Daily Note
Every day, a photograph, a poem. I called this a sunset because of the pink hues in the photo, but it’s really early afternoon, showing the sign of a winter sun. Still, I was struck by the colors of this December day, how the greens and yellows of the late summer are now muted blues and browns. Bunch grass are mostly tans, and the sagebrush is the light bluish-green. The brown/green tall bushes are bitterbrush, a strong shrub able to live in desert ecosystems and provide habitat and food for wildlife. Our mule deer may enjoy a bite or two, especially for survival in winter. Bitterbrush holds moisture in the soil and offers coolness to the heat of desert summers. It’s one of the plants on display as part of collected plants by Lewis and Clark, displayed at Lewis and Clark Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. [antelopebitterbrush by Montana Outdoors]
And, of course, Guthrie loves to run free in and out of the sagebrush and up and down the hills, finding the same vertebrae each time to munch on.
Poetry
Winter Sunset
In winter’s scene at sunset’s call,
Sheri Edwards
Muted hues of brown and blue
sky of silvers, tinged pink we view
a puffed out blanket draping all:
sagebrush, bitterbrush, bunch grass
with dried, dormant wildflowers
all subtly dressed in winter’s colors.
12.13.23 345.365.23
Poetry/Photography
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