DAILY PHOTO: Sunrise onto Annapurna South

Taken in April of 2018 in Nepal.

DAILY PHOTO: Moon over Mountains, Annapurna Sanctuary

Taken in April of 2018 in the Annapurna Sanctuary.

DAILY PHOTO: Train Station in a Remote Location

Taken in the Summer of 2010 in the Peruvian Andes

DAILY PHOTO: Green Valley Floor









Taken in August of 2016 in Ladakh

DAILY PHOTO: Scene from the Central Volcanic Zone

Taken near Sabancaya in the Peruvian Andes in the Summer of 2010

DAILY PHOTO: Mountains with a Splash of Yellow

Taken in Kashmir in August of 2016 on the Great Lakes Trek between Naranag and Sonamarg

POEM: The Other Side

 

one never, ever, crests a rise

without killing off a pack of lies

the ugly lie: it’s all descent

belied by cold, granite torment

the pretty lie: continued gloom

skewered by rhododendrons in full bloom

Moon Haiku

day moon
subdued but looming
soon gone



sliver moon
crescent vanishing
hanging lure



mountain moon
lighting valleys
show my trail



shadowless
til milky moonlight
spills the clouds



nitid moon
you must’ve been resplendent
but I slept



POEM: Amboseli

belly-deep in glacial runoff

amid an emerald sea

a mud-caked troupe of elephants

the marsh free of acacia trees

Kilimanjaro looms in the distance

the source of all subsistence

if it should go

they’ll never know

it’s a death they can’t outdistance

Sky Haiku





moonlight
so bright silence
can’t be heard



azure sky
one puffy cloud
dances through



Andean night
the pinpoints I knew
a smear of color



Himalaya
so close that heaven
reveals its color



low gray clouds
leaf chaos unleashed
smell of rain