"WHERE LONG the SHADOWS..."

THE SHEAVES ( 1925) written by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled in

Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned,

And as by some vast magic undivined

The world was turning slowly into gold.

Like nothing that was ever bought or sold

It waited there, the body and the mind;

And with a mighty meaning of a kind

That tells the more the more it is not told.

So, in a land where all days are not fair,

Fair days went on till on another day

A thousand gold sheaves were lying there....

Shining and still...

...but not for long to stay...

As if a thousand girls with gold hair

Might rise from where they slept....

...and go away.

Photographs 2026 this poem "the Sheaves" is in the public domain

 

INTO FALL....

FULL MOON by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) 

                                                 From her collection "Dark of the Moon" 1926

I listened, there was not a sound to hear

In the great rain of moonlight...

                ...pouring down.

The eucalyptus trees were carved...

                     ...in silver.

And a light mist of silver lulled the town.

I saw far off the grey Pacific bearing

A broad white disk of flame,

     And on the garden-walk...

a snail beside me...

         Tracing in crystal...

...the slow way he came.

"Midsummer night the garden perfumes are earth and apple, dewy pine and rose..." -Sara Teasdale

Photographs 2026 Mt. Washington range 

                                    from Campbell River, BC.

 

MT. WASHINGTON RANGE

For the first time, a full view of Mt. Washington range from Campbell River,B.C. and looking south.

"You are not in the mountains. The Mountains are in you..."

                                                                                                                  -John Muir

"Mountains know secrets we need to learn..." -Tyler Knott

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds..." -Robert Green Ingersoll

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. may your mountains rise into and above the clouds..." -Edward Abbey

"And into the mountains I must go, to lose my mind and find my soul..." - John Muir

“May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.” - Harley King

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” -Kahlil Gabran

44. “Although I deeply love other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” – Victoria Erikson

Photographs 2026