In Their Footsteps

I had almost nothing to go on. A picture of a flower with a strange feature in the background. I wasn't even certain where the picture had been taken, just the route the photographer had been on. So I followed, hunting for that red flower and the fuzzy black gash in the earth behind it.

I drove slowly on winding mountain roads comparing every peak I saw to the one in my tiny print of the photo. As I neared the end of my journey I was afraid my quest had been in vain. But as I turned a last bend a familiar shape, obscured by the hills rose up, and in the distance that dark opening that had grabbed my attention.

And grab my attention it did.

-2012-
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
treasure
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
beckon
treasure
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
rebirth from hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings