Last Day

Merry X-mas

Melt

First Day

Happy Winter Solstice

Walking Dots

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wild Turkey (Hen and Chicks) from Birds of America by John James Audubon, Etching, 1827-38

The Day After the Dead

Towards Home

High Country Autumn

Happy First Day of Fall

Eighteen Ways of Articulating a Buffalo: #5

Praise

It is the nature of stone

to be satisfied.

It is the nature of water

to want to be somewhere else.

Everywhere we look:

the sweet guttural swill of the water

tumbling.

Everywhere we look:

the stone, basking in the sun,

or offering itself

to the golden lichen.

It is our nature not only to see

that the world is beautiful

but to stand in the dark, under the stars,

or at noon, in the rainfall of light,

frenzied,

wringing our hands,

half-mad, saying over and over:

what does it mean, that the the world is beautiful - 

what does it mean?

   -Mary Oliver

    The Leaf and the Cloud

Six Poppies

Prickly Poppy (wildflower)

White Linen Poppy

Wind Poppy

Mission Bells Poppy

Orange Poppy

American Legion Poppy

Sphinx

Buena Vista Birthday

Mount Yale

Mountain Thistle

Alpine Phlox

Buena Vista Evening

Moss Campion

Columbine and the Collegiate Range

 Cottonwood Pass