For many the Winter Solstice—the shortest day/longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere—has disappeared in a blur of bright street lights, television, and little screens we carry around.…
Seeing ice form is one of the great delights of my life. Not only understanding why and where it forms on a small stream this time of year but also…
Since I began this post about planning our new show at the Wood Art Gallery in January, several things have happened. First, a foot of beautiful snow has fallen—so much…
I’ll soon be mounting a new show with my f/7 group—six other local photographers I’ve been working with for the past several years—at our local TW Wood Gallery. It is…
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…
Still Learning To See 