Benevolent Adversity

Behold sunlight dance with untamed watercourse;

In company with shadows lift mood of tawny surge.

Banks awash forewarn floods which in due course

Encourage mindset of resilience to emerge.

© Ilija Lukić 2019

Benevolent Adversity
(Haw River at Bynum, North Carolina USA)

Elephant Butte Sunset

A week ago arctic breath keeps denizens of the Piedmont Plateau here in North Carolina huddled near hearth fires. Today a fifty degree temperature hike seems to vindicate Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of an early spring. The balmy early-February weather reaches into mind’s eye and looses memories of a sunset at Elephant Butte in the Navajo Valley of the Rocks, more commonly known as Monument Valley.

© Ilija Lukić 2019

Elephant Butte Sunset (Photo-Impressionism)