Little Landscape at Bear Lake

by ruralpearl | Jul 29, 2012 | Inspiration, Photos

Along the trail around Bear Lake, RMNP, Colorado, 2012.

“You air that serves me with breath to speak!
You objects that call from diffusion my meanings, and give them shape!
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
I think you are latent with unseen existences—you are so dear to me.”
-Walt Whitman, from Song of the Open Road

Pine Cone

by ruralpearl | Jul 27, 2012 | Inspiration, Photos

Pine cone at the Alluvial Fan, Rocky Mountain National Park, 2012.

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

Textures

by ruralpearl | Jul 26, 2012 | Inspiration, Photos

Textures by William Stafford

1.
The dwell of a sound for a while
will sometimes diminish all else
and a whole forest lie down at night
for hearing the moon, where the first
tick and its tock are still waiting
for what time it is.

2.
Morning color opens its eyes
where it slept in the mountains.
Oh, it’s afraid! This might be
the day when white comes all the way
back from the sky where it went
when color first came.

3.
And fur—of all presence it is
the most, a million touches
at once, to assure, reassure,
instruct our lives, like this:—
Be here so well that even
one time is enough.