Autumn Wildflower
autumn wildflower
(10/18, 1998)
First Place at Indian Lake a thistle grips a white feather JoannSecond Place show and tell trembling in her hands a burdock's bur copyright 10/12/1998 by Wendy C. BialekThird Place in an alley behind the coffee shop chicory soji after the frost, sunflower petals falling one by one Dennis H. Dutton spikes of blazing star - a butterfly hovers over the garden shears doris kasson BELOW THIRD PLACE stopping our walk for almost a quarter hour wild geranium Charles Trumbull bitterweed - gold bouquets adorn cow pasture Elsie Canfield from a distant city I recall the goldenrod which guards my home hilary tann a crisp breeze searching for gentian - scent of wood smoke lee ana schaefer stone rabbits in the Cosmos flowers the cat sits patiently by Jeanne Zastera purple loosestrife shedding color in the family Bible tom williams with a jolt, a grasshopper leaping from the goldenrod Laura pale asters in the broken cliff layers red-pine roots Paul MacNeil sunrise ~ a blaze of red and purple morning glories Betty kettle moraine walk; a pale wild geranium by the parking lot Joe Kirschner early morning chill- white oleander blossoms peer through the fog Carolyne October blooms are for others- in the mountains snow blankets the ground Gary Steinberg low sun the heather's blue pollen Hugh Waterhouse asters on the meadow a goat herd -ito pink flowers created her blooming rose hips built for marmelade emile molhuysen on sluggish stream- feather and goldenrod bloom migrate south R. W. Richardson {c 10-12-98}
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