Posts Tagged ‘seasons’
New Growth in Red & Green
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged Cambridge, Charles River, nature, new growth, Photography, seasons, spring on April 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Green, Please!
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged flowers, leaves, Photography, seasons on March 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
Well, I’ve just learned we have more snow coming up here in New England. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy a lovely flake as much as anybody, but I am ready for some green and warmth. To help tide me over until the seasons really do change, I’ve pulled the following photos from my archives. These were taken during a walk in a Cambridge park.
I whine but of course I know spring is here. During a recent walk in my neighborhood, just a few days ago, I saw plenty of things sprouting on trees and springing from the earth. Fragile but tough, I expect they’ll survive the snow.
2 Books Inspiring Me This Week
Posted in Books I Love, Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Blexbolex, colors, graphic design, Mary Oliver, seasons, Swan, visual art on January 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Well, one benefit of three major snowstorms in a row is that I’ve spent a lot of time indoors catching up on my reading.
One of my favorite finds is Seasons by French artist Blexbolex. The interior of the book is lovely, but it is in the exterior cover image that I lose myself.
It is categorized as a picture book for children, of silkscreen art depicting life and nature throughout the seasons, but I think many adults would find it fascinating as well. Given the pink font inside, and the pink on the cover, maybe Blexbolex’s book spurred my current interest in pink!
“The leaf has a song in it.” For that line alone, from the poem What Can I say, I am grateful to Mary Oliver.
Each poem in the slim volume is thought-provoking and insightful about Oliver as an individual, as well as about humanity. She inspires the writer in me as well as the photographer.
One day I’d like to do a series of photographs inspired by her poetry. This is what I wrote about my first encounter with Mary Oliver back in 2006.
Autumn Descending
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged autumn, Cambridge, colors, Harvard Square, leaves, Massachusetts, Photography, seasons on November 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Loveliness
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged flowering, Galway Kinnel, Photography, plants, poetry, seasons, sow on September 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
“… everything flowers
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely …”
— excerpt from Galway Kinnel’s Saint Francis and the Sow
Autumn Light in Sepia
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged clouds, color, Photography, seasons on September 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Words + Images 