closed
after a week of snow
spring flowers
noontime unraveling
out of the office
scattered clouds
today it’s
snow and a daffodil
dancing!
April 10 – 15th, #172
spring
April 12th, #171
dusting the basin
a sprinkling of morning snow
trimming my beard -snip!
March Gallery:
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April 1st-10th, #170
bare branches
leaning over the waves
early spring shade
fell with snowmelt?
toppled by spring winds?
somewhere -what age?
vibration mode
a quiver in the Lenten Rose
buzzing bees!
spring colors
wrapped
in a blanket
April 6th, #169
swipe of her brush
ceiling paint -droplets of moonlight
spring rain
March 31st, #168
I enter my saved location (work) in Google Maps. It lets me know it will be a twenty-two minute drive. Google is unaware I intend to avoid the highway and take the airport loop, adding a few more minutes.
Before leaving I turn on the radio and sync my phone. What playlist today? Reggae, Rock (70’s), Classical Indian music, Blues, Baroque? Or maybe skip the music app altogether and try a station’s view of the morning news?
I go with Classical Indian Music.
25…35…45…50 mph
her many droplets
burn into the mountain
morning fog
I return to the highway. Drivers wrap around me like an itchy, but warm wool blanket.
50…45…35…25 mph
Google Maps lets me know I’ve arrived at my destination (work).
Right on time.
I turn the key.
flowering
over a babbling brook
without a quiver
March 29th, #167
rushing out the door
before the day’s winds -I pause
with the daffodil
March 21st, #166
grasses opened hands
feathered light of a crescent
splash of morning dew
March 18th, #165
cleansing the water dish
an owl’s hoot -the ripples spread
a drop of moonlight
the falling spring rain
up and down the iris stems
the falling spring rain
autumn tree pedals
winter-summer stems of grass
spring -flower’s full bloom!
Water falls, #103
1.0
Melissa and I recently traveled to the Oregon Coast to spend a week with family at Tierra Del Mar (which in English translates to Land of the Ocean). The first night we stayed in Biggs Junction. On day two we stopped for a hike in the Columbia River Gorge. We hiked a five mile loop visiting many waterfalls and parts of the 2017 Eagle Creek fire.
I had driven through the Gorge on I-84 a few times since the fire. However, it was not until this trip on our drive home (we took Washington State Highway 14 which follows the north side of the Columbia River) that I was able to take in the immensity of the fire.
I wondered if I behave this way toward our natural resources and climate change? I hike (drive) in water daily: washing my face, making tea, cooking, showering, watering the garden. I use water, but do I see the immensity of my use? Do I realize how precious water is to my physical existence, allowing me to think, feel, and love?
I recall a Thich Nhat Hanh gatha I first noticed in Spanish. I know a few Spanish words and in this writing, agua, Tierra, and gratitud, caught my attention. I found the gatha later in Thich Nhat Hanh’s book, peace is every breath: a practice for our busy lives:
“Water Flows from high mountain sources.
Water runs deep in the Earth.
Miraculously, water comes to us.
I am filled with gratitude.” [1]
2.
Spilling in my hands
water’s sparkling gemstones
I splash sleepy eyes
In a mist of blue
above green waves of sea-foam
charred water falls
3.
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[1] – Thich Nhat Hanh, peace is every breath, (HarperOne; Reprint Kindle edition, 2011), pg. 12
Canyon View Drive, #102
We three turn and look…
Who’s the one behind the fence?
I stare and wonder