Archive for the ‘Branches’ Category
and this too is ice upon the window
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, dispersion, ice, imagination, Inspiration, light, nature, pastels, Photography, rainbow, seasons, water, windows, winter on January 8, 2015| 3 Comments »
one of these three …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, Publication Updates, tagged art, colors, creative works, Inspiration, literary magazines, nature, Photography, posters, sky, Somerville, sunset on January 6, 2015| 5 Comments »
One of the challenges I set for myself at the end of last year was to practice what I was preaching which was encouraging other people to submit their creative works to literary and commercial publications. Towards that end, I submitted three images of a Somerville sunset to the online literary magazine, The Critical Pass. I was honored that one of the images was selected to appear in the current issue, viewable via this link. While, if you choose, you can easily discover which of these three images was selected, I hope you’ll have time to browse the other works in this issue, as well, from the thoughtful Letter from the Editor to a wonderful interview with a 15-year old poet (pp. 18-20).
FYI, each of these images is available in my Zazzle Shop here, here and here.
and then of course there are those days …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, Inspiration, nature, perspective, Photography, views, windows on December 22, 2014| 2 Comments »
when I focus on the wonderfully altered views. Heavy rains are coming with strong winds so I expect future views will change quite a bit.
flight
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, birds, Branches, flight, Inspiration, monotype, nature, Photography, reflection, urban landscape on December 18, 2014| 2 Comments »
I was standing by the window waiting for them all to take flight and so I nearly missed the one that did.
oregano in the hallway and …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged african violet, beauty, colors, food, herbs, indoor gardening, Inspiration, musings, oregano, Photography, plants, textures on December 15, 2014| 3 Comments »
Some folks think I yearn for a big field to garden, but I don’t. I enjoy my few clay pots and random mugs filled with dirt, tucked in all sorts of corners and moved about as my whim and the sun does strike.
It has been fun this year to grow flowers, herbs and the occasional vegetable. The trailing green growth and splashes of color have been inspiring, as well as occasionally quite tasty. Most of the herbs have died back or faded away completely with a few exceptions like the oregano.
I planted a few new seeds on Saturday. Spicy cress, fenugreek and more nasturtium. The fenugreek has already started to sprout. Perhaps I’ll be able to harvest it for Christmas. On Sunday I picked up some paperwhite bulbs with a goal to plant them in January and perhaps soon after photograph white winter blooms against a backdrop of falling snow. Until then, I have these herbs and, oh yes, that violet.
in the dying of the light
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged abstract, autumn, Branches, Brooks Estate, colors, Inspiration, landscape, leaves, light, Medford, nature, Photography, reflection, shadow, walking on December 9, 2014| 1 Comment »
Cliche but that’s what it was. These images were taken in the dying of the light, as we exited the Brooks Estate.
water and reflections in the woods
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged autumn, beauty, Branches, Brooks Estate, colors, Inspiration, landscape, leaves, Medford, reflections, seasons, water on December 8, 2014| 5 Comments »
tree branches
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged Brooks Estate, colors, hiking, Inspiration, landscape, light, nature, Photography, shadows, silhouette, walking on December 8, 2014| 6 Comments »
orange mint in the hallway
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged Branches, colors, food photography, herbs, Inspiration, mint, orange mint, Photography on December 4, 2014| 3 Comments »
one window, many views
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, city gardening, colors, gardening, glass, impressions, Inspiration, musings, nature, Photography, reflection, Somerville, storytelling, trees, urban landscape, windows on November 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The tree I photograph most often through the rippled window is dead. The greenery and blooms captured throughout the seasons are mostly from vines like forsythia, ivy and something holly-like. With each storm, more of the tree falls to the ground, whole branches and bits of bark.
For safety’s sake, at some point soon, whoever owns that particular piece of ground will have to chop that tree down. The woodpeckers will certainly miss their perch and the insects that they dine upon will miss their home. The vines I suspect will continue to thrive.
Even cut off at the base, they always seem to come back, finding new objects to drape upon. And the moss is ever present.
Adjacent is the neighbor’s garden. He did quite well his first season with a multi-tiered, lush affair of eggplant and kale, tomatoes and cauliflower.
I expect he grew potatoes, too, like me. And I know for sure I saw the green beans climbing up their strings.
As December looms, all that’s left are the relics of dark greens and tomatoes that I guess the city rabbits and city squirrels couldn’t figure out how to get.
There is the chain link fence but that doesn’t prevent his cat from getting out so I’d think that wouldn’t prevent other animals from getting in. If I do my local Open Studios next year, perhaps I will focus on prints of scenes through the rippled glass.
One window, many views. We’ll see. Ideas are easy. It is the follow-through that’s hard. FYI, these are untouched photos of views in this early morning’s light.
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