Horse

        (Photo from hipwallpaper.com)

Monarch asleep – Haiku

The other day, a Monarch was resting on one of my little pine trees. She gently fluttered her wings, then laid them open, then appeared to have slept. I live in the city, so I was very happy to have had my yard used as a migration rest-stop and sanctuary : )      

Blue Crow

    (Photo from hdnicewallpapers.com)

Shadow

    (Cooper’s Hawk photo from audubon.org)

Last Words of the Last Lion of the Skeleton Coast

I saw a PBS special several years ago about the Skeleton Coast wildlife. I was devastated to hear, during the program, that they had filmed the last lion of the coast. So I wrote this for the lions. I have since read that the population of the coastal lions of Namibia has been revived! Great