Idaho Sunset

To fling my arms wide

In some place of the sun,

To whirl and to dance

Till the white day is done.

-Langston Hughes

August 2009, Caldwell ID

Idaho Skyscape

There is something about that wide open Idaho sky. I cannot get enough of it.


July 2009, Caldwell ID

Idaho Flora

"There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass."
-A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton


August 2008, Caldwell ID

Parkland Sunset

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile, the world goes on.
-Mary Oliver

Spring 2009, Parkland WA

Lake Ingalls Trail

Branches are bare with a pulse underneath
Flowering slowly inside
Your hands are warm and my body is wide
To hold all the promise of blue-velvet dark and stars
All it takes is a little faith and a lot of heart
Sweetheart
-The Weepies


October 2009, Alpine Lakes Wilderness WA

Cape Disappointment

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
-Mary Oliver

January 2008, Cape Disappointment WA