dreamlike blue sky
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cottonwoods in fall colors
gift of a starburst
My Ride Home
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Look with open eyes
“Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.”
Jane Hirshfield, The Heart of HaikuI was surprised to see the dusting of snow and fog this morning. So I took the long-cut to the coffee shop via Stuart Street to visit the cottonwood tree at the Fisher Nature Area Trail. If you look closely you will see a red tailed hawk in the top of the cottonwood. Fog has burned off as blue sky and sunshine make their appearance. Have a wonderful Saturday and look with open eyes!
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Time in Nature
From a weekend walk at Reservoir Ridge Natural Area “Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.”
Bill PlotkinIt is a desire of mine to spend more time in nature. Hopefully, you already knew that. It is now obvious to me how deep these roots of solitude with and in nature have always been present. There is an awareness, also, that the more time I spend in the natural world, the more I desire to be there. My condo of bricks and sticks is not where I want to spend my life. It has provided a place of comfort but at a price. For many the house is all they need and want. Our culture stresses that. I’m not one of them. There is a desire to blossom. Have a great day and wonderful week!
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Sprinkling of Hearts
A sprinkling of hearts to cheer the heart I found these two hearts in the trunk of a large cottonwood tree along Fisher Nature Area a couple days ago. Since then I have found several others. I’m not sure but I think it is peoples way of saying thanks to first responders and front line health workers. Or, just passing along some love.
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I’m ready now…
A favorite cottonwood tree along FIsher Nature area leading to Rowland Moore Park. I often find Red-tailed hawks perched in it. I have been pretty good about taking my camera for daily walks during this stay-at-home order. Even got in the walks the past two days when it was snowing and cold, admittedly shorter. And the weather forecasters are telling us more snow, 3-8 inches, by Thursday. Enough already. Bring on spring, rain, thunderstorms, flowers, weeds and sunny walks. I’m ready now!
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Notes from this mornings walk…
Cottonwood leaf from this morning’s walk Walked the dirt path at the Fisher Nature Area this morning
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I wanted to have my feet touch Mother Earth, not concrete.
Heard Blue Jays chasing one another with their raucous calls,
unintelligible gibberish, sounds angry. We don’t need that.
And, the chickadees with their simple “fee-bee” calls,
one heard over here, then one over there, social distancing?
A woodpecker drumming on some distant tree
They pause, listening for insects, then drum on.
Can’t miss the two joggers in their bright colored running gear,
then meet half dozen dogs walking their humans, on a leash.
With overcast skies, patches of blue and diffused light, and one
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A call to creative work…
Sunset along Fisher Nature Area “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work,
who felt their own creative power restive and uprising,
and gave to it neither power nor time.” -
Snow is in the forecast
Backlit grass on my walk along Fisher Nature Area “Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.”
Susan SontagInteresting to note that she wrote this back in 1973.
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Fisher Nature Trail
“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.”
This is the trailhead that leads into Rowland Moore Park.
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Yes, it’s May in Colorado
Snow was falling,
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so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.Awoke to this pretty scene. A reminder that it’s still spring and I live in Colorado. It is a wet and heavy snow with plenty of moisture, making farmers happy campers. Most of the trees have their leaves on so many of the branches on the smaller trees are under the stress of its weight. It is not cold so I’m good with it. This is at the trailhead to Fisher Natural Area along West Stuart.
