Backyard Visitors

A deer family (mom and 2 baby deer) frequenting our backyard this summer. The young deer  frolicking, chasing each other and running around is a delight to watch. 

Here is a children's short story I wrote sometime ago.

How Two Mischievous Deer and a Fawn took over a backyard!

Severe Weather Nashville - Summer Edition

 Summer runs from Jun 21 to Sep 23. This is a running tab of the weather here. 

June is bringing hot temperatures and also lots sudden showers

Jun 29 - Excessive Heat warning all week with temp climbing to 101 on Thu

The entire southern US hit by a massive heatwave. 

I also read that across the world the nighttime temperature is increasing faster than the daytime temperature. Which means there is less chance to cool down before the day heat hits again.

Thu started off hot - headed into the heatwave and ended up with severe thunderstorm alerts instead. A heavy downpour in the afternoon.  

Jun 25 - severe storm risk

Sat Jun 3: Sweltering weekends. Today's High 93

Sun Jun 4: Possible Pop Up Storm

Severe Weather Nashville - Spring Edition

Nashville sure has a lot of severe weather alerts.
This is a running tab for Spring Mar 30- Jun 20

(see here for winter)

Four Deer

A nice sight to wake upto early morning. Four deer camped, sitting/napping, in backyard.

Early morning, I see four deer

Sitting there, without fear

So calm and serene

Tall lush trees, their screen

Lovely sight to behold

Moment of beauty, untold

Oh deer!

Early morning deer chilling in front yard. 

 

Owl sighting

On a tree branch, the owl sits tight,

Watching all with wide eyes bright!

saw an owl scoop down and then fly up to perch on a backyard tree yesterday

and more owl hoots today.

 

Chipper Ahoy

View from my bedroom window this morning

A woodpecker chipping away at a tree stump. 

The red tuft on his head bobbing up and down. 

Wood chips and sawdust scattered around. 

Perchance, a nest or insect snacks in stump cracks?

Chipper Ahoy!!

A neat oval hole in the tree stump. 

6' (depth) x 6" (long) x 4.5" (wide)

Chipper mate!

What further plans have you in mind?

Zippity zop, the woodpecker bops

With flibbertigibbet in his chops
feathers shimmer, beak goes knock-knock 

As he dances on a tick-tocking clock

 

Cool mornings, mild afternoons to start the week

That's the weather forecast for today!! 

Cool mornings, mild afternoons to start the week

Nashville April in action, so to speak. 

One day it's sunny, the next it pours, 

But hey, at least don't need jackets outdoors!

Nashville next stop in Senseless School Shootings

This time a young white 28 year old female ex-student, walked into an elementary school with assault weapons and just shot 6 people, 3 staff and 3 kids aged 8-9. What a horrible tragedy.   

Why is the US the ONLY country in the world where young kids are getting shot in their own schools every few months? That too with assault weapons. 

This does not make sense. I wonder at the need to even own assault weapons when you live in a city. A gun makes remote sense maybe if you were living in the midst of the woods with a grizzly bear or packs or wolves on the loose. 

Just last week our professor had mentioned how suicide rates dramatically increased amongst women who's partner/boyfriend owned a gun. Why is there such an obsessive need to hand out guns to just about anyone so easily in this country. 

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, located just 4 miles from the school was where all the children were sent - already dead on arrival. How does a hospital emotionally prep for "emergencies" like this?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/31/1167375561/nashville-school-shooting-vanderbilt-hospital

Wind Advisory, Thunderstorm and Tornado Watch

Wind Advisory and Tornado Watch. Tornado missed us but crazy thunderstorm at night, pounding rain and blinding flashes of lightning. 

Thunderstorm brewing, lightning striking 

Electric sky bolts, bit frightening 

Nature's fury, quite enlightening 

Powerful energy, never tiring

The weather is absurd

The weather is truly absurd,

Can't decide. That's the Word!

Snow flurries on Saturday

Spring equinox the next day. 

Two days later, summer hot 

80 F? seriously, what have we got?

Now its pouring rain again

The weather is going insane

Severe Weather Nashville - Winter Edition

Nashville sure has a lot of severe weather alerts. This is the running tab for Winter (Dec 21 - Mar 20). 

March Snowfall, a Climate Change Call

Snow flurries gently fall

Mercury dips to a 27F crawl.
Bits of fluff dance and sway
Cherry blossoms on a spring day
I watch from my window, in awe of this display.

Calendar March, the weather all wrong
Days should be bright and long
Unexpected snowfall, sign of larger exchange?

World upended by climate change

A moment of peace

Two deer in my yard

Wandering from woods at the back 

Gentle, graceful steps 

Moment of peace, nature's gift

The gentle creatures graze

Unfazed by noise and haste

Their presence brings me ease

In this tranquil, natural space.

And Thank You to everyone who sent me wishes today (Feb 22) - for taking that one breath and one moment to send "happy" positive vibes my way, on my birthday.

Hints of green

On brown trees, hints of green 

A herald of spring
Softly appears, shy and demure,
A promise of new life, fresh and pure

Haikus for the love of spring

  Its feb 14 and spring is upon us. I see flowers bloom on my neighbor's tree. 

In the midst of bloom, 

Petals entwine, a sweet embrace, 

Love's essence inhaled.

Woody Vine Dance

Woody Vine Dance

Gale tosses the woody vines of tall trees.

Strong wind and rustling leaves.

Nature roars, unrelenting crescendo 

Rustic music and Woody Vine dance.

Twinkling Tree Canopy

Glass trees sweat in the winter sun

Refraction bends with ice melts.

Twinkling treetops in a blue sky

Canopy of stars in the daytime light.

The photo does not capture it but the tops of the trees were twinkling as the melting frost was refracted by the sunlight. It was like seeing stars in daytime. 

Winter Thaw

Golden sun swathes the trees
Winter thaw, nature awakes
Twittering birds in flights of awe
Dancing from tree to tree to tree


I woke upto sunshine today though the temperature is still in the 30s. My window view continues to be provide awe for me.

Hoarfrost and Icicles

glazed ice drape the leafless trees
ice sculptures of neural dendrites
...glistening at 27 degrees

white latticed cobwebs cover the brush.
fine needle crystals, it's hoarfrost.
water vapor turned solid, sublimation.
icicles drip by my windowsill
add to the morning chill