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The things I once did
I remember the hop, skip and jump between the ends of a jump rope with childhood friends and practicing the hurdles and running a relay was the thing I did inside the gym. Our coach yelled, “Go!”, and...
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Stepping back in time
It has been forty-nine years ago today when we stood at the altar of our church in Kansas City, Mo., at the young, tender age of nineteen. We said our vows, declaring our love, promising to cherish...
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Memories of vacations past
It was the morning of July 5th, 2005. My husband, and I with our daughter, husband and children headed north out of Colorado towards Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. It was not my first trip to...
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And may my words pour like rain
Sometimes I sit and stare At the blank page before me there I think, What shall I write today? Do I have anything worthy to say? Something forming or stirring in my brain I can express in whatever,...
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Two brothers, two nations, and what divides them
She was hated by one, yet loved by another; the God of the father of her illegitimate child. The Egyptian maidservant approached his tent with trepidation. Abraham didn’t want to do it, but he had no...
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The games we played
The floor was our playing table. It was not cards or dice we held in our hands, but Jacks. Not the Jack of cards, but those tiny metal objects with spokes poking out from the center. The other thing...
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Rocky Mountain National Park – 100 years
This year (2015) marks the 100th year since RMNP opened and declared a national park in 1915. We live in Loveland which is only about thirty miles from the park entrance and every time...
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There came…
There came a brave little chipmunk just half the size of a skunk to our picnic in the park from his home in the dark to eat the crumbs by the trunk. He stuffed his mouth and searched around for more...
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Farewell to Summer’s sweet end
Summer shies away while autumn draws nigh and cool I bid sad farewell To the season’s warm sweet smells Of late August blooms, and sigh ___________________ Joyce E. Johnson © 2015 Filed under:...
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What grows beneath the rock
This rock cropping is a part of the large boulders we have on our mountain property in Roosevelt National Forest, northwest of Fort Collins, Co. where the Aspen trees can grow and survive through any...
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My fish story; the one I reeled in
That’s me, with my fish in front of our YNP cabin by Lake Yellowstone, about age 8 or round that. :) 16 & 1/2 inches it was. We measured it. I was about eight and the youngest of my sisters and...
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Welcoming autumn
Autumn in the Colorado Rockies – mountain ridge along the Cache La Poudre River, northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado The days seem shorter; I want the sun to linger, but autumn beckons like a host at...
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Colorado’s gold
These are some of our captured images while on a day trip Saturday (Sept. 26th). We had beautiful blue skies of over 100 miles in a day taking in the color, sights and sounds of the rising majestic...
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The Mouse (flash fiction for Friday Fictioneers)
Photo credit: Marie Gail Stratford. Thanks, Marie for the photo prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneers I have not submitted a flash fiction story to Rochelle Wisoff Field’s Friday Fictioneers for...
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Autumn vacations
All of the above photos were taken while on vacation trips years ago to the upper northeast, New England, (U.S.) and Nova Scotia, Canada province area. It was in October when the orange, gold and...
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River’s Edge
We have a newly restored walking/hiking trail with fishing lakes that recently reopened after it was destroyed by the 2013 flood when much of it washed out within a week of its grand opening date....
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Still reflections
Looking west towards the mountains from River’s Edge Nature Preserve, Loveland, Colorado, houses can be seen in the dark, but a small lone light was on in one where my lens caught it. This was a very...
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Autumn’s crowning gold
This photo was taken while on a walking trail at River’s Edge, Loveland, Colorado. The interesting thing about this photo is that when it was taken it was already growing dark, just past sunset. My...
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A quiet retreat
This photo was taken of the Cache la Poudre River near the Bighorn cabins where we stayed. Photo credit: Joyce E. Johnson The cabin we stayed in beside the river. Photo credit: Joyce E. Johnson I...
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Succumbing to nature’s twist of fate
I took this photo up on our mountain property in the northwest part of Colorado where we have about four acres. We have a lot of trees and boulders and the scenery is beautiful, but in the last...
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