The week has again been full to overflowing. Rob and I’ve worked hard to mount a window display in the local frame shop, the Drawing Board, and learned so much in the process. Part of the display is a large monitor with several hundred of our photographs rolling at random as a slide show. I realized, for all the times I’ve been out photographing and hiking with him, I’d not seen much of Rob’s recent work. We enjoyed collaborating on this project and connecting the dots of making photographs with having people see and enjoy them.
A lovely family of Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis), one of the first blooms of Spring in a Maple/Beech woods.The leaves are green all winter and will soon be replaced by new ones.
On Wednesday we hiked Irish Hill up above Berlin Pond with our friend Michael. Among other things, Michael is a fabulous historian, just the person to have along on a hike through old cellar holes and granite quarries all of which we enjoyed discovering and exploring.
Ramps or Wild Leeks (Allium tricoccum) are a treasure, both for their early Spring beauty and their delicious taste. This is a plant that flowers after the leaves have disappeared.
And a south-facing hillside was flush with Spring flowers! At first I only saw one or two and then whole areas of the hillside we covered in blooms. A final delight was seeing a fallow field electrically bright with Red Osier (Cornus sericea).
I've never seen a stand of Osier quite like this, a magical combination of the time of year when the color is intense and the stunning setting of the gray mountains behind.
With luck the clouds will stay put this evening and we’ll even have a peek at the rising full moon. What a week of seeing it has been!
Still Learning To See 