When I told my family in Virginia that for my birthday I chose to go walking along the seashore, many responded with horror. “Wasn’t it cold?” they asked. “Yes,” I said, “and windy too. So I had to keep my head down.” And this is what I saw.
Posts Tagged ‘light’
in the eye of the driftwood and …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beach, colors, driftwood, Inspiration, landscape, light, nature, nature photography, Revere Beach, sea, seashore, shells, water on December 12, 2012| 8 Comments »
Fading Light
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Belle Isle Marsh, colors, Inspiration, landscape, light, nature, nature photography, salt marsh on December 10, 2012| 7 Comments »
virginia leaves
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged colors, digital photography, home, Inspiration, landscape, leaves, light, nature, nature photography, Virginia on November 26, 2012| 4 Comments »
When I return to Virginia, I am always surprised in a wondrous way by the beauty of the light falling upon the landscape. It is different than the light that inspires me here in New England. At some point I must sit and write about those lights, but until then I will simply share this picture taken while visiting with family. For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you had a good holiday.
steve’s kitchen in autumn
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged colors, food, food photography, gardening, herbs, home, Inspiration, kitchens, light, nature, plants, relationships, sage on November 12, 2012| 4 Comments »
I have written of Steve’s kitchen quite often and in various ways, from the dishes he prepares to the memories evoked by his simple act of making coffee. This autumn, I have found that even with that cup of coffee in hand, I like to sit in the quiet of his warming kitchen. Like ritual, I watch the remaining leaves on the towering oak tree flutter in a morning breeze, and then … it happens. I look across the table at Steve and I say, “The sun is coming around the corner on its sled.” He says, “Mmmmhmm.”
It does not flood the room, this autumn light. It moves slowly like honey or light maple syrup across a plate. My favorite part? How light pours upon the pot of sage.
It soaks into dusty leaves, alive and dead, and runs along unruly stems.
Truth be told, there are other herbs in the room, on the same little table, buckets of basil, rosemary stalks and more. But my favorite sight in the morning light, this autumn so far anyway, remains the sage …
…even when its leaves are not green.
on the bedside table
Posted in Inspiration, tagged digital photography, family, home, Inspiration, light, nature, shells on November 7, 2012| 4 Comments »
Odd items, I suppose, a tiny scrapbook of family pictures, the remains of my first and probably last attempt at eating escargot and a blade of grass picked up on the way home.
dusk reflected in the waters
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged art, beauty, colors, darkness, Inspiration, landscape, light, Middlesex Fells, nature, nature photography, reflections, trees, water on November 6, 2012| 2 Comments »
the dense blue of early evening
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged beauty, colors, Inspiration, landscape, leaves, light, Middlesex Fells, musings, nature, nature photography, trees, water on November 5, 2012| 8 Comments »
drifting down
covering the mostly naked branches of trees in the Middlesex Fells
mostly naked I say because up high leaves still bathed in the fading light
until even that light disappeared and all that remained was a transient glimmer of gold in the air
and a dusting of dark rose upon the land
moths fly toward the light …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, butterflies, colors, digital photography, insects, Inspiration, light, monotype, musings, nature on November 4, 2012| 2 Comments »
caught in this morning’s light …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged autumn, butterflies, colors, digital photography, flowers, Inspiration, leaves, light, nature, trees, water on October 31, 2012| 3 Comments »
… butterflies in a mobile that a friend gave to me several years ago,
dried flowers disintegrating at a wonderfully slow pace,
oak leaves shining like jewels in a coronet,
and water dissipating on a window pane.
in the fading light
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged floral photography, flower, Inspiration, light, monotype, nature, petals on October 25, 2012| 3 Comments »
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