These gray days we keep having weigh down my spirit and make me feel like this is a good Time to Be Slow to relax and replenish. No need for to-do lists or busyness. Better to lie low and curl up with a good book. This quiet in-between time is Read more…
This first week of 2024 has been a quiet one for me. I’ve spent a lot of time beginning to plan the Flower Power workshop that I’m teaching at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts in late February. Every time I teach another photography class I discover the need to Read more…
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 Read more…
Today I’m celebrating the fact that The Swans are Back on Medicine Lake. Though not as many as I saw last year, there are several families of Trumpeter Swans, gulls galore, and lots and lots of migrating ducks and Canada Geese on the lake right now. I first saw them Read more…
I greeted the morning on this cloudy Sunday by noticing the Amazing Glow of the sugar maple tree that I could see out my kitchen window. Though it glows every fall and this year’s glow is less vivid than other years, it still makes my heart leap to see it’s Read more…