Why is it so easy to think about what has been or what might be and forget to just be here now?! Recently while waiting for friends, I had a…
“If it was any closer, it would bite you!” was something I heard from my mom on occasion. I also credit her with helping me develop my seeing, including when…
One of the things I noticed about myself on my annual Fall foliage trip to Cady’s Falls this year was that I’m slowing down. Not all bad! More time to…
I enjoy the part of life that circles back around, like new ice in the early winter, or the first hummingbird to show up, the way the moon is so…
I can say it is the morning valley fog or intermittent rain that keeps me at this keyboard, barely looking out the window, but the truth is I have, of…
September, a month when it is easy to look back to summer and ahead to winter. Also a great time to simply be here and now, slowing down, enjoying this…
Those who visit here know I love trees—touching them, learning about them, planting them, and, of course, photographing them—not, by the way, an easy task. I recently had a chance…
I’ve had a great deal of fun—and learned a lot—lately by digging in my archives, all 100,000+ images. Many, of course, are destined for “delete,” but it has been great…
The sun-powered rush to grow, bloom and reproduce is under full steam now with wave after wave of plants hoisting their flowers up to the wind and/or the pollinators and…
In a world that too often seems to only be depressing—at least until I remember it is actually humans and our news that does the deed rather than the whole…
Still Learning To See 