The bottle fragments form a low landscape of shards. I chose a glass bottle because it is from the earth, and it has been expanding and contracting all year. This has been an organic process for both of us. Evidence of elk. A light frost on the earth.
Trees are too picturesque.
Their detail is revealed as the dawn light enters, and they float until the light increases and exposes the contours of the hills behind. It is evidence of the light moving across the landscape, and settling it into the forms we are familiar with. Two weeks to go. Flat gray clouds moved in early this afternoon to dampen light and spirits. Melancholy covered me and the earth.