Fake Flamenco

Color Before the Snow

We saw several little crocus on our walk before the snow. They’re wrapped up in a blanket now. Which color is your favorite?¡Olé! –Rebecca This post is part of Cee’s Flower of the Day, Whatsoever is Lovely by XingfuMama. #FOTD

bilingual, En español, Nature, photography, writing

0 Days Left of Ice Fishing

Lake Mendota as seen from my bicycle. Spring LakeIce fishing houses gonefirst dark patcheson grainy icegive way to movementwebbed mallard feetthrough open waters –Rebecca Cuningham, March 25, 2023 0 días mas para pescar por el hielo El lago Mendota como lo vi por bicicleta. Lago en primaveraQuitaron las casitas de pescar por el hieloprimeros lugares […]

bilingual, En español, Nature, photography, Spanish Culture and Language

5 Playful Portents of Spring

A poem for Spring Green shoots reach from the ground testing the air Gathering sun and rain Blessing us with their promise to bloom Cinco portentos de la primavera y un poema Un poema de primavera Tallas verdes extienden de la tierra probando el aire Colectando sol y lluvia Regalándonos con su promesa de florecer […]

Mexico, Spanish Culture and Language, Texas, The Americas

The Gauntlet: My Part in the Fray

1925: A doctor of psychiatry and eleven fishermen were imprisoned in Mérida after their shipwreck off the coast of Mexico. That’s the sum of my friend’s grandfather’s winter break fishing trip that year. When Bill Lorenz told me the story and showed me a copy of his grandfather’s diary I was saddened at his grandfather’s […]

Nature, photography

Welcome Home 2 Ducks

So good to see the mallard pairs on our lakes and rivers. Soon their yellow balls of fluff will be floating along following them. The drakes are always too handsome with their flash of green. Here’s a pie coming your way… (duck!) ¡Olé! –Rebecca Nature Photo Challenge #4: Ducks

bilingual, En español, Humor, photography

Bit of a Road Detour Here?

We saw this sign on the way to a friend’s party. I imagine a large truck looming, backing up, in this arrow’s shaky past. Thought the remnant deserved a photo. Haiku proceed this way please signs, telegraph messages through a zig zag world –Rebecca Cuningham, 17 March 2023 ¿Un desvío pequeño por aquí? Vimos este […]