Marsh Wren Watercolor; the bird lives around Banks Lake
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Wednesday WrapUp Lots of Animals

Lots of animals this week, and a few florals

Banks Lake; dog on alert; poem: His Playground Sniff: nose to the ground; alert: attend to that sound: splash! Muskrat retreats. Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.15.2025 NaPoWriMo
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His Playground

He prances and plays -- until alerted to a creature elsewhere -- what is it?

Banks Lake looks quiet, but lots are hidden but heard; with poem-- Our Country Torn, Still In the bulrush, a flutter of wings, a splash warns, the dog turns at each Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.14.2025 NaPoWriMo
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Hidden but Heard

drive by the serene scene, but there's a lot going on...

Western terrestrial garter snake near Banks Lake, WA and poem: And You Should Have Seen Him Jump He walked by until I called out, “Snake,” and he jumped four feet left; “Where?” “There!” Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.12.2025 NaPoWriMo
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Did you see him jump?

It's spring: not only flowers, but the snakes come out too

wild rose bush in April with mossy wasp gall and poem: Mossy Wasp Gall, Dried Holes in early spring’s gall; remnants of escaped wasps? Or a bird’s pecked treat? Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.11.2025 NaPoWriMo
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Sleepless, A Cure

not really: but what is that growth on your rose?

Canada Geese on Banks Lake, WA and the poem Geese Wait Geese so graceful seem pensive, still, as lake ripples spread from the dog’s run Sheri Edwards Poetry/Photography/Haiku 04.10.2025 NaPoWriMo
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Geese Wait

What is that creature walking through the cattails?