our road trip return:
too many blossoms to count
(spring inside the house)
even outside blooms
just planted last September
have welcomed us home
Soft Petals
nature
Burned Trees and Snow
Colorado roads:
beautiful mountain vistas
scarred by wildfires
Morning, Noon, and Night in Prescott
javelina hike
to a cactus-filled Thumb Butte
to start the morning
a Whiskey Row lunch
Watson Lake under blue skies
for the afternoon
my daughter’s new friends
soon to be her new roommates:
a perfect evening
Bucket List Day
Monument Valley:
the perfect sunrise rest stop
to light our faces
snow at Grand Canyon:
surprise bucket list side trip
to catch her snowfall
all three together:
it feels like a bucket list
to let them g(r)o(w)
Coronadas
a new Corona
three years after quarantine
back to wilderness
girls’ trip for spring break
to collect our Subaru
and meet our sister
miracle arches
connect the past and future
with hope for this life
Hold Up the Sky
your bucket list waits
for a ‘delicate’ sunset,
a breathtaking arch
your children await
at the top of a boulder
with the perfect view
a lifetime awaits
at the end of vacation
yet memories last
Flowers for Futures
after four days off
(a vacation i needed)
what a perfect note
and the orchid blooms!
he bought her eight years ago
(just a baby then)
they were babies then
my daughters, their dolls, these blooms
(trying to find light)
now unstoppable
bursting with so many buds
(flowers for futures)
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