Nighttime temperatures have begun to dip below 50F, even when daytime temperatures will be in the 80s and 90s next week. It is that time of year when the sun drifts lower and lower in the sky, the gorgeous shadows it makes are beginning to lengthen, the light is fabulous, and, of course, we see and hear kids off to school weekday mornings.

Soon ice will make a showing, probably first as a frost and then a thin film of crystals on puddles and birdbaths, and then, a few flakes of snow by the end of October, and a month or two later ponds begin to freeze up. I don’t want to rush things, but I always look forward to seeing and photographing ice.

In the meantime, I’m thrilled to say up to twenty of my ice photographs will be shown at the prestigious, annual Art at the Kent show coming up September 8 through October 8. The venue is a famous, 200-year old stagecoach inn in Calais and the work of twenty artists will be melded together—miraculously—in two dozen or so rooms, all with different, but all old, wall surfaces. The theme this year is “Traces: Vermont Artists Explore the Elemental.” My ice photographs fit right in!

I’ll share a few here, but only to tempt you to come to see them—and all the other great art—in the show.

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