Spruce & Sagebrush

small stories from a large landscape

Essays & Poems

Short essays and poems born of the southern Rocky Mountains and deserts of the Colorado Plateau

Winter Garden

“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”–Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It’s a white dark world Time stops, frozen, […]

It’s Not Your Turkey

The only color in the landscape that even approaches vivid is the dark emerald of the evergreens on the hillside. […]

Lone Little Dipper

“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters,  loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as […]

Even though dawn is less than an hour away, it is black dark, clear and cold, the stars vibrant crystal […]

The Last Aster

Eyelash petals thrust out with intentionthe last purple aster stands stout amidst the pumpkin spice melee of a hillside in high autumn. […]

Some Dogs

It was an unseasonably warm November day, and my friend and I were walking her two dogs wearing only long […]

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