Lime Creek Odyssey

“Reflecting on Homer's epic, photographer Meyers finds himself more in sympathy with Penelope than with Odysseus. He prefers intimate exploration of familiar places to heroic travel in distant lands; thus he here reveals the essence of his home ground. Meyers has written an extraordinarily sensitive account of one individual's perceptions of and reactions to his surroundings: Lime Creek, a small stream in the heart of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, where he has climbed many of the peaks, waded the streambeds, fished and walked the woods in solitude. Earlier he had been a surveyor on projects that held a threat to the environment, and he ponders on the moral inconsistency in his attitudes toward his work and his love of the land, focusing on his sense of personal responsibility for the natural world about him. Lime Creek represents joy and sorrow (the death of a loved one), but also hope and renewal. Meyers is confident that life will go on there—as it always has.” —Publishers Weekly “Lime Creek Odyssey is a lovely ode to the natural world, very powerful in its simplicity, in its respect for water, air, earth and all other elements. It’s a love poem to the joy of our remaining wild places, and a cautionary tale that we must act quickly to save what we still have. It’s also a sad and beautiful elegy to the passing seasons, to all the inevitable cycles and to the deaths of people we love. To read it is to be renourished and replenished in our souls just as Lime Creek is replenished each springtime by the singing waters of melting snow. The book is perfect in its low-key tone and lack of hysteria; it is quite elegant in all its simple gentleness. By any and all accounts, a work of art to savor.” —John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War