I love growing Hostas (Hostaceae) and seeing the endless variety of shades, tones and shapes they come in as well as the many ways light plays with them.
…are so often magical, as was this one we watched over the weekend.
Last week Liz and I enjoyed a trip to the Hood Museum of Art. Among the exhibits we saw was a wonderful collection of work related to “grids.” It was…
Long ago I did a workshop with John Shaw, one of the great “nature photographers,” and learned so much in such a short time. When viewing a sunset he recommended…
Every day I enjoy seeing this photograph, one I literally snapped out of an airplane over the Southeast coast of Florida as I was headed back home. I was amazed,…
On our walk this week we stopped at a small graveyard, Peck Cemetery, now in a corn field, surrounded by a “chain” (now plastic) fence. We enjoyed reading the gravestone names and…
We reached the 90s today, and humid, but who can argue with it?! It doesn’t last long. And today is the longest of days, the Summer Solstice. There are also…
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…
Still Learning To See 