a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life

Coming out of a life-giving two weeks with my friends in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico to deliver, over a month later, on my promise of a newsletter with "no publishing schedule". (I moved too, ok??) Deserts are famous for not encouraging life, but I didn't feel that way petting scaly junipers, bouncing on the rolling shoulders of Big Steve (my Grand Canyon mule) or savoring a stray Parkinsonia's feathery cool. Whenever I travel, I take a lot of photos of plants and rocks. They move me. The following stretch back a long time and go out to green gangstas everywhere.

A black-and-white photograph of poky brambles in a chaparral. Three white ibises stalk a green bank of a lake. Mountains with sun streaming across them rise up at the end of a long desert shot from a car's driver's seat. A lichenous rock face with a foot in a hiking boot askew across it. A verdant valley with a stream in it and variegated flowers in bloom down the side. A shadowed mountainside blanketed in orange flowers. Two butterflies dead in a pile of dead leaves. A sun-blurred sky intermingles with several flagpoles on an Indian country highway. A thick-leafed tree during the day lit by camera flash. A woman in a bright orange top and socks poses amongst reedy ferns on a garden path A large crop of cacti and succulents in the sun at a garden Cacti out of focus in a desert garden with a blurry identifying sign next to them A field of wispy, reedy, sticks in a row A view looking up from between blades of grass in black-and-white A black and white hillside in the sun A broad horizon of the ocean rippling outward in the sun. Barbed wire over a sparsely vegetated dune and a hillside. A black-and-white photo of a banana tree lit by camera flash. A very large green jungle clearing expanse. Red-pink flower bed with red and green light leaks around the edge of the image Yellow flowers in the corner of a grid with red light leaks around the edge of the image A deer looking into the sun in a forest glade. Overlapping thin tree branches lit by a camera flash during the daytime. A stone and a blanket of moss on a pond lit by camera flash.

Shout out the spectacular Museum of Jurassic Technology: I ripped this week's subject line from their slogan. More soon(er). ;)

love,

alex

May 25, 2022, 4:41 a.m.

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