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| View from my room in Jackson, WY |
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| This is where I live. the door is open. |
Looking up from my room, I see the ski slopes of Snow King. The lift ascends from near the middle of Jackson,
Wyoming. It’s not running now, but plenty
of snow will arrive most any day now and the winter crowd will arrive.
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| Looking down into Jackson Hole |
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| Snow King Ski Atrea |
I can walk up a trail to the top from which I can see the
Snake River Valley, better known as Jackson Hole, beyond the city of
Jackson
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| Flat Creek in Jackson |
Long Times to Look
Sharon Hawley
The air has a sweet burn of frost
sun slides above a cloudbank
sharp, keen, and
freshly bright
a silence I can hear and feel
a mystique close to
religion
we are very young and callow in a world
we are very young and callow in a world
old when we came
into it
looking into things not yet understood
there’s a commonality in all these things
Wise and authentic words Sharon. Beautiful. I can hear the aspens applauding. x Lois
ReplyDeleteThey do applaud, Lois, with their trembling leaves, perhaps with a bit of fear, their lives are nearly done. Good to see you here.
DeleteLike everyday, your photos are amazing and almost overwhelming. So glad you are sharing these experiences with me, because these are places I can't go to anymore. Mary
ReplyDeleteMary, we will do some adventures on the badminton court aslo. thanks for joining here.
DeleteAlways beautiful pictures (but too small to romp around in). Did you go to the Laurance Rockfeller Center? He was the environmentalist of the family. Here's a forest poem.
ReplyDeleteAt dusk deer meet
in deep pines, content
to mingle idly, ruminate grass,
but delicately intent
mindful of someone shooting
far ahead,
they pause to look, mouths agape
tasting that cold bitter air.
Lee Collins
Lee, both of the Rockefeller visitors centers are closed as of mid-September. By now, in mid October, everything in Teton Park is closed except for one visitors Center.
DeleteHunters are allowed to shoot deer and elk starting about now. I am advised to wear orange while hiking. So your poem is very timely. Thanks for writing it. Like your others, I would like to use it somewhere, either on the blog or in a talk or both.
"The air has a sweet burn of frost"
ReplyDeletewell put and understood within this Canadian's experiential places
Yes, it is much colder than when I came here almost 3 weeks ago. But I am leaving soon, back to where there will be no sweet burn of frost, Or maybe there will be with El Nino coming.
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