Bayonne.........

Yes, she's really in New Jersey
Sometimes that's overlooked
Visible, always there.
One can see a lot from Bayonne.
Not exactly this view.
One can go north'ish,
beyond north, north-east Bayonne.
and then take Artistic Liberty
(see more from the City of Bayonne here)

.....LOUDmeow

Summer flowers......

The colors of summer. Hot colors in the sunlight.
Awash in the green back-ground cover, and
still rising tall, reaching to stand out, to almost shout.
To some, just weeds in the grass.
To another bug, their favorite flower.

....LOUDmeow

Finding the Black Pearl...

Arrrgh!!!! We searched high & low,
but carefully, knowing she was cursed.
At least the stories said she was cursed.
Yet we were not afraid when we found her, dockside.
We stood still, gathering up the strength to board.
And couldn't help but think, she should have been much larger.
But this has to be the 'Black Pearl', it says so, right there
in plain sight.......and where are those raucous buccaneers hiding???
(don't get to use words like 'raucous' that often)

.....LOUDmeow

June blooms

The sweet scent of the last of the lilacs still fills
the evening air. Butterflies work the blossoms.
And rose petals fall quickly along the path,
like foot-steps to follow; someone's left a trail.
Hiding amongst the lupine,
the cats are waiting to pounce.

....LOUDmeow

Early Summer Blooming....

New buds have started now
And a light rain begins to fall
Mosquitoes everywhere
Summer near the woods....

....LOUDmeow

Spring Blooming....

Blue sky, new blossoms, birds singing....
All the usual pleasant spring things
Even the bugs.....
Flowers with bugs....everywhere

.......LOUDmeow

Lions in the grass....

Looking for a good reason not to mow the lawn,
she remembered the endangered "-lions".
These you cannot step on, let alone cut down.
It was some environmental law, and certainly enforcers
were monitoring with hidden cameras and other spy-things.
And "-lions" had their own support groups, with T-shirts
and fund raisers and a radical arm that spread dissension.
OK, maybe not a arm, more like a paw.
Danger, "-lions" everywhere. It's magic.

.....LOUDmeow