Run-up to December - HAIKU

                                                                autumn-bare crape myrtle

AN OAK LEAF FALLS

INTO THE MINI-ROSE BUSH

WINDCHIMES' TUNE

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one month later

finding

my Halloween shirt

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flying

into the birdbath

leaves and shadows

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CAT JUMPS TO THE RIM

OF THE BIRDBATH . . . PERKS HIS EARS

AT A FLOATING LEAF

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skimming

in the lake water

trees and clouds

(photo, S. Breidenthal, AD-G)

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late November

beyond the bare tree, a flock

of blackbirds fly by

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A THUNDERSTORM

INTERRUPTING

MY RAKING

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grandson in a crape myrtle at The Wharf

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