Purple Lupine

Purple Lupine and Bee

Anticipating

I wait until late winter 

for Lupine to bloom.

© Joy Krauthammer 

2.16.2015

Haiku

Inspired early

a single blossom bloomed.

I’m in love with spring.

© Joy Krauthammer 

2.18.2016

Haiku

© Joy Krauthammer

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer 

© Joy Krauthammer 

I Awake the Dawn

''I will awake the dawn...’' - King David (Shulchan Aruch) 

“Sheyeha Hu Meorer HaShachar”

— הוא מעורר השחר  שיהא 

I Awake the Dawn

Early each morning before dawn, joyously

 I again begin my day in wonder, like a child, 

at the edge of the cliff, closest to the horizon and the rising sun. 

For an hour today, from 5:30am, 

with camera in my hands, 

I am blown over again and again

 by the powerful gusts of wind cleaning the sky

 and distant mountains, 

and I smile 

in the radiance of G*d’s colorful surprises.

May your day be bright.

Love and blesSings, 

Joy Krauthammer ©  11.18.2014

Sunrise Sunstar

Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer  11.18.2014

© Joy Krauthammer 

Garden of Joy

11.17.2014

Sunrise Sunstar 

Garden of Joy

© Joy Krauthammer   11.19.2014

Sunrise

Garden of Joy 

© Joy Krauthammer   11.17.2014