Image Credit: A. Grace (Aly Pictured It)

Ephemeral Beauty

Velvet Petals in the Desert

Hard, dark stone, littered with petrified wood and glittering pebbles. Colorful lichen and dusty juniper.

A warm day walking a rocky cliffside. Hollow footsteps. An empty valley stretches below me. The carved canyons at Zion stand behind me, just out of view.

Grasses grow from fine sand. A cactus blooms in the desert — all velvet petals…