july

Dry waterfall, #111

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This year the waterfall below Ivan Carper pass is a trickle. On our hike last year at this time, it was raging, filling the valley with its roar. The mountain meadows, although not as green as previous years, are still a contrast to the brown fields of the Palouse we drove through on our way here. Walking up to Minam Lake in the Wallowas, over Ivan-Carper pass to the lake basin, and out following the glacial valley where the East Lostine River meanders, there are also fewer flowers. The plants and the blooms seemed re-energized from the monsoon rain moisture that had come through a day ago. In the rain and the sunshine that followed we walked by Rainer Gentian, St. John’s Wort, Pacific Onion, Pearly Everlasting, Common Yarrow, Sulphuric Flower, Aspen Fleabane, Dwarf Fireweed, and Indian Paintbrush. I’ve never been one to learn the names of things. Camping at Mirror Lake I woke up in the middle of the night to pee and while out had to use my star gazing app to find out the names of stars and constellations. I learned I was seeing Jupiter and Saturn watching Draco flying between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor and the Milky Way spilling into a rising crescent moon. A sad feeling came over me, not having not paid much attention before to the names of things. I’d spent much of my life walking too quickly passing flowers not giving them the respect and appreciation they deserve for the efforts they give, whether it is a hot and dry or cool and moist.

flow in the meadow
purple and green waterfalls
a dusty trail’s edge

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Trees – Summer Winds, #108

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clip! -a severed branch
within the camera‘s click
falling leaves wither

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in the new pole’s light
the meandering vine winds
in old tree’s shadow

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distant wild fire drift
willow branches hang in haze
western summer fog

Related Gallery: TREES

Black and White photograph of a dying tree in winter. Behind it the sun veiled in a bank of fog rolling across the Palouse hills
Color photograph of a tree in winter, in the Columbia Gorge in the town of Cascade Locks.
Color photograph of a flowering plum tree in front of a round building in Moscow Idaho.
Black and White photograph of a the top of a tree below puffy clouds in the spring in Pullman Washington
Color photograph of rows of maple trees after the've lost there autumn leaves.
Black and White tree in winter on the Palouse behind a barbed wire fence.
Color photograph of a tree on a strip of land surrounded by water standing above it reflection.
Color photography of a row of trees in the morning sun, their upper branches covered by moss
Black and white photograph of a tree growing out and above rocks.
Color photographs of a winter tree red in the morning sun under a clear blue sky.
Black and white photograph of a small tree that looks old growing out of rock on top of a hill.
Color photograph of pine trees a the top of Kamiak Butte on a cold covered in frost in the light of the low winter sun.
Black and White of a tree with light green leaves (the color of Sage).
Color photograph of a lone tree leafless with a few trunks cut off, on the side of the road. Bar Road, on the Palouse, WA.
Black and white photograph of blooming trees in the University of Idaho Arboretum
Color photograph of a tall old tree on a street corner in Walla Walla Washington near the Whitman college campus.

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