These images are from a photo safari I undertook this week in Jefferson, Colorado, in between intense empathy and hand-wringing.

I’m fascinated by the dandelion; such a temporal thing it is. Transient, and yet tenacious, it grows, blooms, morphs, and flies away, above the fray, to plant seeds (and a new life) somewhere else.

Boreas Pass in central Colorado is scenic, lovely, unspoiled and a call from nature to join her.

We had a visit from a beautiful mule deer here at Little House in the Rockies this week. She wasn’t at all skittish or shy.

Grab a cup of coffee and I’ll walk you through a couple of happy hours I spent with my camera on Easter afternoon at the Tarryall Reservoir State Wildlife Area.

Our fence posts seemed to be a set of crosses with a message: Spring is here, the tomb is empty, and resurrection, rebirth and new growth are real.

The backstory for this (hopefully) enigmatic haiku is a tale of a search through my photo library.

Scrabble is a great game for COVID-19 quarantining. (And I finally won.)

A mountaintop picnic in Colorado’s Pike National Forest sparkled with nature and pineapple mimosas.

My lost loved ones were in this sky, whispering a gossamer goodbye.

A return to the slopes provided a fierce hunger and Amica’s Pizza in Salida beckoned to us from the street. What a great choice!

The sky over South Park Valley demands a haiku today, the first day of NaHaiWriMo 2020.

Hummingbirds work hard. They do what needs to be done.

Haiku inspired by a coming storm in the Colorado Rockies.

A video and photos of an unexpected Memorial Day weekend snowstorm in central Colorado, and a haiku to capture the feeling.

Something in this Food & Wine magazine will be on our table this weekend during our quiet time in the mountains of Colorado.

A magnificent bighorn sheep posed for me, turning this way and that. He was either mildly amused or mildly annoyed, and we enjoyed a few moments together. Three haiku and these photos are the result.

“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” said the Grill-Meister as he fired up the outdoor burner to cook bacon in 5° weather.

5:30 a.m.5 degrees, a pot of teapeaceful solitude © 2018 Glover Gardens

Magpies pose and inspired haiku with their tuxedo coloring and bright blue wings.