Good Tuesday morning.
In my new novel "Coronado's Gold," due to be released by Feb. 20, by Tuesday morning the boys are well on their way deep into Lost Canyon. They are in blue spruce and quaking aspen country now. They wake up to blue skies, catch a mess of brook trout for breakfast and Cliff sees his favorite wild flower, the Colorado Blue Columbine.
He sees not only the beauty of the columbine, but more. It has become a metaphor of his life and relationships.
Earlier, as a young boy he had been told wild columbines couldn't survive if he tried to transplant them, but he did it anyway.
Through his patience and tending he eventually had a wild garden of columbines, flags, strawberries, lupine and other mountain wildflowers that came back each spring and bloomed profusely. But it had taken him several patient years to get them there.
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