Each morning when I wake up, I open the bedroom shades and look out at the Morning Light on the Pond seeing whether the day will be bright or cloudy, windy or still. Some mornings the view is so gorgeous that I head out to the living room in my 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…
“We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time Read more…
Last week we took a trip to central Nebraska to witness one of nature’s wonders—the spring migration of the sandhill cranes. Sandhill cranes migrate south to spend winters in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. Every year between late February and mid-April thousands (more than 205,000 at the Read more…
Magical Mornings Some mornings, just before sunrise, the sky near the horizon turns orange-red and the clouds look purple in the distance. I don’t know enough about the weather to predict when a sunrise will be spectacular and when it will be ho-hum, but either way it is worth it Read more…