2 posts tagged “trees”
Originally posted on my old blog on February 24th, 2006:
We left Alamogordo and stopped at Three Rivers again to to visit The Indigo Lizard, a gift shop there, where Stina bought a gift for her little sister from the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
After leaving there, we went to Carrizozo, then on to Nogal. Outside of Nogal, we stopped to hit a geocache at a rest stop. I got a great shot of the mountains from the geocache site.
View of the mountains.
Some tree fungus that just looked interesting.
The Haiku Version:
Black birds inhabit
The winter-shorn tree, looking
Like budding dark leaves.
The longer version:
Migration
Black birds inhabit the winter-shorn tree,
Looking like dark leaves budding for an early Spring.
Birds of a feather, taking up squatters' rights
In the temporarily dead cottonwood
Before heading back north.
Didn't head quite far enough south,
Did ya, smart guys?
Feeling a little chilly, I suspect,
As it dips down in the single digits
Even here in the desert.
I know the feeling.
Maybe if I move just one more time,
I'll find a place where I can be
Comfortable in my own skin
Happy to be me.
But my ennui has to do
With neither time nor place,
Independent of the physical world
And no amount of migration will allow me
To escape its icy wind.
