Look For More Beauty: ImproVerse Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns August 5, 2019August 19, 2019

When you take time to/ Look and find more beauty amidst the wildflowers near Chickamauga butterfly - August 2019
look for beauty, you might be/
rewarded with more.

Nature Observation | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Finding Wonderful Hidden Wildflowers: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns August 22, 2019August 24, 2019

It is often so/ that when we clear dross and junk,/ we find wonderful. Using a loping shears to clear underbrush and non-native privet from around the hardwood trees in my back yard reveals an undergrowth of black-eyed susans and other hidden wildflowers. Sometimes you have to burn the grasses and weeds from large fields,…

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Nature Observation

Albino Grackle – What Is It!?!
ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2016April 19, 2018

A couple of years ago (July 2016) my dad said he thought he’d seen a white bird feeding with a bunch of dark (purple) grackles at a neighbor’s lake-side bird feeder (normally reserved for geese and ducks). Sure enough, when I went out to see, I was able to video this rare albino grackle! One…

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Nature Observation | Nature's Laws

No Silence In Nature: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns June 6, 2019July 30, 2019

There’s no silence/ in Nature, nor would I/ want there to be. (Written as part of our Creative Expressions Retreat on our property across from the Chickamauga NMP –> http://passionretreats.com/creativeexpression6-26/ )

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Nature Observation

Barred Owl in Hickory Tree
ByDavid Kuhns April 19, 2018

Coming through the woods at about 8:15 a.m. today, I spotted what I think is a barred owl in a shagbark hickory tree. It was surveying the white crownbeard wildflower patch, before heading off to a higher viewpoint. Here’s the YouTube video. I also joined eBird, run by Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology. Looks to…

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Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Make A Redneck Birdbath: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns October 13, 2019October 14, 2019

Old satellite dish,/ turned skyward, filled with water:/ Fine redneck birdbath.

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Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

Life And Death — It Happens. Sadly.
ByDavid Kuhns May 4, 2018May 5, 2018

Today, in a single, natural life and death moment, I rediscovered the phrase “To Kill A Mockingbird.” It’s spring. Birds aren’t known for paying attention when they’re in love. So it was, evidently, with the mockingbird that jumped into the path of my ragtop today. I didn’t even hear a thunk, but looking in my…

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