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Photo Challenge & Poem: Tour Guide

Peeping through a knothole in a pine fence, a wind-worn cheek pressed to splintered wood. Craning to watch a small...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Weathered

It’s winter; the sun comes up late and flat yellow, without warmth. A dusting of snow will stay on this...
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Photo Challenge: Growth (of a Kind)

Euthanasia is never easy, but it can be less punishing. The secret is to focus on love instead of loss....
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Sanity & Sanitary

Fingers in the worn glove curve to meet the shape of the wooden handle in my palm. Muck boots shuffle,...
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EOY P&L: Life, Death, and Tears

EOY P&L... my last post of the year always has some math involved. I don't have the math skills to quantify the number...
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Talking Animals at Midnight

Just in from the night feed. It's long john weather, my head bandaged with layers of hats and a muffler,...
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Severe Weather Warning

It was 78 degrees yesterday. It's late October so the sun is lower in the sky. There was a slight...
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Photo Challenge: Satisfaction

  The sun leaves just the sky behind, a watery arch over the prairie, and my feet cling to the...
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Photo Challenge: Collage

How many times did I ask on a breath and a thought that you consider the moment? Consider joining me...
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Caring for the Lead Mare

It was a perfect day. There were just enough clouds to soften the heat. The front gate didn't open once all day...
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