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Backyard and Neighborhood

With this string of gorgeous days filled with sunshine and mild weather I have been going out with my camera every day, sometimes multiple times per day. It feels like there is beauty everywhere I look. I see so much beauty, in my own Backyard and Neighborhood Last night I went for a short walk after supper carrying only my phone with me. The slant of evening light in the park beside the pond was so beautiful that I played with intentional camera movement and more using my phone camera. This morning the wood ducks and mallard ducks were lazing Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Enchantment and Magic All Around

As I gaze at the beauty of this season I feel a sense of Enchantment and Magic All Around me. The unfolding green leaves on all the trees amaze me with their profusion and perfection. Crab apple blossom petals carpet the grass under crab apple trees already. A mallard duck and her ducklings are regular visitors in the grass at the edge of the pond behind our house. My mind says, “Too soon they are gone,” but my heart knows that the magic of this season is brief. Enchantment came so easily to me as a child, but I wrongly Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Visiting Camelot

This week I learned of a Plymouth park that is only 3 miles from our house. So I headed over one evening this week with my camera. Though it’s a small park, this time of year, with all of the new greens and blooming trees it felt like Visiting Camelot, and it is indeed Camelot. The park is called Lake Camelot Park. Lake Camelot is actually more of a wetlands than a lake with a maximum depth of four and one half feet. But it is home to a lot of wildlife including a pair of trumpeter swans with a Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

How Does It Feel?

This is my favorite time of year. I find myself wanting to slow down time so that I can savor this season of new life, vivid colors, beautiful flowering, and delicious scents. But I cannot slow down time. So instead I go out with my camera and make photographs always asking myself How does it feel? My goal is to create images that express answers to that question. Some of those answers might be that it feels… exuberant effervescent sparkly alive soft and dreamy bursting with energy going so quickly that it’s all a blur gentle and soft too short Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Life is a Gift

Yesterday was the most amazingly beautiful day! In the early morning I spent time at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum photographing the tulips and wildflowers. Then I came home and edited the photos I had just made and did my weekly Soma Yoga class (live online). In the afternoon I re-connected with a longtime ago next-door neighbor who has become interested in pursuing photography. It was a beautiful day that reminded me that Life is a Gift! I love this short season of spring blossoms so much! Springtime feels like such a time of expansion and growth. Wildflowers are in bloom, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago