Winter Camp, view West to Sparta Butte | buy this photo |
Stable high-pressure weather and good, safe snow. What more can one ask!
To get up to the wilderness from here is another two-day trek.
On the road in the American Northwest.
WINTER LINES
The lines of winter
lie tightly together
like buds tucked close
against a leafless twig.
Stopping short of snow,
of cold:—
seeds of crystals,
of new ideas,
listening
for the chance,
just the chance,
of an echo
in the surrounding silence.