The Most Beautiful Day

Opened eyes and heart, and the clouds did part.

Snowy black peaks and the most verdant green hill, blue/purple lupine and strange green snow peas with white fur whose leaves trapped dewy diamonds. A glacier that echoed the rainbow, curving into the distance, all its cracks and contrasts lit up. A lake with tumbled icebergs, a lowland and its lazy river. Intricate brown cliffs and the solemn blue of Kachemak Bay, turned to gold by the setting sun. Halibut Cove lagoon with its green waters, black beaches and Disney perfect islands. And beyond the bay, beyond the Spit, past Homer and Cook Inlet, a ring of volcanoes rising from the orange and pink clouds.

And I realized the price of such beauty, is being so far from home.