspen trees know.
Poem and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
Blue Monday: Rainbow
A rainbow brightens part of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
Even a rainbow brighter than bright
Can never begin to outshine the night;
But hang it high in a desert place
And watch the barrenness glow with grace!
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Macro Monday 2: Cactus Blossom
Autumn is a good time to remember cholla cactus blossoms in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
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Shadowy
Inyo National Forest near Bishop, California.
Autumn afternoon—
I take the shadowy path
without companions.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blue Monday: At the Lake
A bright-blue autumn sky is reflected in a lake in Inyo National Forest, California.
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