Archive for the ‘Nature Notes’ Category
spots of light in the darkness
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Branches, nature, Photography, sunlight, trees on June 3, 2014| 1 Comment »
an empty bottle at the window
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, glass, green, Inspiration, nature, oak tree, Photography, sake bottle on June 2, 2014| 7 Comments »
For many weeks, I’ve admired its shape at the window, and how the morning and afternoon light fills its form. A beautiful green vessel, for sure, that empty sake bottle. I’m always shifting things about but that bottle I have not moved since placing it at that window. I began to wonder why.
I think it is the layering of the bottle’s illuminated form against the living, shifting greens of the oak tree outside. As the wind blows and the branches shift, bits of blue sky or gray sky are intermittently revealed. The background is constantly in flux. The scene of bottle against tree is a still life always in motion.
And yet even as I celebrate the serendipitous layering of light and color at the kitchen window, I also could not help but wonder what would the scene reveal with the absence of color.
Simply beauty expressed in a different way.
from small beginnings …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged food, gardening, green monster, humor, Inspiration, nature, Photography, potato crop, potatoes, tall windows on June 1, 2014| 5 Comments »
Earlier this spring, I found a little potato sprouting in the pantry drawer. I cut up the potato and planted the sprouts in a big green pot on a table next to several tall windows. Lots of light shines down even through the widening leaves of the oak tree outside. No high hopes for a great potato crop but I did have a wee hope to see just a bit of green poke through the soil. Guess what?
I have in my midst what one friend described as “a lovely green monster” that any moment now is going to shout, “Feed me!”
Are actual potatoes growing beneath the dark soil? Will I grow my first potato crop ever in a big green pot sitting on a sun-drenched table in Somerville, MA? Stay tuned, my friends, stay tuned. 😉
shades of gray
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, clouds, colors, gray, Inspiration, nature, Photography, sky on May 31, 2014| 2 Comments »
gold
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged clouds, colors, gold, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, sky, Somerville, sunset on May 28, 2014| 7 Comments »
sunlit clouds in a somerville sky
a happy trio
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged animals, Inspiration, Mystic River, nature, Photography, rivers, Somerville, turtles, urban landscape, water on May 25, 2014| 4 Comments »
into the mystic
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged abstract, animals, beauty, Inspiration, Mystic River, nature, Photography, rivers, Somerville, swans, urban landscape on May 22, 2014| 6 Comments »
Yesterday, I scrambled down to the water’s edge before realizing that may not have been the smartest move in the shoes I was wearing. Cool Spring winds arose. The temperature dropped. I was freezing. And yet …
it truly felt like the right place to stand, for as long as I could bear, so that I might see the beauty floating by in the Mystic.
in the cubist style?
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged abstract, animals, art, cubism, Inspiration, mallard duck, Mystic River, nature, Photography, Picasso, rivers, Somerville, urban landscape on May 21, 2014| 1 Comment »
Oh, I don’t know but Picasso certainly came to mind as I watched this mallard contort in the blue waters of the Mystic River. A lovely sight. Her partner seemed to enjoy, as well, as he watched from closer to shore.
a single dandelion by the roadside
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, dandelion, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on May 21, 2014| 6 Comments »
a series in the green, and …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, fantasy, GIMP, glass, green, imagination, Inspiration, nature, Photography, spring, spring images, urban landscape on May 20, 2014| 3 Comments »
At the beginning of May, I did a post, spring images through the double rippled glass. Now that May nears its end, and the weather is almost consistently warm, one set of windows has been removed. And guess what? The remaining window is a bit pitted and rippled in places too!
The bright gold forsythia flowers visible in the previous post are gone, but as I recently tried to convince a young friend, even with no flowers, green plants and hanging vines are quite beautiful.
Through the single pane, the morning light seems to shine differently, and the spring winds seem to send the vegetation moving in a different dance. My imagination is still stirred at what’s captured just by pausing for a moment. The following image reminds me of Munch’s The Scream … though in a happier way.
And these images (only the last one altered in GIMP) remind me of those forest portals where reside dragons and other magical folk … though that thought must be influenced by recent viewings of Game of Thrones.
And, if I lift my camera above the spring green, and look up into the sky? This is what I see, through the rippled glass.
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