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Tag Archives: California
Epilogue: Retreat from Retreat
Our days at the Hermitage drew to an end. We packed our suitcases and returned them to the vehicle for the drive back to my mother’s home. We attended the Vigil and Lauds services, ate breakfast, cleaned up the Sophia … Continue reading
Poem: Clouds
The clouds rise, like mountains upliftedBy vaporous subduction zones of tectonic platesIn geological time measured in secondsRather than millennia. 7,200 seconds ago we were submerged inA cloud which covered the Santa Lucia MountainsIn billowing puffs as if to burry us … Continue reading
Poem: Fog
Along the coast, the clouds lay, wrapping the shore in mist,Not obscuring, but softening the line of the ocean’s horizonAnd swirling the foam of waves that swell and churn the rocks,Sea plants and creatures, which cling to the shallow tide … Continue reading
Poem: Creation
Of all the land, and sea, and skyOf all that lives upon thoseShores, in the air, and below the tide,How do we attend to you? Of all our senses do weSee, hear, touch, taste andBreath in the aroma of creationThat … Continue reading
Poem: Morning Vigil
We awake to a waning gibbous, One of the phases fromFull to crescent to new. It’s light shinesThrough the lace curtainOf clouds, which soon Will turn maroonAnd gold and blueIn our dawn vigil. (At the New Camodoli Hermitage, the Vigil service … Continue reading
Poem: Big Sur, Big South
We travel south along the coast.The road rises and falls with the tides,Swelling and curving around each rocky vista. South, “Sur” to the Spanish, Big, for grand is the coastal mountainsWhich push up from the sea, Big Sur, Big South. The … Continue reading
The High Sierras, Wildflowers, Color, White
We came upon these white colored wildflowers in June. We were hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains at Rock Creek Lake, Devil’s Postpile to Rainbow Falls, Bodie State Historic Park, Panum Crater and Mono Lake, and over Tioga pass.
The High Sierras, Wildflowers, Blue & Purple
We came upon these blue to purple colored wildflowers in June. We were hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains at Rock Creek Lake, Devil’s Postpile to Rainbow Falls, Bodie State Historic Park, Panum Crater and Mono Lake, and over … Continue reading
The High Sierra, Wildflower Color, Red
We came upon these red to pink colored wildflowers in June. We were hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains at Rock Creek Lake, Devil’s Postpile to Rainbow Falls, Bodie State Historic Park, Panum Crater and Mono Lake, and over … Continue reading
The High Sierra, Wildflower Color, Yellow
We came upon these yellow colored wildflowers in June. We were hiking in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains at Rock Creek Lake, Devil’s Postpile to Rainbow Falls, Bodie State Historic Park, Panum Crater, Mono Lake, and over Tioga Pass.
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