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Thoughts about the beauty of life

What do you see?

Everywhere I look I see a haze of green emerging on trees and bushes. It’s the time of year when I can’t stop looking and asking myself What do you see? Everything is changing quickly Read more…

Consider These Miracles

It’s mid-April and spring is rapidly creating new life all around us. The spring ephemerals are hurriedly blossoming before the trees unfurl their myriad of leaves and the world once again turns green. Consider These Read more…

Wildflower Wonder

Thursday morning I went looking to see what might be in bloom at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. And I found even more than I had expected! What wonderful Wildflower Wonder I felt as I explored Read more…

Unexpected Visitors

Last evening while we were eating supper I looked out the window and noticed a pair of ducks swimming and diving in the pond. I left our dinner table and picked up my binoculars to Read more…

Photo Assignment

In the photography classes that I teach I give a Photo Assignment each week to the students in my class. In our last class I chose an assignment that I found in Bryan Peterson’s book Read more…

Pond Life

As we move into April I’m seeing more and more Pond Life appearing and emerging in the pond behind our house. For the past week we’ve had visitations of wood ducks in the pond in Read more…