Saturday, January 14, 2023

CREW Bird Rookery January 14, 2023

Friday, January 13, 2023

Six Mile Cypress Slough January 13, 2023

stepping out together

Walking early morning single file

Following your lead as usual 

Knowing you always bring a map

With trail markers to guide us


We are listening for animals 

Looking around for movement

Hoping to notice what lives here

In this remaining undeveloped patch


You keep up a steady pace

I sometimes match stride for stride

But often pausing and lagging behind 

When something catches my eye


Dropping back to quickly take photos

Collected for later to get a closer look

Now in a hurry to catch you up

Taking big steps moving quickly


Sometimes you wait for me 

Eager to point out what you have seen

Sometimes you just keep going

But I have longer legs than you 


We are each on our own

Moving independently 

But never very far apart 

Paired up happily together


After dinner walking side by side

Going around the neighborhood

Talking about whatever interests

Watching the evening light fade


Passing people along the way 

Keeping their routine like us

In this the dog walking hour

Arriving back home from work


We mark the passage of time

Watching the moon wax and wane

Locating mars and venus east and west 

And jupiter up high overhead 


Repeating the same daily pattern 

Taking a certain comfort from it

As long as we can continue like this

Stepping out together 

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Bunche Beach January 12, 2023