To those of you who celebrate Christmas, I send my best wishes for a special day with family. Amidst all that has come to be piled on top of the…
Along the margins of the woods, the trees reach out to the sun. On a winter day it is the perfect place for snow to lay.
Yesterday I wrote about Mother Earth. My birth mother would be 103 today if she were still alive. As it was, she lived to be nearly 96, dying shortly after…
Thanks to Writer’s Almanac for reminding us that today marks the anniversary of the day in 1972 when astronauts in the spacecraft Apollo 17 made the images of the planet,…
Just two more weeks to the Solstice. It’s been snowing all day long, making for a very gray day. Not all are like this, of course, even if it may feel…
I use Wikipedia nearly every day, and every single day I help pay for it with a small recurring contribution that is not only painless but actually gratifying to make. Why bother?…
A bit of slowly moving water, a branch bare of leaves and I’m lost, mesmerized by the reflections.
As our part of the earth looks away from the sun—a month to the Solstice—we really know it here in Vermont. Even if today is dark and rainy and feels more…
Last summer I had a show entitled “I nearly walked by…” Thirty-two photographs showed moments I nearly missed because I was somewhere other than in the present moment. One of the…
My friend Alan asked me “What happened to the Ginkgo?” Somehow I forgot to post the photographs of the 125-year old tree this year as it turned an amazing shade…
Still Learning To See 