Monthly Archives: February 2014

Pillar of Light

Pillar of Light
In Santa Fe I would walk up the Sangre de Cristo mountains, up the old forest road that reaches to the ridge around 12,000 feet. Up past the aspen groves and into the high pines, where the winter wind whips the ridge with gales and heavy snows. It is an investment to make that trek.…
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Fire

Fire
More than a sighting or an encounter, it was a visitation from a massive meteor. We smelled it burn up before us. Green Apples Green apples were past ripening on the ground, the blackbird had bedded down in the reeds, and crickets had began their evening song. A point of light over the trees dimmed…
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Water

Water
Horseshoe Crabs In '94 I visited Cape May, New Jersey with my sister. Every year on the full moon of May great numbers of birds converge there for the eggs of horseshoe crabs. As the sun touches the western horizon and the full moon breaks over the east, terns and red knots go into a…
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