Reach For The Sky

Alpine ascent amid canyon spiral to the clouds...

After Winter Rains

Green carpets natural desert rock garden...

Reality

Leaves a lot to the imagination...

Perceptions In The Natural World

Life is not always the way it appears...

Wagon Trail

Surveying vast valley with Saguaros as guideposts...

Oncoming Train

Perception of danger is in frame of reference...

Winter Leavings

Organic proem of movement to spring...

Ashes Of Phoenix

Real Estate Boomtown going up in smoke...

Beware of market prophets in sheep's clothing, they're wolves.

Desert Winter Afternoon

Inca dove keeping watchful eye over nest...

Granite Dells

Postcard from the past circa 1974...

We two siblings sat among big rocks
staring, thinking, wondering
having one of those silent talks...

Cross-legged our young life at crosswalk
gazing, reflecting, pondering
what were soul marks of chalk...

Unexpectedly we had lost paternal building block
furrowing, growing, thundering
heads compelled to take stock...

After a short while we packed up eyeshades
knapsacks, water bottles and day hiked out
to years layered upon decades,
like boulders enduring without doubt
soon forgetting the fragility that pervades,
every breath taken could still phaseout.

I sit alone now surrounded by same rocks
contemplating, reasoning, pardoning
mortal life for being a ticking clock.