As we drive down the long,
lonely, thin road…
My gaze transfixed on the horizon.
Eyes gazing at all before me
The golds of the aspen
The blood orange of alder
The reds of the fireweed
Accented against the tall green conifers
Making a patchwork quilt of the mountain sides.
The beauty is palpable
My heart leaps with joy
My mind solidly fixed in the emptiness of this vast land
The turquoise and aqua green braids of water
Glacier milk
Green rivers
Cool clear streams
Shimmering lakes
The pulsing life blood…water.
The glaciers hold still and fast to the craggy folds
Slowly receding back into the hollow canyons.
The icy blue fingers relenquishing their grip.
Water cascading down
Wisps of white showers
Pooling and spilling over the deep crevasses cut into solid stone.
The roar deafening.
A cahcaufony of sounds
The shrill chatters of the squirrel
Titter of the titmouse
Squawk of grey jays
Call of the raven
Piercing cry of the eagle
Whisper of the wind
Rush of the stream.
The sun…
streaming down from the most stunning blue sky.
Warming
Inviting
Soothing
Clouds hanging free
Heavy black
Wispy white
Outlined in gold and chartreuse as the sun exits and night slips in behind.
Hews of purple
blue and green
paint the sky
A vast inky black sky
awash with stars
Galaxies
Nebulas
Planets
Endlessness.
I drift off to sleep
Part of this natural world
Part of the intricacy of life
Two Travelin' Chicas... 