Poem After my Vacation Out West

The air is airier out West.

The light is lighter, and longer.

The days are drier.

No matter how high you get,

you can always get higher.

To the Force that revealed these mountains,

redolent of the glorious glaciers

that carved the rivers, leaving rubble, runnels and rivulets

for eons, and for us all:

Thank you.

Yeah. Tim and I took the famous Rocky Mountaineer train trip from Vancouver to Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Then stayed overnight and hiked up Tunnel Mountain. Yeah. This photo is one of about 500 i took along the way and in Banff, which i believe is the consensus “Most Jaw-Dropping Place in North America.”