Find yourself the shade of a Maple or Pine or Oak – she spoke so quiet I had to lean in to hear - then, she said, disappear into the moment, a treat of relief from the fast-paced world

for #mastoprompt

Janus, at the door, tells the world: the year's gone by, is now, no more

It's time to step into the fore, with hope and grace and love, in store

We turn the handle to cross the floor, hands together, hopeful, but not quite sure

for #mastoprompt

Elevator Pitch:

the rhetorical angle by which the person in the room with you offers words to fix a problem

even as the world - untethered/unmoored - barrels ever faster towards disaster in the ditch

for #mastoprompt

Like wandering a field of debris, you see the ragged vines of pumpkins, the orange mash of rogues, each head tilting towards sky, smashed with seeds as feed for crows

for #mastoprompt

Sitting there on the porch in those old rickety chairs

we rock our way back, quiet, and stare

for #mastoprompt

The morning rain drops dreary weather

We huddle for dry beneath this tree together

for #mastoprompt

What seems impossible — that a landscape could become a work of art, changing before our very eyes, with shifting colors and moving parts — becomes reality in the seams of the transitional season

for #mastoprompt

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

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

Aloft on the currents of air

the red-tailed hawks seemed perturbed, disturbed

by something our shallow eyes could not see

for #mastoprompt