the garden

hellebore & pink glories in a stone river

they grow at Greenwood
and came along right after the snowdrops

the first

the earliest ones
always come into the house with us

finch visit

i was just sitting here
minding my own computer business
and enjoying the perfect spring rainy day
when a finch came to say high

Magnolia Lace

We are in the greening
and amidst all the lovely daffs
and red-tipped tulip leaf spears
are the delicate, but surprisingly strong
remnants of last year's magnolia leaves
looking like tattered bits of an old lady's antimacassar
scattered about the garden
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After i was finished making photographs of them

i picked them up
and put them in the car
where they road around with me for some time
before i could bring myself
to toss them back to earth.