This photograph of green ferns just hollered to be posted today, after yesterday’s red leaf. Sorry. Making the fern photograph was a wonderfully surprising experience. We have a number of…
As I look for new ways to see Fall in Vermont, I need to remember the small details. There are so many gems waiting for me to look more closely.…
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…
Last Tuesday I wrote about how I’d dug up all the ferns I was so fond of photographing. The next day, on a hike to Chickering Bog, I found a…
Back in Vermont and the many greens of Spring have changed to a seamless expanse of Summer green covering mountains and hills. The fact that it seems to be a…
I too often use the word “unbelievable.” Today proves I should have reserved it only for special occasions. The temperature in the sun was in the 70s, too warm for…
My friend, Rob, and I walked up above Berlin Pond today, bright and sunny and too warm for even a light jacket. The paths were glare ice so we left…
Another lesson I learned, in a workshop I did long ago with John Shaw, has been to just put myself outside walking and enjoying. The light will often not be…
I spent many hours as a child chasing butterflies. I’m afraid many of them ended up chloroformed and pinned into a butterfly collection in the “museum” my brother and I…
Lovely being back in Vermont today, even if it was 7F this morning and gray all day, a challenge after a week in warmer, sunnier North Carolina. A long walk…
