Pete and the Angel
Pete walked along the ancient perimeter road, heading home at the end of a long day. Ahead on the left, a rocky hillside sloped steeply away from the road. Aside from the shale and lava rock surface, it was strewn with occasional boulders. About two-thirds of the way up, a sandstone ledge traversed the face, angled slightly up toward the far end. A scrub juniper tree balanced in one broad crack in the ledge. Yuccas and … Read more