Watching sporting dogs
we marvel at their fitness
No tomorrow style
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
999 Verandakus: #522 from Veranda Life
Seagulls aplenty
waiting for plenty of scraps
No luck with ice-creams
Thursday, December 29, 2011
999 Verandakus: #521 from Veranda Life
Frangipani blooms
well placed on a scrubby beach
No competition
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
999 Verandakus: #520 from Veranda Life
Greek salad, chips, fish
Seaside lunch including tips
for freeloading gulls
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
999 Verandakus: #518 from Veranda Life
A fly’s true beauty
depends on its company
Petals trump the tip
Sunday, December 25, 2011
999 Verandakus: #517 from Veranda Life
Pigeons on the make
enjoy the butcher bird’s lunch
with moments to spare
Saturday, December 24, 2011
999 Verandakus: #516 from Veranda Life
An ant’s face up close
Concentration obvious
Estimating chance
Friday, December 23, 2011
999 Verandakus: #515 from Veranda Life
Spidertown cafe
Dinner guests are always blessed
with attentive staff
Thursday, December 22, 2011
999 Verandakus: #514 from Veranda Life
Where pink flowers grow
I stop to take deeper breaths
before the hill climb
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
999 Verandakus: #513 from Veranda Life
Courting garden snails
decide on separate ways
Speeding unnoticed
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
999 Verandakus: #512 from Veranda Life
Jumping spider waits
for cat grass to undulate
Leaping leverage
Monday, December 19, 2011
999 Verandakus: #511 from Veranda Life
Two ants meet for lunch
It sounds like a set-up line
Deadly serious
Sunday, December 18, 2011
999 Verandakus: #510 from Veranda Life
A mushroom village
the place to be after dark
struggles with sun storms
Saturday, December 17, 2011
999 Verandakus: #509 from Veranda Life
After gardening
wheelbarrows standing quite still
Cradling the earth
Friday, December 16, 2011
999 Verandakus: #508 from Veranda Life
Recently built homes
filling with gadgets, stuff, dreams
History repeats
Thursday, December 15, 2011
999 Verandakus: #507 from Veranda Life
Umbrellas seem strong
when tail winds strike by surprise
Fabric strains for home
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
999 Verandakus: #506 from Veranda Life
When heavy rain falls
my footsteps sound far away
Taking me elsewhere
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
999 Verandakus: #505 from Veranda Life
A sideways mailbox
gives the postie another
wrist movement to try
Monday, December 12, 2011
999 Verandakus: #504 from Veranda Life
There are Christmas smells
their sources unnamed, unseen
Travelling lightly
Sunday, December 11, 2011
999 Verandakus: #503 from Veranda Life
Fallen petals lie
waiting for rakes and mowers -
they prefer a gust
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
999 Verandakus: #501 from Veranda Life
For my birthday lunch
Half a century of food
I choose takeaway
Thursday, December 8, 2011
999 Verandakus: #500 from Veranda Life
On the roof, the rain
sounds angry and frustrated
On grass, it’s silent
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
999 Verandakus: #499 from Veranda Life
Sweet blossoms lie flat
and dying on the footpath
Ants find their new homes
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
999 Verandakus: #498 from Veranda Life
On top of the bricks
a lizard, fat and sleek, darts
away with its lunch
Monday, December 5, 2011
999 Verandakus: #497 from Veranda Life
Sun after showers
draws steam from hot macadam
Street humors rising
Sunday, December 4, 2011
999 Verandakus: #496 from Veranda Life
Crows and magpies strut
but they are simply walking
before taking flight
Saturday, December 3, 2011
999 Verandakus: #495 from Veranda Life
Letters for someone
Posted to a vacant house
Letters for no-one?
Friday, December 2, 2011
999 Verandakus: #494 from Veranda Life
As summer arrives
Flowers face the hot blue sky
and negotiate
Thursday, December 1, 2011
999 Verandakus: #493 from Veranda Life
Saints on pedestals
Frozen in time and placement
Hidden in plain sight
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
999 Verandakus: #491 from Veranda Life
Counting the raindrops
that fall from the ends of leaves
Infinity maths
Monday, November 28, 2011
999 Verandakus: #490 from Veranda Life
On showery days
it’s humid, cool, warm, and hot -
Spring’s indecision
Sunday, November 27, 2011
999 Verandakus: #489 from Veranda Life
The gardening man
leaves home in an ambulance
Rose bushes untrimmed
Saturday, November 26, 2011
999 Verandakus: #488 from Veranda Life
Late in the day, rain
Hearing it hit the roof
as good as watching
Friday, November 25, 2011
999 Verandakus: #487 from Veranda Life
The sun appears
Cars speed up, dogs play, kids run
before the next storm
Thursday, November 24, 2011
999 Verandakus: #486 from Veranda Life
A blue-tongued lizard
Sunbaking on droughty grass
Momentary pause
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
999 Verandakus: #485 from Veranda Life
The rain falls hard for
the ground: dry and dusty and
in need of loving
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
999 Verandakus: #484 from Veranda Life
My cat rests upon
the bare garden patch where we
buried her sister
Monday, November 21, 2011
999 Verandakus: #483 from Veranda Life
Summer comes early
in Spring – everyone is
reaching for water
Sunday, November 20, 2011
999 Verandakus: #482 from Veranda Life
After the party
the balloons let themselves down
Slow, mortal, shrinking
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
999 Verandakus: #480 from Veranda Life
A cloudy morning
The gift of a cooler dawn
Raindrops kiss my arm
Thursday, November 17, 2011
999 Verandakus: #479 from Veranda Life
The new neighbour’s cat
stands out in its new surrounds
It thinks otherwise
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
999 Verandakus: #478 from Veranda Life
Ruffle-feathered friend
on a beautiful Spring day
Why so out of sorts?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
999 Verandakus: #477 from Veranda Life
Cricketers’ weekend
on fields across the country
White plays green and red
Monday, November 14, 2011
999 Verandakus: #476 from Veranda Life
Lively crowds converge
Ghosts of the dead move closer
on Remembrance Day
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
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