Honestly, this week I needed a break from seeing the world through a viewfinder. That, three weeks of 18+ hour days traveling in Alaska and the task, even if anticipated,…
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…
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…
Around the time Liz and I were married 40 years ago, hundreds of Pink Lady Slipper (Cypripedium acaule)flowers bloomed in the woods around our house. When I saw this one…
Another stunning piece of Dale Chihuly’s glass set against the clouds over Kew Gardens. What an inspiration it is to see work that is so beyond imagining.
I’ve recently made a delightful, new friend. Earl is 10 years old. He is also crazy about trees and wants to know everything there is to know about them. What…
Still Learning To See 