Seen in passing

Things Laura saw:

In the garden.

In the side yard, on the way to the compost pile.

Things I saw:

I cannot remember the last lady bug;

Possibly fifteen or twenty years ago.

They have been replaced by those nasty, non-indigenous

yellow Asian beetles.

But there she was, on a plant we cannot identify, yet,

that we rescued and replanted last spring.

A blossom on the rosemary.

In the middle of October.

A moth on the garage wall.

A dragon fly, hoping to warm its wings enough to fly.

Not like the one I chased around the garden last summer

and couldn't catch.

A wooly bear caterpillar. To the light, grasshopper, to the light!

Probably more interested in getting under the leaves.

We had several dead branches cut from the oak tree.

A piece of lichen on a piece of bark

knocked from a falling branch.

Library patrons look and smile as I take these sidewalk pictures.

There are oak leaves and there are dyed images of oak leaves.