Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

Crestone Colorado lies up against the Sangre De Cristo Mountains on the Eastern side of the San Luis Valley. The quiet capatures reality. I’m a Westerner by birth and a City dweller by happenstance. In a quiet place, nature listens. Deer Listening at a Window Junco Listening for a seed

 One   ....  Two... Three!

What is a wide, closed space?  Do people use commas anymore?  Grammar! I'm a "take it for granted" sort of person.   Just this afternoon I took for granted that I might look out the window of my Brother's home in Crestone and watch the sun go down.  It was going down very well, and so I took a picture while I still had enought light.   Nothing that anti-granted happened, and here's what I saw: but here's what my camera saw:

Inviting Pathway Accepted Invitation

Water Wind, Sky and Starry metal

Hello Boys and Girls, Today we are going to be creating fish. We have been studying the various requirements for a successful fish, and your job this recess is to Create One Fish. Rules: 1. You may create anything you like that still qualifies as a fish rather than a non-fish. 2. It must not eat everything in sight, or there won’t be enough other fish to go around. 3. Similarly, it must not be easily preyed upon and eaten. 4. You may use any fins, strings, colors, appendages, densities, self lighting systems, lacey pieces, gils, courting rituals, scales, behavior systems or anatomical proportions so long as you create a reasonably happy fish. Now go out and play.

There's no way to create your particular tree in a photo.  A christmas tree is simply too personal.  Here's one in my friends home, as yet untrimmed,  filling the room with the fragrances of time.