third day in October
birch tree leaves
by my study window
are green and gold in sun
Tag: Birch trees
the trees the light the sky
As wonderful as the colors of October are, I always feel blessed by November. I sit and read, as so often in my small study. How simple the view now. The trees the light the sky and words.
And as a creative note, I am enjoying Wisconsin Life, hosted by Angela Fitzgerald; along with other shows on PBS. So many good programs, about food, nature, arts and crafts.
Birch Tree Leaves is by Rex Vicat Cole and courtesy of Reusable Art.
garden notes
birch tree branch
outside my study
window
many new leaves
and another part
of the branch
that seems gone
yet visited by a bird
this morning
lilacs almost in bloom
and violets by the door
Journal Poems
June 2, 2019
Ellen Grace Olinger
Images: wpclipart
grey-green morning
grey-green morning
hosta plants grow
by different trees
and by the porch
colorful primroses
in the yard
grow and bloom
from garden to lawn
lilacs along the roads
and in the yard soon
May 29, 2019
Hosta by the birch tree yesterday
Ellen Grace Olinger
poems and photo
There is a lightness to the wind today. The evergreens picture joy.
birch tree branches
are simply themselves
no snow
frozen raindrops
from Sunday gone
soon the beginnings
of new green leaves
Poem from my archives:
in the backyard
birds back
and singing
never too old
to find this new
Photo of daffodils from April 2016:
Ellen Grace Olinger
how beautiful this day
as much as I look forward
to Spring – how beautiful
this day
with icicles and blue sky
birch trees and
Lake Michigan
more books to read
and poetry journals now
than I can in one season
I wonder where
some years have gone
many are here
Ellen Grace Olinger
Image: wpclipart
for a time
reading poetry
from books and journals
recently in the mail
and also on my shelves
for a time
and for a different
sense of time
the new sun
on the birch trees
in the back yard
January 2015
Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 