Standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, on the way to New Mexico
We had a near-wilderness setting for two outdoor presentations in New Mexico. I felt almost as if we were sitting beside a glacier-carved lake high in the Wind River Mountains presenting a wilderness experience while being in one. Wild turkeys and mule deer often visit this place, and the night sky was almost as full of stars as it was at Diamond Lake in the presentation.
Mule deer visit here with their long ears and friendly eyes
Two of us hiked into Holy Ghost Creek where, due to high elevation, aspen trees were already displaying their yellow autumn beauty.
Aspen Leaves in Fall
Michael Angerman has prepared a map for this afterglow trip at Google Map Link Pecos Trip Autumn 2020
Aspen Leaves in Fall
They applaud
with trembling hands
perhaps with a bit of fear
their lives nearly done
beauty is not theirs alone
but comes with sunlight
maker with made
I wait as clouds move
to cast a sunbeam
on waiting trees
they awaken
with unearned brilliance
among unlit peers
not achieving
enlightenment
on their own
They applaud
with trembling hands
perhaps with a bit of fear
their lives nearly done
beauty is not theirs alone
but comes with sunlight
maker with made
to cast a sunbeam
on waiting trees
with unearned brilliance
among unlit peers
enlightenment
on their own
Michael Angerman has prepared a map for this afterglow trip at Google Map Link Pecos Trip Autumn 2020
His
map for the Wind River Mountains trip is
at
Michael's Map
As usual you posted wonderful photographs of your voyages.
ReplyDeleteMy treks are more in my imagination. I fabricated/created/assemble some 30 ships designed after the famous galleons of yesterday. They are made of cans of sardines, beer and plastic soda bottles with chopsticks for masts and sail riggings made of vegetable netting with cherry and olive pits. Some of them became famous through publications of poetry and art. That's how an 80 year old man validates his life... lol
Alex, I enjoy your comments on my adventures and your art. How can I see these galleons of yesterday and olive pits? It might validate my life if these talks of mine were so famous. I beg your assistance.
DeleteLove your Aspen Leaves in Fall, Sharon and the way you can see their movements as both applause and shivers. Both feel very true and in tune with all that is around them... and all of us. Thank you for your gracious sharing of adventures, we catch the light of them through clouds
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wild turkey and mule deer
at her open air show
Sounds like a wild and wonderful time.
I know you will find the right trails to break for us!
Looking forward to more adventures whenever possible.
Love Kathabela
Kathabela, I know you love aspens and surely remember the ones above Santa Fe, shimmering for you as you learned to make another kind of beauty with jewelry. Times change, aspen leaves fall, but they come again, reborn, soldered and curved into new shapes, shivering with new winds. New adventures await us both.
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