It feels to me like time suddenly sped up. The first week of August has come and gone already! We have reached the Turning Point of the summer season and are moving from the height of summer towards the beginning of fall. I can no longer pretend that summer will Read more…
It’s August and everywhere I look I see Bright Days filled with late summer flowers and plenty of green all around despite the drought in Minnesota. Coneflowers, black eyed susans, dahlias, and lilies are in glorious full bloom right now. And they are thriving despite the heat and humidity (or Read more…
There are days when listening to the news is too much for me. Talk about feeling like we are living in apocalyptic times—seeing and hearing about record heat waves, poor air quality, fires, drought, war, famine, floods and senseless shootings—is overwhelming. The drumbeat of doom goes on and on. At Read more…
I saw these daisies on my walk this morning and thought that today I would share Two Photos and a Poem About Daisies with you today. Daisies It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and Read more…
The cool sunny weather on Sunday was delightful. But the wind made it difficult to make photographs outside. So I decided to use the wind to create some intentional camera movement photos (ICM). Instead of waiting for the wind to stop I wanted my camera to Show Me the Wind. Read more…