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Photo Challenge: Delta

Walking the washout, high desert ground between pond silt and prairie pasture, I know to look for crushed cans, bits...
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Photo Challenge: Transient

A hand flattened to shade my brow, questioning the late-afternoon glare diced with shadow, not certain I should trust my...
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Photo Challenge: Focus

  This willful mare will not be owned. She makes choices; her neck softens lower as she turns her ear...
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Photo Challenge: Order

The passing hours of this hot-dry day spook and buck and bolt, swirling together and scattering apart in a a...
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Photo Challenge: Friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHCTZqU3p4 One likes to be alone. One likes to sleep a lot. One likes contrary opinions. One doesn't care what...
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Photo Challenge: Evanescent

After the bay gelding's leg is doctored and wrapped, I walk the fence line looking at bent posts and hair...
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Photo Challenge: Heritage (with Doghair)

The dog watches me sit at the edge of the bed pulling a frayed t-shirt over my head, shoulders rounded...
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Photo Challenge: Reflecting

It’s the job of a hero to stand a strong wind, invincible against a dark sky, giving us pause to...
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Photo Challenge: Danger

The danger of horses is not their strength and power, thrusting forward with a brilliant heart, ribboned with intelligence, clean...
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Photo Challenge: Wanderlust

It’s the irresistible call to scout hidden ravines and gaze along the elevated vistas behind the shade of an eyelash,...
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Photo Challenge: Earth

Earthling, born of indelible green, translucent waters, boundless clouds and sky, and tasked in each small life to be curious...
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Photo Challenge: Surprise

Dawdling through chores, then a dousing in the shower And rushing to a book event, I checked the visor-mirror for...
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Photo Challenge: Security

The feel of home. You tuck it safe in some tidy place, half-way between fresh dreams and dear memories. If...
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Photo Challenge: Dense

Stupid. Dense. Stubborn. Lazy. Until we stop seeing others in our own worst self-image, these words will describe us. .......
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Photo Challenge: Easy Being Green

  I’ll take this gray rain to wet a controlled burn in my lungs that’s taken my air and dropped...
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Photo Challenge: Atop

  It's an inherited seat; elders and babies ride loose in time, strong and vulnerable and not quite domesticated. Sky-tall and exquisitely...
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Photo Challenge: Wish

We felt them close before we had skin; from an infinite prairie the vibration began. A slow rolling nicker rumbled,...
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Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.

  Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
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