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Tag Archives: backyard gardens
Poetry Friday–Summer Garden Treasures, and more “Things We Feel”
Happy Poetry Friday! This week I’m sharing some treasures from my backyard garden… ZUCCHINI ODE(To A Favorite Vegie!) Zucchini how’d you grow like that? Curving like a crescent moon. Maybe you came from up above from a seed dropped by … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Poetry Books, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, "Things We Feel", Art, backyard gardens, haiku, Janet Wong, Michelle Kogan, Molly Hogan, nature, poem, poems, poetry, Pomelo Books, reflections, Sylvia Vardell, Writing, Zucchini
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Poetry Friday–Window Bays
Happy Poetry Friday! I’ve had a week off between my Spring and Summer Teaching. So, morning Light and I played with words, and momentarily camouflaged the ever present din that seems to wrap around us… I woke with a poem … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Holidays, Home, Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged artist, backyard gardens, bees, Berries, birds, Birdsongs, Birthday Cards, Buffy Silverman, Carol Varsalona, Etsy Shop, Fairies, haiku, June Berries Bee & Fairy B-Day Card, Michelle Kogan, Michelle Kogan Fine Art Etsy Shop, MIlkweed, Monarchs, nature, Oil Painting, Plein Air, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, spring, strawberries, summer, teaching, Window Bays, WIP
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Poetry Friday–Apples, Wrens, and Fall…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m sharing a poem and WIP watercolor painting. I don’t have a title yet for the poem, it’s very new… Follow nature let her lead you into Falls harvest with abundant apples mimicking earth’s ever-turning roundness. Apples … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Haiku, Home, Nature, Painting, Pencil Drawing, poetry, Writing
Tagged Apple orchards, Apples, Apples and Wren watercolor, Art, backyard gardens, calm breaths, Caro Labuzzetta, haiku, Michelle Kogan, nature, nature lovers, Painting, poem, poems, poetry, reflections, The Apples in My Orchard, Watercolor, Wrens, Writing
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Poetry Friday–Hummingbird and Cucumbers…
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m immersed in my garden and its visitors. Enjoy the romp round my green-filled grounds… SUMMER GRATITUDE I missed hummingbird once, then twicewith my Oh! And off she flew… At 7:00ish as sun slackened, I sat waiting— … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, poetry, Writing
Tagged #Poetry Friday, A(nother) Year of Reading, Baby Cuke, Backyard cucumbers, backyard gardens, Cucumber Vines, cucumbers, Gratitude, Growing, hummingbirds, Mary Lee Hahn, Michelle Kogan, nature, Reaching up, sky, summer, vegetable gardens, VInes
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Poetry Friday–Summer Poem Swap & Zinnias for #INKTOBER
falls fading garden bursts zinnia’s bedazzling blooms © 2020 Michelle Kogan Happy Poetry Friday, Happy Fall and Happy Inktober! I’m taking a break from the din of our world to share with you a summer poem swap from Ruth Hersey, … Continue reading
#Poetry Friday–Exhibit and Milkweed Poem
Happy Poetry Friday! I’m happy to share with you my painting and Summer Milkweed poem that will be included in the exhibit: Plant Medicine: Multi-Speciies Wellness in a Global City Opening reception Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 5:30 pm running … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Painting, Plein Air Art, Poem, Writing
Tagged "Plant Medicine: Multi-Speciies Wellness in a Global City", "SUMMER MILKWEED", Art, backyard gardens, bees, butterflies, Community Gardens, earth, environment, exhibits, family, Flowers, friends, Heidi Mordhorst, Humanity, Michelle Kogan, MIlkweed, Monarchs, Museum of Surgical Science, nature, Oil Painting, poems, poetry, Poetry Friday, pollinating, Pollinators, Ponder, reflections, spirit, sun, Truth, Waiting, Women
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#Inktober day 5 & okra haiku
OKRA PATIENCE okra we waited together patiently all summer long … © 2017 Michelle Kogan
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Home, Nature, pen sketch, Plein Air Art, Poem, Sketchbooks, Writing
Tagged #inktober, #Inktober2017, Art, backyard gardens, gardens, Haiku, Michelle Kogan, Okra, patience, pen, poem, poetry, sketchbooks, wings, Writing
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Garden Tanka and Pics
Some pics from my garden to accompany a Garden Tanka… August bounty brings multicolored garden treasures. Now, quickly capture them before the critters begin their feast! © Michelle Kogan 8-7-2015
Posted in Children's Illustration & Writing, Nature, Nature photos, Poem, Writing
Tagged backyard, backyard gardens, cucumbers, gardens, Michelle Kogan, peppers, poetry, sunflowers, Tanka, vegetables, writing
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Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 