Today I rearranged the fake flowers.
I placed the fake grape hyacinths on the fireplace mantel, put the fake spring bouquet on a table by the couch, the fake succulents on a shelf just above the kitchen sink. The real daffodils in the front yard were bent low last evening by more than six inches of spring snow. I doubt the tulips along the driveway will survive the vagrant deer that come down from the mountain this time of year. Did you see that satellite photo of the spring equinox? Here in the western hemisphere we’re tilted toward the sun, not shaded by darkness, even though it feels like it. |
AuthorNancy Harris McLelland taught creative writing, composition, and literature for over twenty years and Conducted writing workshops for the Western Folklife Center, Great Basin College , and the Great Basin Writing Project . An Elko County native with a background in ranching. McLelland has presented her "Poems from Tuscarora" Both at daytime and evening events at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Her essay, "Border Lands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon" is in the anthology Cowboy Poetry Matters . Categories |