God's Country

There are few places in the world like Zion's National Park. If God had an address, this certainly would be it (at least one of Her homes). As we hiked along, someone before us had put a little girl's lost shoe on the sign, in hopes that a parent would be able to claim it. The intimacy of this shot was such a contrast to the the wide grandeur of everything else we had seen.

Color of Winter

Alma Mater

My dear alma mater.

To be clear, "alma mater" is the school you graduated from.

Or it could be the name given to a sculpture of the goddess Minerva by Daniel Chester French.

Alma Mater is also the name of a BBC play and was the title used in ancient Rome for the mother goddess as well as the for the Virgin Mary in Medieval Christianity.

In this case, I'm referring to the University of Utah.

Anyway, I wish I had lots of affectionate warm fuzzy stories to share with you concerning my "nourishing mother", but I don't think you really want to hear them and to be honest, I can't seem to recall very many motherly memories.

Still Waters

Still waters
where days gone by
refuse to gently slumber.
May memories moor the broken heart
and temper what time refuses.