Wildflowers: Showy Daisy.

Erigeron speciosus.
What a splendid old mountain man
Common to Idaho's midsummer high country
With large clusters of flowerheads
Purple rays emanating from a yellow disc.
Sometimes known as Fleabane or Aspen Daisy.

Snow over Day 69

Two February dumps

Of a half-foot or more

Have secured snowcover

On the valley floor.

Cloudware

What becomes of all this data 

These images and videos

The words and numbers

Tweets and posts and conversations

Of this existence

Its memory

When the hardware fails?

Is it all backed up in heaven?

Archived forever in the clouds?

A small contribution

To some massive multiplayer meme?

Or does it evaporate

Like a dream upon waking

Into empty space?

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A Waxing Moon

Beneath a waxing moon

Dreams may grow.

This is the time for planting seeds

Putting on new clothes

And making a difference.

Seasonality

Pinned to a globe

That spins and wobbles

As it revolves in orbits

All of this is by nature seasonal.

There is no inclination or investment 

No badger or butterfly 

Motor or mountain

That doesn't rock with the seasons

All of it spirals endlessly

Into tomorrows..

Snow Blanket

This blanket of snow

A foot deep now

Insulates the ground below

And chills the air above.

Big Wood River at River Run

See the Big Wood River
At River Run
Noontime in late January.