XV: In the Morning viii

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XV: In the Morning viii—Mount Rainier National Park: Skyline Trail Overlook This original miniature acrylic painting of captures beargrass on the iconic skyline trail in Mount Rain ier National Park. It is part of 'The Journey,' an ongoing collection of poetry and 600 mini landscapes in National Park locations created while traveling full-time in my vintage 1976 Avion Travelcader. In the Morning Between the rush of smooth water slipping, past roots and rocks Lavender and scarlet and blue, In little towers, Rise— Neither loud nor shy Kissed— By wings of blue butterflies Alone, in that hour, I was passing by, When the wind flared, blossoms shivered and the sun, With his coral arms, Unfolded Rainier’s glory: glaciers gleaming, cliffs immense And Myself? in this peace, I sit among the fields of lupine and paintbrush Who bow to the grandeur of the morning -Laura Van Moorleghem view the rest of the Mount Rainier subcollection or The Journey Show more