Freshness Deep - near Drummond, Montana

“And for all this, nature is never spent;

   There lives the dearest freshness deep down things...” - from God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Spring Snowcaps - Bitterroot Valley, Montana

“... it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.”
—from Praying by Mary Oliver (1935-2019)