Where is Everybody?

#Writeclub #Whereiseverybody Photo by Simon Berger on Pexels.com The festivities of christmas and winterval over Heaven’s open to a brand new year Everyone’s wrapped up tightly while You are pondering when the Mercury is going to move As you tap the thermometer on the wall Robins, Blackbirds and Starlings are passing by the window Expecting …

Silent Night

#Christmas Its funny really the people have gone crazy leading up to this point running around for gifts and presents those extra special things for the kids to unwrap left under the tree Mountains of Food, prepared for the feast and landed on a fancy table around the beast visits from family few days after …

Burning

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com With a change from Summer to Autumn The trees that aren’t conifers are sending out a vital message “Winters on its way!” – They say as the forest lights switch from green to red signalling to those creatures, that wait that perhaps it’s time to hibernate so forest creatures , …

Rising Up

Canopy Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge. Photo credit: Tanya Grant. The trees started off small Tiny compared to their parents The saplings sleeping in their bed of soil The animals that lived there Shared the spoils, feeding the tree while eating the fruit And slowly the trees headed for the sky and from the tops …

Tulips in the snow

#Napowrimo #Writeclub Another response to a writeclub prompt by yours truly cheers to Gary @ Writeclub for providing it Tulips in the snow (Public Domain) The bulbs had sleeping all Winter waiting for a small hint of Spring they’d been waiting for the soil to warm up and thinking of the colour they’d bring So …

Snowy Peaks

#writephoto Somewhere up here , there’s a Number of sheep, celebrating the holidays Of course – among the white stuff you’ll only spot em When they move about Yet, at the moment – they’re blending in Shepherds keep an eye on the length of the pastures grass as over time – where the sheep are …

Unseen

#writeclub #winter The crows sat atop the garden trees looking for their friends They’d hopped onto a thermal wind headed for lands end the pigeons were still sat about on a gable end but the other birds were hidden on a greenish bend for while the trees were caked with snow and the winter wind …

waiting on the snow

#weather There must be something wrong with the thermometer for the man at the met.office is suggesting we all wrap up snug and warm in the next few days His colleagues and pals say “its too warm for snow” but its hiding in the clouds while the winds are a go waiting for a mercury …

Hazard

#fowc #winter #hazard Photo by Constantin Dorin Adrian on Pexels.com Holes in the pavement and black ice – dont really make good conditions for zipping about on a winters morning as one or the other will see you flat on your back or rolling about on the floor – worse still – the drop might …