Twilight

The Big Dipper

Venus bright through the clouds

Venus

Jaking watching the bank at dawn

The entrance to a derelict portal

Followed a coyote trail
Led us to a derelict portal
Overgrown and littered with downed trees
Unwelcome guest broke limbs, snapped twigs
Crawled under and over felled trees
Conquered the chaos, made it to the river
Was what we saw worth the fight?

The view after we emerged from the derelict portal

Jake was stumped

Jake watching the bank at sunrise

The prickly pear washed away, the tree holding on by a large taproot.

Contrails at sunrise

I got home very late tonight

A ghost in the clouds