The photography group I meet with regularly likes assignments! So last month we agreed to illustrate a poem of our choice with seven of our photographs. Mine, “Winter Trees” by…
With the sun lower in the sky, the shadows, even at mid-day, stretch long and seem more intense. I find these days—sometimes rare in often rainy November—to be delightful for…
I love this month of dark changes and contrasts, small bits of color, and getting ready for winter. In the late afternoon yesterday clouds billowed over Hubbard Park as the…
I remember in a forestry class learning about students weighing all the leaves on a tree but I don’t think I ever heard anyone estimate what the total weight of…
Several weeks ago I accepted a challenge from a photographer friend to make a B&W photograph every day. I rarely work in B&W, do not have an eye for seeing…
A crazy foliage season this year here in Vermont. Dry, dry, dry. Many trees, especially Sugar Maples, just turned brown and lost their leaves. But across Central Vermont there are…
Wildfowl decoys have long been made and collected and, thankfully, appreciated for the art they are. Knowing they had a function and were created for that by hands that knew…
The profile of Camel’s Hump is part of everyday life in Central Vermont, no matter at sunset (shown above from November 2006), moonrise, new snow or glorious fall foliage. Yesterday…
In the real world there is balance—night and day, winter and summer, life and death—that has allowed this living planet to become the blue jewel we now know floats in…
Slowly moving water can reflect the sun-drenched tops of tree with endless and stunning variation. When that water is a small stream trickling sound and magic over a hundred ledges…
Still Learning To See 