Category Archives: Photographs

WPC – Signs of Street Life Non-sense

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Not a good sign for us that our asphalt connection to the outside world has received more attention during this past year with more non-sense emanating from town, reflective reminders, spaced every tenth of a mile, that nothing ever stays the same.

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Shortly thereafter, Dry Creek Road got its first double-yellow line for its initial eight miles to where the pavement becomes too narrow to accommodate a vehicle either side of it, false hope for tourists taking the backway to Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park towing fifth-wheels with no place to turn around. The most recent signage also suggests sharing the road with bicyclists. Tricky business when the latest fine for crossing over the double-yellow line was $350.

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Then a white fog line painted on and off the dirt. Thank you Tulare County government, dollars well spent!

 

 

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Dawn

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Last to see the light
in the shadow of mountains
rise both day and night.

 

 

AFTER RAIN

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With native grass
we cling like clouds of steam
to hillsides after a rain.

 

 

SHADE

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Comfortable in shadows
no one rises
when I enter their room.

 

 

Mosaic – Ranch Update 3

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Ever-hopeful and in anticipation of tomorrow’s rain, I took a few photos of today’s feed conditions, intending to concentrate on the filaree, having turned red a week or so ago in places, then purple and brown. A miraculous and extremely strong non-native cattle feed, it is the predominant species in dry years. With good moisture, it can come back to life and turn green again. With less than 4” of rain and only about 30 days left in our rainy season that averages about 16” annually, the grasses never really germinated completely, resulting in a mosaic pattern almost everywhere today.

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Just through the fence that separates our driveway from the pasture, I wanted a good shot of where the filaree had turned a purplish brown, only to draw one of the Roadrunners nesting in some nearby Prickly Pear cactus, closer.

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THIS SIDE OF A DRY RIVER

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Short green turns under
clear skies, no place to hide
rocks and cattle grazing.

 

March 29, 2009

March 29, 2009

ALL THE POETRY

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All the poetry
out of dark closets
spread like dandelion seed

on a gust, pages floating
to fertile landings
in the disturbed ground

to take root, unfold
each bud into a blaze
of flowers, and so on.

 

 

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WPC – Reflections of Rock (3)

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Rocks and trees remember
days between rains rising
to see how they looked

to an upside-down world,
watch hawks in the heavens
gliding beneath them.

 

 

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WPC – Roadrunner Reflection (2)

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WPC – Reflections at Railroad Spring (1)

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