DESERT ALIVE!

 Sandia mountain and her wild flowers

we had a wet late winter in the mountain...

In the mountain

Yellow chrysanthemums and green bamboo,

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!

Paegun

New Mexico wild poppy

giant desert 4 o'clock

arrow grasses greening up

verbena with cholla cactus

delicious fragrance from
 the New Mexico mock orange

green view from spiral mesa

apache plume

penstemon

grass seed head

magical mountain sunrise

Sandia Mountain Dawn 

Foothill thrill today

 

Spring Garden Views

                                                                  Japanese garden, Albuquerque bio park 

                                                                                        privacy garden

                                                                     view of the privacy garden from the bedroom
 

May show in the ACOG

Pat Colville

acrylic drawings from the Jasper Mountain Li/Po series

Questions and Answers on the Mountain

They ask me where's the sense

on Jasper mountains 

I laugh and don't reply;

in hearts own grief;

Peach petals float their streams

away in secret

To other skies and earths

than those of mortals.

-Li Po

 

Springtime in the Rockies

early morning walks

Inhale, exhale

Forward, back

Living, dying:

Arrows, let flown each to each

Meet midway and slice

The void in aimless flight-

thus I return to the source.

-Gesshu Soko 1.10.1696

 

                                                                  April full moon setting

Slipped, tumbled,
Mountain is quiet and alone.

Santoka Taneda

 

Morning Mountain Poetry

Winter mountain

Predawn photo taken of our mountain by an early morning
mountain walking friend, Rondi.

January's full Wolf moon setting

 

Setting full MarchWorm moon