It's the Tiny Things

I think I can now safely say Spring is really here, and snow will remain a distant memory. I find myself enjoying being out in nature more and soaking it up with all my senses.

• the smell of my lavender lilacs

• the sound of baby birds in the birdhouse outside my home begging for food

• the softness of dogwood petals

• the baby goslings quietly paddling behind their mama

• the flavor of my summer drink- lemonade infused with passion fruit tea.

Can't you just smell them?

Spring shows us it is the tiniest things around us that can bring great joy.

This week, three Crayola crayon colors named after tiny things in nature caught my eye.

• Inchworm

• Robin's Egg Blue

• Canary

Inchworm

With this poem, I had fun with the text layout. First, I tried to have the text wrap in a single line around the image. Nope. Writing "stretch, arch, stretch" as a single line had no action, no movement, and this poem was all about the wonder a child has at this little green caterpillar's movement. Then I thought, "Why not 'animate' the action of the inchworm?" Thanks to Canva, I was able to bend and stretch the text into the inchworm shape. Then spacing the words made the worm have movement. I need to play with text options more, for sure!

Robin's Egg Blue

For this one, I thought a tricube would be good. Three stanzas, each with three syllables in each line. There is something I love about the simplicity of the form and how each word needs to count.

Canary

When I looked up inspirational images for the word 'Canary' I got 'canary in a coal mine'... Nope, didn't want to go there. Then there were plenty of pics of a canary in a cage. There was something sad about that to me. I began to wonder if the song that we assume is so happy and cheerful is really saying something different.

Lovely poet Patricia Franz is hosting this week at Reverie. You will be moved by her lovely poem and the photos of Yosemite. Yes, "Let's go be alive like that!"

Have a great weekend! See you next week :)