Last Tomato

LAST TOMATO HANGING

dried vines
juicy red fruit
split from recent rains

bees and bugs
and butterflies
lick sweet fermentation

fly off with silly grins
spring's promise
summer's heat

boiled in its own taught
wrapper weeping
warm tears

crimson orb
pierced - penetrated
impregnated by things
with wings

robust living
pulsating
red womb
alive

funeral ants climbing
up golden stalks
crispy stems

dis-assemblymen
eager for
this season

Meet Horace

Meet Horace, our back yard tortoise. He was first spotted in the spring wandering around a crape-myrtle bush. Lately he has appeared in the garden and this morning he was lustily eyeing the fading tomatoes staked high on sticks. He is a rather quick turtle who moves right along when he wants to get somewhere.



He didn't mind having his photo taken, but then let me know that it was time for him to move on. He had interesting places to go, places I had never seen. I think he likes rotten vegetables and fruit as I've seen him frequent the compost hole. I know there is a poem about our Horace. I'll have to go find it!

Jocassee

With school back in session and temperatures blessedly below 90 degrees, we enjoyed another camping adventure at Lake Jocassee which appeared very tropical this week!

A water site allowed us to swim and launch the kayaks right out the back door.

We do like to camp with electricity which makes baking cupcakes in "the wild" possible!

Morning Glory

As some of you may know, because I talk about it all the time, I am compiling a collection of my poems about spring. Or, springish that captures a little summer as well. There are three, so far, about morning glories which flourish on our hillside. Enjoy this tasty one:



MORNING GLORIES ARE
PROLIFIC AND ADVENTUROUS

LIKE CURIOUS PUPPIES
THEY PEEK AND POKE

THEIR NOSES
AROUND

SNIFFING AND SNUFFLING
MORNING'S
FRESH DEW

EACH GLORY AWAKENING
FOR THE FIRST TIME

TRUMPETING PURE
UNADULTERATED
JOY

AT THE WONDER
OF SUCH

NEWNESS
SWEETNESS
KINDNESS

A NEW GLORY
FOR
EACH DAY

HIP HIP HURRAY!

Easy Sailing

Is that not one of the most beautiful amazing things you've ever seen? Summer has arrived hot and furious in the south which drives all of us southerners inside to partake of air conditioning and mint juleps (perhaps). Inside you may read books about other folks doing things or you can actually do something yourself. So, in the summer's heat I decided to make another art quilt using a sail-boat as my cooling motif. It is very cool!!!