Spring-like temperatures stole the show on this first day of Summer.
The average temperature for June 21 is 86°, but the 68°
we reached today is plainly ass-backwards.
The Summertime Blues shall have to wait, since
Spring came so unfashionably late.
Photographs by Uncle Tree
“Stay safe, folks!”
Keith
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It reached 99° here yesterday!
By one degree, we beat the record high set in 1912.
For comparison’s sake, last year the high was 76°.
On or off the water, everyone was hot to trot.
Seagulls seem to celebrate the heated debate.
Still, at the end of the day, there’s no better place to be.
Photographs by Uncle Tree
Branched Oak Lake
Lincoln, Ne.
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May you ever face the sunset landing bravely catty-cornered.
May you ever go down famously flaunting your fabulous colors.
May you ever remember how to get twiggy with it, when necessary.
May you ever say, “Cheerz!” to the merry month of May!
Photographs by Uncle Tree
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Well! Hello there, folks!
Did y’all come here just to see li’l ol’ me?
I am the last windmill, ya know!
The blackbirds told me so.
Stand back and endure the awe,
because fainting is against the law,
and awfully embarrassing, too, I hear tell.
As you pass on by, say, “Hey!” to my comrades for me, will ya?
before they’re rolled away to meet their Maker.
Don’t worry about those cows, now. Ya hear?
Once they come home, it’s all over for everybody.
River is an exception to that rule.
I pray it always runs.
Sir Windmill
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I’m from the Get-Down and Show-Me State of Missouri, where seeing is believing,
and believing is colorfully Royal, and royalty tends to turn every Tiger in the tank
into a Chiefly loyal mascot, as if it were a Cardinal rule.
Well, dear down-home folks, crane your necks and take a look at these
Sandhill Cranes, as they flit and soar like a swarm commanded by Moses!
Blessed be…
Photographs by Uncle Tree
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The Plains lie still in the wintertime,
gathering drifts of a chance design.
The north wind shapes the curvaceous lines
that flatter the figures of the pines.
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Captured in rapture
Far and in between each reach
One thought caught in mind
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Uncle Tree's House 