I’ve chronicled my love of Shad or Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) trees and their flowers and fruit as well as my rivals for the fruit, the local birds. Not many people eat…
There are so many ways to see flowers, especially peony flowers. What a feast of seeing summer is!
Imagine being a bee! I so enjoy diving in and seeing flowers up close, with light both reflected and translucent. Like the bees, I too often come up with a…
Seeing shapes, colors, shadows, textures. Rocks and stones on which lichen live and grow. Imagine the rocks as liquids deep in the Earth millions of years ago. Imagine them tossed and ground…
I love seeing the simple relationships of color, light and dark, textures and shapes that are so common in nature. This Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis) with droplets of rain water…
On a walk this week on part of the Cross Vermont Trail, once a section of the Montpelier & Wells River railroad, we enjoyed branching off to follow several streams. They still…
I’ve shared pictures in the past of the lovely flowers of the Shad or Serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), one of my early Spring favorites. Clearly pollination happened because the trees are…
I first saw the startling flowers of Beaked Hazel (Corylus cornuta) six years ago. The female flowers are the size of a pea and often bloom while the snow is…
I’ve made many photographs of reflections in water and continue to enjoy exploring their endless variations. Summer—with blue skies and white clouds—offers endless opportunity to work along a river bank…
As much as I love winter in Vermont, days like we’ve had this week (70-80 and sunny with clear night skies and morning temperatures in the 50s) are stunningly gorgeous.…
Still Learning To See 