spinning in infinity

This is another view looking eastward toward the Green Mountains from James Road in Middlebury, Vermont. It is a true gift to have the opportunity to travel the back roads of this state!

Available through Edgewater Gallery

Are not the difficult labors of our lives
full of dark hours?
And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far,

that is better than these light-filled bodies?
All day
on their airy backbones
they toss in the wind,

they bend as though it was natural and godly to bend,
they rise in a stiff sweetness,
in the pure peace of giving
one’s gold away.

–Mary Oliver