Too busy walking?

Here’s a late start to my new year’s posting.

It’s been raining and everywhere my dog and I walk the mosses and lichens are rejoicing. Here’s a poem with photo from Wednesday on the El Dorado Trail:

Trunks & Limbs

Old as an elephant

all its ventures & wanderings

as if set in stone as gray as patience

hide & heartwood

scars & scabs & lifelines

darker growths not cancer but

impassive moss

& unlobed leaves breathing in

breathing out uncountably

wise this live

oak.

~ Taylor Graham