20 December 2014
19 December 2014
Into the Fog - Missoula, Montana
"...The
reveries of ruins asked: “Will no
one
come?” The skeletons of trees inquired:
“And
who are you, forever on the go?”..."
18 December 2014
Winter Courage - Missoula, Montana
"Get a bicycle.
You will certainly not regret it.
If you live."
– Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), US writer and humorist (1835-1910)
Interestingly enough, this particular bicycle was parked outside that venerable Missoula beverage establishment, Charlie B's.
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17 December 2014
Foggy Winter Weeds - Missoula, Montana
“What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
16 December 2014
December Charms - Missoula, Montana
To epitaphs scrawled on a gift
Of moment-gold we cannot hold
For Time is insistent and bold
…and strips the bud that broke and thrilled
The limb where spring and summer spilled
To winds of phantom, freight-like train
That brings December once again
It rumbles from wide open skies
And showers silver sparkle-sighs
To eventide once dull and brown
December is November’s crown"
Ponder Janet's full poem here - your soul will thank you.
15 December 2014
Lichen The Neighborhood - Missoula, Montana
"There are often inquiries about cultivating lichens...Alas, there's no reliable way
anyone has found to keep lichens going once they've been
relocated... We can't tame lichens; as Irwin Brodo has
said, in Lichens of North America, "...lichens are the
essence of wildness." " - Stephen Sharnoff, in his essay 'Lichens and Oaks: A Deep Partnership'
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14 December 2014
Naked Tree Thought - Missoula, Montana
"The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt."
- D. H. Lawrence, Winter in the Boulevard, 1916
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