Ducklings and Lilacs Saturday we saw the first ducklings of the year in our pond. The mama mallard looked somewhat confused and dazed by her 6 darting ducklings. I never was able to get a photo of all 6 ducklings in a single frame. They moved too fast! There Read more…
On a recent morning I looked out my bedroom window and saw a Canadian goose standing on the lawn, 3 mallards lazing on the banks of the pond, 2 wood ducks resting near a log at the edge of the pond, wonderful tree reflections in the pond, and a crow Read more…
As I joyfully take in these early spring days and all the beauty that surrounds me I wonder, “Why is the world so beautiful?” This is a question rarely addressed by science, but a question well worth embracing. In beauty I walk. With beauty before me, I walk. With beauty Read more…
I am greeting the arrival of spring in Minnesota with great joy. Bathing in Beauty From a distance the landscape looks like a mist of spring green. The weeping willow trees are draped in a veil of yellow-green and tiny plants and flowers are beginning to bloom. It makes me Read more…
As I spent time working on photographs recently while recovering from still another illness, I recognized a longing to say more in my photographs, to connect more deeply with my photographic subjects, to share my sense of “the full catastrophe” of life. Last week I had the great gift of Read more…