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An uninvited guest in the changing season, the ladybug hunkers in, climbing in through gaps in the window frames, clinging on to vertical spaces

We soon forget they're even there

barely aware of the teems of insects inhabiting our house in deep winter, sheltering against the cold

for #mastoprompt

Sometimes, the playlist is a list of things to play with, small aural objects built on chords and keys, a landscape of harmony

for Terry

Catch a glimpse inside the brilliance of this wooded canvas artwork

before the performance begins its fade -

a perennial victim of Autumn's colder nights and sunnier days

for #mastoprompt

Covered, but with little protection, the small stream wanders on, unaware of our footfalls tapping a rhythm to the woods, singing a song like the skin of a drum

for #writeout

Aloft on the currents of air

the red-tailed hawks seemed perturbed, disturbed

by something our shallow eyes could not see

for #mastoprompt

An Autumn apple - though bruised and blemished - but still as sweet as earth and air

for #mastoprompt

Inside the bird's nest, her

mate calmly waits, her babies

anxious for bugs, festering for food

for #mastoprompt

With knitted needles of pine trees, each fallen leaf patches up the Earth

for Algot

Slash through wooded terrain

Find a way to escape the rain

Beneath the eaves of a mighty tree

Sing a song of the place we'd be

for #mastoprompt

Second by second

Minute by minute

Hour by hour

the unwelcome elusive invasive long-horned Asian beetle devours our Maples

changing the neighborhood forever

for #mastoprompt