Aspens
Aspen trees grow throughout the US West, usually at altitudes of 5000 feet or more. I grew up among the aspens that grew all around our...
Mi Consuegra
Her name is Graciela, a beautiful name, but everyone calls her Chela. When my daughter married her son she became my "consuegra" and I...
Sunshine and Shadow, Darkness and Light
When we look at a reflection we are seeing, not a replica, but a mirror image. In our lives, in our families, in our communities we live...
I am a Tree
Over my lifetime I have embraced many identities--only child, big sister, student, artist, teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, friend. As...
Something is Broken
Disunity. There's something to ponder! When the theme was announced my internal response went directly to the current state of things...
Broken
Several days ago this happened in my living room. My ceramic cat was accidentally knocked off the table where she resides and her front...
Time: No Day but Today
It seems fitting to me that we are pondering "Time" just now as we move from one year to the next. I looked in the mirror on the first...
November Rain in the Wetlands
My friend and I walk in the morning in the wetlands. It is a world of water and the life that is drawn to the wetland. The beavers have...
When the lights come on and the stars come out...
"Night" is my theme, the one I had the pleasure of proposing to the group, so you might suppose that I would have had an idea of what I...
"Night": prompt #7
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." -Vincent Van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night, Vincent Van...
