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Winter Hours

I awoke this morning to behold a frost covered lawn. Soon I expect to wake to find a snow-covered lawn. This is Minnesota after all and the winter snow queen  will arrive sooner or later. Meanwhile the Winter Hours march on minute by minute, day by day. The trees sleep and wait for spring, and many plants and animals also take a long winter sleep. Still, I found beauty in the frosty scenes I beheld this morning and I am sure I will find beauty when snow blankets the land. For me winter is often a time of hunkering down, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Tree Medicine

Yesterday I took myself and my camera out to a small area filled with trees that I had noticed several months ago. It wasn’t a big forest but I found the presence of this little forest quite beautiful. You might say there was nothing special about these trees, but to me they are Tree Medicine for the soul. Spending time among the trees fills me with joy. I feel the benevolence of trees whenever I am with them. It’s such an unusual year to be able to make a photograph like this in late December in Minnesota and not see Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Winter Photography Class Starts Next Week

I finished teaching the fall Making Photographs class at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts last Wednesday. The Winter Photography Class Starts Next Week on Wednesday, January 3. There’s still time to register for this 8-week class. Though the catalog contains a very general description of the class, my plan is to introduce students to the work of different types photographers each week, share and talk about class members’ photographs, and address topics that I think will help the individuals in the class grow and learn as photographers. The class will include one field trip and each week there will Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Foggy Christmas Morning

This morning because it was a Foggy Christmas Morning I gathered my camera and coat and headed to West Medicine Lake park to photograph the fog. The number of people out and about in the park on Christmas morning surprised me. There were lots of dog walkers, runners, mallards in the creek beside the lake, and glorious fog everywhere I looked. Looking across the lake was like looking at a soft white curtain. I could see nothing except the fog. The beauty of the soft landscape all around was inspiring. Many of the people out running or walking their dogs Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Joy and Wonder, Life and Love

Wishing you Joy and Wonder, Life and Love this holiday season We have once again stepped through the longest night of the year and now ever so slowly the light returns. For those who are grieving and lost may you find comfort in the growing light, may the dark sorrows lessen with each breath, and may you see the world once again through eyes of wonder and gratitude. To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago