Lazy Saturday afternoon
Opening a bottle of pinot noir
Listening to opera
Chopping garlic
Fresh garden basil, oregano, and rosemary
Mushrooms, onions, and peppers
Vine ripe home-grown tomatoes
Ground sirloin
Sausage
Simmering
Hour after hour
Occasionally
I stir the pot
Contentment
Making homemade spaghetti sauce
Hot sand burns my feet
Eating cold watermelon
Watching seagulls fly
Homemade vegetable soup
French bread in the oven
All-day reading books
Sushi sake beer
Home together for New Year
Fifties easier
Craps was the game he played
Once a month
Took a round trip flight
Lauderdale to Nassau
Carried his cash in an old bag
Stood most of the night
At the table
Sometimes won
Sometimes lost
His demeanor
Always stable
Just a way to unwind
The game
Cleared his mind
Sweet corn on the cob
Boiled
Topped with butter and salt
Ice cold lemonade
Sitting under ficus tree
Lazy day
In the shade
Snowshoes beef jerky
Don’t need lower 48
Free will solitude
Starting motorbike
Morning ride along A1A
Sea air soothes me
Winter cold snap
Honeybell oranges soon ripe
Gastronomic delight
Note to readers: Poem refers to Florida winter gardening. Just a bit of cold gives citrus a kick of extra sweetness.
Tropical storm gone
Angry Atlantic Ocean
Snatching my surfboard
Bought old pickup truck
Hitch up house on wheels
Let’s see America
Nippy morning
Fly fishing for rainbow trout
River moving slowly
Stack of unread books
Winter storm lighting fireplace
Cozy bookworm
Garden vegetables
Mixed with herbs in slow cooker
Love is in the home
Drinking hot chocolate
Watching snow fall on rock garden
No rush to leave
Lake Okeechobee
Sitting with cane pole
Catching panfish
Wearing straw hat
Smoking pipe
Faraway
From the hype
Mahi Mahi
Spare ribs
Jumbo shrimp
Spiny lobster tails
Hushpuppies
Buttered corn on the cob
Special coleslaw recipe
Bucket of rice
Topped with Cajun hot sauce
Case of ice cold beer
Hot Florida summer sun
Barbeque
All weekend long
