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Monthly Archives: December 2012

Christmas-time Cactus

December 28, 2012 · by Chris Bradley | in Baja, cactus, flowers, ordinary miracles | 6 Comments

I think these cactus blooms look like fancy bows for holiday gifts. Photo taken Dec. 26th in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

Reading: One Poem a Day

December 21, 2012 · by Chris Bradley | in awareness, birds, poetry, reading | 2 Comments

I can read a novel for hours, luxuriating in a well-told story; an interesting piece of nonfiction can intrigue me for equally long periods. But poems . . . Only one poem can speak to me per day, it seems. I’ve discovered that reading a poem a day provides me the perfect pace, time spent […]

The Breeze Weaves a Quiet Tale

December 12, 2012 · by Chris Bradley | in awareness, birds, landscape, poetry, Texas hill country | 2 Comments

On a still night in the darkness of a clean sky the breeze weaves a quiet tale. Looking on in lonely splendor the stars smile and nod their heads as it pleases them looking for a cloud as a pillow and drifting into sleep. It is a grand old song sung countless times through many […]

Cypress Tree with Painted Toe-nails

December 8, 2012 · by Chris Bradley | in Texas hill country, trees | Leave a comment

Doesn’t this bald cypress look as though it has green toe-nails? Photo taken in November at Cibolo Nature Center

All We Have Met

December 5, 2012 · by Chris Bradley | in awareness, ordinary miracles | 5 Comments

We are who we are because of what we have done, where we have been, where we reside. We are different after experiencing new places, performing new tasks. I may never again go to Taxco, a colonial “silver city” of Mexico with cobblestone streets, but I am not the same person as I was before […]

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