Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

1.11.2020

Winter Crystals


morning treasures
 

formed in the cold of night
 

they call my creek home
 

in their short lived life
 

often the crystals evaporate, take flight, disappear throughout the day
even though the temperature is below freezing
so interesting


moon shadows on the snow
our recent full moon

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3.12.2012

The Sun Came Out to Play

perhaps you remember my autumn day 
at this very location: click here to view


blue skies
aquamarine waters
circles of land cloaked in winters fading snow


textures reveal 
light and shadow
line between 
terra and blue yonder a visual delight


do you know who made these tracks?
I would love to hear your thoughts

maybe river otter?

and 

I went to the bear tree, do you remember? 
this next photo is one from that post: here


well
last autumn
mama and one of the two cubs returned

mama climbed the tree and little one gave up the climb half way up
cub did that twice and is reported to have stayed on the earth
for two days while mama was in the den way up at the top

then....
the cub made it up
tucked in for the season....

a wind storm came 
howling mighty
the rotten Cottonwood Tree fell to the earth
oh my
no one found the bears on the earth
so we envision they wandered off

this is what i found:

the tree fallen
looked so much smaller than it did from afar
with bears in its limbs

I looked at claw marks from them climbing the tree


the marks were plenty up and down the tree

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I sat in the den
and felt what it might have been like
to live in a tree

this was their den
a home for three....

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2.17.2012

Mountain Lion and Elk


headed into the forest and through the meadow on skis
day a blend of subtle grays greens and white
following the tracks of a lone coyote
a song of twitter tweet 
tiny birds

then a splash of movement and rich browns


a tribe of elk
they looked at me
I at them

they turned and trotted through the trees

continuing on
a fresh trail of a lone mountain lion 



I could not help but follow



a month or so ago
  I found a lion had walked in my tracks


now I follow the lion

somehow I feel an affinity to these quiet winter woods
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the lion tracks were between 3.5 inches and 4"

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4.28.2008

Pink and Turquoise

I love this picture. It looks more like a painting to me, than the photograph that it is. Pink and turquoise rocks, hopping bird in similar colors: