Observant owls prefer to watch,
and not be seen.
At twilight we sing, muted duets.
They swoop close, ruffling my hair.
Letting me know they see me clearly,
as I go slowly blind in the deepening dusk.
Cheers to you from the all seeing owls~
are particularly hard,
subject to extreme ups and downs,
making you feel perpetually unsafe,
like you might, at any minute,
fall off a cliff.
People often wonder,
why be in such a relationship?
They may not share the love of the challenge, the discipline, the risk.
Cheers to you from beautiful Utah and the remarkable rock-hounds who choose to defy gravity & win~
Some humans relax in natural places,
and are less content in human spaces.
While other’s thrive in the social whirl,
a nature’s soul will find depth of meaning,
far from the thrum of a human being.
Nature’s souls go to wild spaces,
for it is here they find their sacred places.
Cheers to you from a nature’s soul~
All creatures here,
chase the light,
which has such a small window of existence,
that when you catch it,
it has already changed.
Shadow is ever present here,
defining the light.
Cheers to you from the land of light and shadow~
Alien Talking Heads.
Sedna’s Queens. Obviously we are not in Sedna, but we may as well be. I also made up these names.
The surface of Sedna. Sedna is thought to be the most distant dwarf planet in our solar system and was discovered in 2003.
The enthroned Queen. We are in Arches National Park in Utah which looks like a cross between Petra, Egypt, and some alien world.
The Four Pharoahs.
Valley of the Kings.
Tower of Babel.
Munch’s Balancing Brain.
Climbing Devils Thumb. (Click to enlarge the photo and you can see the technical climber about thrity feet from the summit.)
Anteojos. (Glasses in Spanish)
Six-shooter.
Cheers to you from Arches National Park in Utah~
We are traveling between Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, so internet is spotty, but I will touch base with you when I can.
One of the world’s top ten miniature museums is located in Victoria Canada. There are eighty-five exhibits here covering world history, Canadian history, fantasy, fairy tales, and even future space exploration.
I loved the nostalgic look at the circus coming to town!
There are dioramas depicting castles in England,
Germany,
and Canadian cities in the past.
Many exhibits depict the frontier history and development of Canada.
The museum has the world’s smallest working saw-mill which took eleven years to make,
and one of the world’s longest model railways.
These miniature worlds were created by George Devlin over the course of his lifetime. The museum opened in 1971 and George continues to expand it to this day.
Cheers to you from Victoria’s fascinating Lilliputian World~
