Metamorphosis

I'm taking a break from blogging for a bit. Wish I could say I was going on a vacation or doing something exciting, but I'm just going through some changes and stuff. My life is a bit murky at the moment, not all bad either, but definitely different. I'll be back when I get things sorted out and have time to concentrate on my photography again. I'll miss you guys and will try to stop in and comment from time to time. Have a wonderful summer!

These Fevered Days

These Fevered Days

These Fevered Days — to take them to the Forest

Where Waters cool around the mosses crawl —

And shade is all that devastates the stillness

Seems it sometimes this would be all —

~ Emily Dickinson

Goodnight Mojave

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

~ Edward Abbey

High Noon. Mojave, Barstow

No mystical origins are of this place,

fires that ravaged here in mighty Tongariro’s reign

left their mark in deeper scars on larger deserts;

but here in the span of an eye is seen

the minor ministry of Ruapehu's ancient pain.

The basin of this desert, charred and burled,

is a settling pan; frightful scenes

were moulded out of gobs of molten rock,

plastered out of time by mud eruptions,

frozen; wind and water-blasted,

etched by element and circumstance beyond design,

sculpted in the wrath of time.

~ From Rangipo Desert by Ivan Donn Carswell