The Sky Is My Garden

I posted my first blog on January 3, 2010. As best I can remember, the blog captured two readings: one from me and one from my wife. I reposted the blog about ten years ago, and just for fun, I am reposting my first blog again today. I have also shared the photograph (taken from behind my house) that I shared alongside the blog.

The Sky Is My Garden

The sky is my garden. By day, wind tends rows of clouds or scattered birds. By night, stars blossom above the zinc-colored mountains. They say that this Montana is 'Big Sky Country,' but that is not near enough to explain things. In the heat of summer, the sky ripples and spurs warped ravens across the prairie. At minus twenty, the whole sky sparkles, and the ice on the frozen lake below my house cries and moans. Clouds lift. Clouds drift away. The sky is a moving garden.

—Mitchell Hegman