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
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”–Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It’s a white dark world Time stops, frozen, […]
The only color in the landscape that even approaches vivid is the dark emerald of the evergreens on the hillside. […]
“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 […]
Eyelash petals thrust out with intentionthe last purple aster stands stout amidst the pumpkin spice melee of a hillside in high autumn. […]
It was an unseasonably warm November day, and my friend and I were walking her two dogs wearing only long […]
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