Adopt a Rescue Rabbit month

July is Adopt a Rescue Rabbit Month! Many people buy bunnies as Easter gifts and then realise they don't know how to look after them properly, get bored of them and abandon them or give them to rescue centres in the summer. If you do want a bunny as a pet (and they make wonderful, wonderful pets) then research carefully how to look after them and adopt one from your nearest animal rescue centre. In Edinburgh that would be the SSPCA rehoming centre in Balerno or the East Lothian Bunny Haven.

To mark Adopt a Rescue Rabbit month I've added two rabbit themed items to the Crafty Green Poet Etsy shop, both featuring the haiga in the photo below, you can see them here and here.

I've also put together a rabbit themed Etsy Treasury (which showcases some of my favourite rabbit items from around Etsy and features items from Annette of The Leverets Nest, Diana of Qi Papers and  Donna of Lavender Rabbits.)

 As ever, red text contains hyperlinks that take you to other websites where you can find out more

Water of Leith haiku

blackcaps sing

high in the upper branches -

feathers flutter down.

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feathers (probably not blackcap feathers!) found at the Water of Leith on Monday.

Magpie haiga

a magpie preens

on a chimney pot -

a sudden breeze

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collage made from waste paper and found magpie feather

Haiku on the Water of Leith

As some readers will have seen, I've started a scrapbook of poetry collages. Well now I've started a second, specifically to include haiga (illustrated haiku) and other poetry (with or without collages) inspired by the Water of Leith. I'm aiming to write a haiku every time I patrol the river and to illustrate them where possible using my own sketches and found material from the Water of Leith walkways. The book itself (bought second hand) has a cover that could be designed for riverside walks!

The first haiga in the book is actually based on a haiku that was originally part of a haibun that I shared here, but the elm fruits in the haiga were collected from the Water of Leith yesterday.