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Photo & Poem Challenge: Visiting Friends

We shared stories as we drove up the canyon road that angled between rocks, colored grape and copper and sienna;...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Waiting

The air goes still on the prairie during that instant when my finished inhale lifts gravity and just before the...
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Photo Challenge: Structure

  This horse covers the ground more quietly on four hooves than my old feet can manage, dynamic strides so...
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Photo Challenge: Corner

The first hint comes just at moon rise on an ordinary August weeknight. It's hardly a breeze at all, certainly...
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Photo Challenge: Shiny

  Birdwatching in the dark is an art best practiced with no yard light. Start just after the colors are...
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Photo Challenge: Elemental

I remembered to sink the corner post deep, filled the hole with Quikcrete, and topped it off with dirt. Then...
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Photo Challenge: Textures

  She was a coyote fighter, moving just off the herd, across the high desert prairie. Buying her calves time...
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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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Photo Challenge: Bridge

  The frail filament strands that suspend us in parallel travel are intricately woven back onto themselves, situated so cleverly...
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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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