Gray Morning Light

This Morning it snowed
For the first time
Everything powdered with white

I’ll pull you close
Against the winter chill

And kiss your face
In the gray morning light

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Many people have made blog posts this week relating to cold weather. It doesn't snow at all where I live, so I had to pretend for this poem to make any sense as I wrote it. It's not much, but I'm in a snowy mood...

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A Mad Dog Chases Himself

A cold wind blows

A lone wolf howls

Somewhere in the woods

A mad dog chases himself

Snapping at his own bloody haunches

You approach through the fog

Alone and lost

Trying to find the trail again

Before full dark falls upon you

Aware only of the sound of your boots

Crunching through the snow

Your frantic breath hangs in the air

Like a frozen scream


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Sequoia 02

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Yeah, we were a little bit crazy climbing out onto that rock. It wasn't very slippery, but there was nowhere soft to land.  We were on an established high country trail, but we couldn't see it because of the snow.  We also hadn't seen another human in quite a while. I was just a tiny bit worried.  It wasn't supposed to snow at all and we really didn't have the gear for it.

I entered this photo in a contest and I must admit, I was a little surprised when it didn't win. I'd love to find Christmas cards with this on it.  If  you enlarge it, the frozen fog and trees in the background are pretty amazing.

Sequoia National Park 01

importing from defunct photography blog

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There wasn't supposed to be any snow when we got here, but there was an unexpected snow storm in the middle of the night. I was so happy to see that no one had touched the snow on top of this fence. Whoever came next wouldn't be so lucky, because I took a big bite out of the snow on the top rail...

This would have been a choice photo if the junk in the lower right hand corner wasn't there.

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Point Loma and The Road to Sequoia

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The road to Sequoia National Park from the town of Three Rivers, California. School had not yet let out for summer vacation and we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  A freak late May snowstorm made it even more so.

This is Rosecrans National Cemetery at Point Loma in San Diego. My wife's dad is buried here. It's a very beautiful place with awesome views of the Pacific Ocean.