Cranes specks in the sky
Freezing cottonwoods shiver
Dawn spreads light’s colors
Sun sets behind wire
Orange glow fades out of reach
Thoughts gone asunder
Animals / Birds / Clouds / Corrales / Cottonwoods / cranes / Poetry / Sandhill Cranes / Sunrise / Sunset / Trees
Takes Two To Timku
Off Center & Not Even 
Simply lovely, Tim! xx
Thanks, Resa.
xx
You caught the bookends of the day in image and prose very beautifully, Tim.
Thanks, Lavinia.
Great pair of images and Timku’s. The more you look the more cranes you see! They’re really specks in the sky. And the fence wire is different than what I’ve seen…not woven wire, and not the ‘normal’ cattle panel spacing. (Excuse the old nosey rancher coming out)
The wire is “Steel Welded Wire Rolled Fencing with Mesh Size 2-in x 4-in”. It’s common out here for domestic animals. Small animals like squirrels, small birds and smaller skunks (like the little skunk that sprayed Spunk in the face in the catio a couple of months ago) can get through the wire, but it’s a good barrier for dogs, cats, poultry, gouts, horses, cattle, etc. I wrote a song called “Sleeping With A Stinky Cat” after Spunk got sprayed. If you want to listen to it go to https://soundcloud.com/user-334086053/sleeping-with-a-stinky-cat?si=301c5fe9197c41708d22767f705ec605&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.
A lot of cranes are still flying through on their way south early every morning. A ranger told Bruce they moved the Festival Of The Cranes at Bosque del Apache to the first weekend in December because of the late arrivals. The Feastival of The Cranes is usually over Thanksgiving weekend. Thanks, Maj & Sher.
Oh, I so love these! Perfection, Timothy!
Thanks, Dale.
I love the photos and accompanying haiku!!
Timkus. Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim. I wasn’t sure whether the poems would be Timkus.
Around this house we do Timkus, Spunkus, or Laurkus depending on the author of the poem.
Got it!
Where the Timbuktu is Timku,
Timothy? 🌍 👀 I’ve been told
I’m a bit of a goose, so what’s
the chance those two geese
would take me too, to Timku?
🦆😎🦆
The geese, who often fly among the cranes, will totally take you to a Timku to Timbucktu or three, too. Or something like that. Thanks, David.
I know that cranes, with their very
long neck, don’t like to be mistaken
for geese, but what the heck 😎
They do hang out together and can sometimes be seen with a Great Blue Heron among them.
Majestic birds of a feather.
We have some black swans
nesting nearby, as it’s Spring
down under. I’ll post some pics
one day, after they’ve hatched
their young 🐣
Swans are beautiful. We don’t have swans in these parts.
Excellent pic and haiku 👏👏👏
Thanks, Gabriela.
My pleasure 🌸🌹
Sun up and sun down really do evoke different feelings and moods, captured so well with your words, Tim.
Thanks, Bruce.
Timku? Never come across that word before. Thanks for introducing …, Tim, and those pictures look so gorgeous together with the simple lines .
Thanks, Eunice. Spunku and Pigku have also found their ways to this blog. I’m of the opinion you can’t really do Haiku in English, so I call the poems I do with roughly 5, 7, 5 form with 17 syllables, Timkus.
Yes, you are right. I have not forgotten Pigku. Thanks for the explanation.
The field fence we used was a woven wire, 47 inch tall, with smaller bottom horizontal spreads from 3″ up to 8″ at the top. Topped with two strands of barb. Really liked the stinky Spunk song, some great guitar there…
It’s a funky piece because Spunk, skunk and funk all rhyme.
😁👍
Love that gradient sky! Terrific timkus! 😁
Thanks, Michele.
👍🏻
Now Timothy I go back to yesterday re the ski pic to what I didn’t say. That pic could ahve been taken by you because you see the beauty in the world. You see the beauty and you capture it perfectly. And these pics are the proof of that.
Thanks, Sjey. I appreciate that.
You are more than welcome. Credit is where it is due.
How do you like the my accidental spelling of your name?
Sounds…dare one say it… Russssian…..
Or Czec or Polish if you don’t want to go there with the Ruskies.
But listen I got terrible Raynauds and the family trait of arthritis in my hands, PLUS a dodgy internet signal, so I need no speak re typos x
Typos add a bit of interest to the blogsmhere.
Lol
Need to find out how to say that in Czech
I would guess Czey.
Tell you this, I can cuss and order a drink in most languages, including Russian, oh and Gaelic but Czey or Czech, totally defies me.
You need to study up on your Czech cuss words, and drink orders.I think you can figure out what this phrase is in Czech: “Bourbon prosím?” According to Google, WTF is “Co sakra?” in Czech. Makes sense to me.
I forgot you might need “Skotská na kamenech!” Scotch on the rocks!
I hate whisky so we’re all right then.
Taky nemám rád whisky. Aak! Aak! Aak! My BIL loves the stuff. I gave him an expensive bottle of whiskey for his birthday last night. I had to ask a cute saleswoman to help me find it. There are rows and rows of so many different whiskies in the liquor store that it’s mind-boggling to me.
Oh if you like it, the choices are amazing. Why I don’t is that when I was 5..yes…whisky has medicinal purposes, espesh a hot toddy– I was very unwell one night and and Dad, prob in his desperation to get to his work for 7 ..as in get up at 5 to do that, made up a toddy and said this will soon sort this out. I have never been so sick in my life and I can still remember the smell and taste of that toddy and I cannot even eat a whisky liqueur sweet to this day. Obvi he’d get the jail now!!! Mind you I guess it could be one way of stopping a potential drinker in their tracks!! If whisky was all there was to drink i wouldn’t.
That’s a great story. My sister made a pink cake when we were young. I ate and then got really sick that night. I could not look at pink without feeling nausiated for years.
Now that is some story too. There is just some things you can’t do again.
Your weave in words and pictures are amazing Tim!
Who knew a bobbed wire could look so cool! 😎
Thanks, Cindy.
Welcome Tim! ❣️
Excellent Poems to accompany your beautiful Images.. ❤
Thanks, Sue.
Sigh… Timkus and images brighten my days. Thank you, my friend!
You are welcome, Marina. I’m always pleased to brighten your day.
🙏😌
This post deeply touches my heart, Tim. Thank you. xo
You are welcome, Amy Rose. I’m so happy that you were touched by this post.
Beautiful my friend!
Thanks, Nancy.
Lovely haikus to go with the pictures, Timothy. I had to look for the crane ‘specks’.
Thanks, Roberta.
Beautiful!
Thanks, Inge.
So beautiful!
Thanks, Dawn.
Wonderful. The last poem is my fav. It’s just like that too.
Common for my thoughs to go asunder. Thanks, Jeff.
Me too. Most welcome, Tim.
It seems to me (a non TimKu expert) that you have gotten great at these. xx
You know I’m a pretty Kuku. Thanks, Resa.
Yes, I know you are Kuku, you Kuku Kukatoo! x
Søren be’s like a Kukatoo.
Yes…yes he is! xo