When, in a single volume, verses of power and insight are joined with photographic images of striking natural beauty, the combination is a rare gift for reflection and enjoyment. How better to celebrate Creation in its varied forms! Lois Parker Edstrom, a retired nurse, is the author of two chapbooks and five full length collections of poetry, the most recent The Lesson of Plums, MoonPath Press, 2020. Her poetry has been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac and featured in American Life in Poetry. Edstrom's career in nursing and her poetic passion coalesced when one of her poems appeared in Poems in the Waiting Room, a publication furnished to hospitals and doctors' offices in New Zealand. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, been translated into Braille, and adapted to dance. She lives with her husband on Whidbey Island, an island off the west coast of the United States. Emily Gibson is a photographer, writer and family physician who farms with her husband in northwest Washington State. She chronicles their farm life with words and pictures on her Barnstorming blog at barnstormingblog and has been a frequent contributor to Country Magazine as well as Ann Voskamp's Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend at aholyexperiencedotcom