Springtime in the Rockies

In the mountain

Yellow chrysanthemums and green bamboos,

they don't belong to others.

Bright moon and clear breeze

are not for the sphere of the senses.

They're all treasures

of my house -

Fetch them home freely

use them, get to know them!

Paegan

from Zen Poems

Mock orange 

Aster

coming down the mountain

 

Books

It is when we are near the end of a book that we

enjoy it.

Guests whom we anxiously expect often fail to come.

So the world runs always contrary to our wishes.

How rarely in a hundred years do we open our hearts!

Chen Shidao

from

Zen Poems

Yellow spring!!
Lady Banks roses

 

...Cold mountain is nothing but clouds

secluded and free of dust

a hermit owns a fusion of straw

the moon is his lone lamp

his bed of stone overlooks a pool

his neighbors are tigers and deer

preferring the joys of solitude 

he remains a man beyond form...

from the collect songs of

COLD MOUNTAIN

This morning's walk in the Placitas Open Space

this morning's walk in the Placitas Open Space