8.21.2017

Solar Eclipse


Today was the full solar eclipse. 
Where I live, NW Montana, the eclipse was only partial. 
I did not have special glasses to watch the moon cloak the suns light, 
still I wanted to be outside under the veiling light. 

The light did change, 
a bit like the world looks with sunglasses on, less bright, a bit darker, a softness to life’s edges. 

I walked around the forest and meadow coming to our dirt road where the shadows of the alder trees danced on the ground.  


I noticed the shapes of the shadows!


it was the eclipse painted on the earth over and over again


so that is where I stopped to watch the veiling and unveiling of the sun


 as the minutes passed
the light crescent shapes grew larger
as the moon passed between the sun and us


the shadows were expressed a bit different
through the giant spruce tree


I was delighted and kissed with awe


endlessly nature offers magic for us to discover


the moon had nearly passed the sun above


last I looked
full circles of light danced on the road

the fullness of the sun's light 
has returned to our day

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8.10.2017

August in the Park


at the top of the mountains
flowers are still blooming


colors seem to be softening under the heat of summer's sun


greens
blues
and 
clear waters
sooth the heat of the days


clouds dance along the peaks
as though they are the mountain's breath


daydream beautiful

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