Nurture your Nature

Walk down Kim Williams Trail

Walk down Kim Williams Trail
2011, March 27

mud and bike tracks
lichen and moss
one man on a bike, one more
snow, wet sand
foam and logs from Milltown in the river
exposed stone
2 more youth on bikes
maroon mahonia turning green
dry sand in an open area of weathered grass and budless shrubs
blue sky now dulling to grey
breeze from the canyon
brown poplar leaves
a stick flying through the air
two people in black down by the water
the roar of traffic on the other side
yellow-green moss
more maroon-green mahonia
a vestige of snow in a trough
stonefly on a blade
"icebergs" hugging the shadows along the southern banks
the sharp drop-off
another fly on the bleached sorrow of yarrow
green sprigs of grass along the exposed path
buttercups in bud, almost in flower
dry ridge of sand
a couple of cones still clinging to pine
sage
blue berries of green-brown juniper
a sprawling mess of a human encampment
liverwort
heuchera
needles in the narrow path between trees
animal holes in the banks under shrubs
orange-brown rotting wood
orange peels
small branches tips littering the humus
a noise in the woods up ahead

climbing up to the railroad bed
covered with ice and snow
big paw prints
hole in the ice melted by a leaf
a black garbage bag
strewn macaroni
crack of hollow ice underfoot
long puddle standing in a groove
red chesapeake retriever
young master with blond hair and red beard

past the waterfall now smudged.

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