I want to thank all of those in our community who sympathized with my two publishing issues last week. This week has been much better, as I’ve returned to writing about one of my passions – pollinators! It is Pollinator Week, and I’ve written three pieces on Medium about these essential insects. I’ll attach friend links at the end.
My focus on pollinators has both distracted me and redirected my focus for writing. Many of you supported my return to joy and writing about what I love. I realized while writing an article last night on Citizen Science that I’ve been reporting on monarch butterflies for twenty years! My first report was to Journey North in early May 2006.
Last year, I became a pollinator steward by taking a continuing education course through Pollinator Partnership. It involved a 12-week course and then an action – I chose to put in a native garden bed and write about it. That bed is now in its third growing season and looks fabulous.
I had the time to write a couple of haiku this week:
Blue-eyed grass greets me
© draft, Carol Labuzzetta, 2026
Not with a hello or wave
Just quiet presence
Making ice cream now Machine churns loudly, humming Triple berry love © Carol Labuzzetta, 2026
This was meant to be my Poetry Friday post last week. But I am still working out kinks in the new platform and lost most of my post. Therefore, I just waited until I had more time to work on it. I tend to overschedule myself. Today was that day.
Here are a few links to Medium articles from Pollinator Week.
Stop by this Friday for my Poetry Friday blog. Thanks.