Benedictine Monks

Seen Near Olympia Washington,USA at my most recent event as a vendor of pet products. I was at a festival on the grounds of St.Martins an order of the Benedictine Monks. Most of the visitors were lay people…but I caught these two monks,
..the only ones I saw ,walking past on early Sunday morn before the opening of the festival.

Where the Antelope Roam

The antelope are strange people … they are beautiful to look at, and yet they are tricky. We do not trust them. They appear and disappear; they are like shadows on the plains. Because of their great beauty, young men sometimes follow the antelope and are lost forever. Even if those foolish ones find themselves and return, they are never again right in their heads.
—Pretty Shield,
Medicine Woman of the Crows

Bird of Prey

   

The Eagle

BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.