Photo By: Carrie
Get down
Deeper
Than you can see
Clearly let the natural
Surroundings envelop
You, your worries and frights (more…)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped
Leaves
Manual Mode Satisfaction
Color Version
(Please click on an image to view the full details of the leaves)
These are the images I captured last week during a break in a rain shower. This tree sits right outside my sons preschool. The kids run out of the classroom and jump into the trunk of this tree climbing its branches everyday after school lets out. This is one happy tree. (more…)
X-Ray Vision
Photo By: Carrie (click on this image to experience the fine details in this photograph)
It happens, seeing through
sometimes when I least expect to see
through into you
no color hues
no fancy masks to hide
behind your stripped down self
your cells, veins and cellulite (more…)
Focus
Dragon Scales
Photo By: Carrie
Focus obscured depth, wonder
You can fly, soar
Even make a man fearfully shake
To death intentionally
Incinerating breath
Eyes on fire blazing your thoughts (more…)
Home
Photo By: Carrie
Wrap yourself in the wonders of nature, welcome home.
The Affair
Photo By: Carrie
Eureka Zoo, Eureka CA (more…)
Veins
Photo By: Carrie
The road
Map of life, intricate
Design, abstract art
Aged lines, energy
Transport, alive, follow
If you can (more…)
Decomposition
Photo By: Carrie
Rich moist cool
To the touch wet
Together combining
Into one feeding
The soul of the woods (more…)
Thankful Gifts
And the Winner is…week 4!
Arcata Community Forest, Arcata CA
As promised, a poem for Thanksgiving and inspired by the winner of the first One Four Challenge. I hope you fill yourself with grateful moments by this week’s end.
The gift of thanks a common praise
Yet acknowledging all
The special ways your life
Was touched each day
Takes time, each evening before we eat
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The Shady Tree 