The view outside my windows today is A Snowy Day Reverie Everything is covered with a thick layer of wet snow and the snow keeps coming down. It hasn’t stopped the birds from coming to the feeder or the squirrels from coming to check out the ground beneath the feeders. Read more…
This morning I read several beautiful essays and articles in Orion Magazine. One that particularly moved me was For As Many Days as We Have Left. It tells a love story but also deals with living in a time of climate change. It echoes many thoughts I have had Read more…
Every year near the end of the year I pick my favorite 12 photos of the year. This year I am struggling to narrow the number of photos down to twelve. I also noticed how many bird photos were in my top picks for the year, too many, it seems, Read more…
December is a good month to celebrate the light. With short daylight hours, seasonal displays of colored lights at night are delightful to look at. And because of the shortness of the days, the late sunrises make it easy to study the early morning light. The word photography literally means Read more…
I headed down to Medicine Lake with my Canon camera and long lens this morning and photographed some of the remaining trumpeter swans in the falling snow. Swans and Falling Snow Watching the swans calmly feeding and grooming themselves as snow gently fell reminded me that these birds are Read more…