Monday Music: Early Morning Rain

 

This is Peter Paul & Mary at the top of their game appearing on the BBC TV program, "Tonight in Person." The year was 1966 and they are singing a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, "Early Morning Rain." Dick Kniss is the upright bass player off to the side. A self-taught musician, he played bass for PP&M for over 40 years and was sometimes called "the fourth member of the trio."

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Saturday Haiku: Bird-feeding

  

With careful purpose

     a safe space is created;

     our worlds briefly touch.

                                ~ CK

  

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Photos: Clockwise from upper left: birds eating seeds (Finland), goldfinches, red-bellied woodpecker, sparrows, mourning dove at feeding table, hairy woodpecker

All photos are Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A Poem from Winter

Winter View

The winter sky is calm and gray

As a cold mist glistens the ground.

The crooked grief of dormant trees

Weighs lightly on the seasoned, rugged limbs.

The lone mournful cry of a killdeer

Lobs across the hills

And a wistful but gallant mutt of a dog

Traverses the wet pavement.

My heart lies in wait

Surveying the scene.

Inward sight casts hues of longing

On sky and tree.

My soul throws mournful colors

On sound and sight.

My spirit breathes

With the cold mist

And gives thanks to the earth

For gifts that await. 

                                         CK

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Photo: Winter Tree near Ellerton Abby
Credit: Christine Johnstone, contributor to The Geograph Project
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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