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Sunday Peace

Yakima Valley, WA


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Haiku Moment: heart of sunflower

heart of sunflower

beams joy to avian friends,

buzzes, and humans

heart of sunflower by Angie Quantrell

Yakima Valley


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Sunday Thoughts

Photo by Angie Quantrell

Yakima Valley


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Sunday Joy

Joy. My word of the year. I’ve been finding joy, conversations about joy, unexpected joy, memes and verses about joy, joyful thoughts, actual joy, songs about joy, poems, faces that express joy! What a joy!

I took this photo at night with my phone camera. The stars were so brilliant, but it was quite breezy and the sunflowers danced to the rhythm of the wind gusts. Still. The stars were gorgeous pinpricks of light, and the movement of the sunflowers so graceful. I love this photo.

Photo by Angie Quantrell, Yakima Valley, summer night


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Haiku Moment: paper bug

sunflower world dwarfs

ghostly guest, wrinkled yet strong

eerie paper bug

paper bug by Angie Quantrell

photo by Angie Quantrell

Yakima Valley, WA

P.S. Does anyone know what this paper bug is actually called? Because of the massive forelegs (for its size), I wondered if it was a relative of a praying mantis. But the rest of the body doesn’t seem to fit that category.


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Haiku Moment: summer hunger buzz

summer hunger buzz

seek, discover, pollinate

satiating feast

summer hunger buzz by Angie Quantrell

photo by Angie Quantrell

Yakima Valley


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Sunday Joy

Photo taken in my summer 2023 garden. Freebie sunflowers from last year!


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Haiku Moment: feast here

bees at work, seek host-

summer blooms shout, come! feast here

happy all around

feast here by Angie Quantrell

photo by Angie Quantrell, Yakima Valley


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Haiku Moment: sunflower summer

open for business

come one, buzz all, let’s gather-

sunflower summer

sunflower summer by Angie Quantrell

photo by Angie Quantrell, Yakima Valley


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Sunday Inspiration

photo by Angie Quantrell

Yakima Valley