
a buttercup I think
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged buttercup, colors, flowers, green, Inspiration, nature, Photography, ranunculus, urban landscape, yellow on June 6, 2016| 2 Comments »
Posted in Inspiration, tagged birds, ducks, feathers, fowl, hope, Inspiration, mallard, nature, Photography, urban landscape on June 4, 2016| 4 Comments »

I need to write a story about hope for a magazine and, so far, all that comes to mind are feathers. These were floating in the pond in Boston Public Garden yesterday. And so was she …

Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged animals, imagination, Inspiration, oak, Photography, raccoons, trees, urban landscape on June 3, 2016| 1 Comment »
Okay. So I’ve been thinking about this since spring really sprung and the oak that arches over the house finally leafed out. To sit with a big piece of white paper before me. To sketch a rectangle and then crisscross the rectangle with diagonal lines. And then with markers or even paint to place dabs of color on the branches to symbolize what I have seen. Red for the cardinals. Blue for the jays. A swoosh of gray for the squirrels. Yellowish-green for the finches. Black-specked brown for the sparrows. But what shall I do for the raccoon I saw yesterday? 🙂

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abstract, Boston Public Garden, Inspiration, nature, Photography, reflection, trees, urban landscape, water on May 29, 2016| 2 Comments »
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged animals, Boston Public Garden, nature, Photography, squirrel, urban landscape on May 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged blue, Boston Public Garden, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on May 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, Boston Public Garden, nature, Photography, urban landscape, waterfowl on May 27, 2016| 3 Comments »

All are welcome to gather by the water and rest awhile, the mallards and geese, and this colorful fellow, all I expect accept a hawk.


Posted in Branches, Nature Notes, tagged Boston Public Garden, green, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape, willow on May 25, 2016| 3 Comments »


Just light raining down through the leaves of a willow tree in the Boston Public Garden.


Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged green, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, urban landscape on May 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »
One of the cool things about waiting for the street light to change in the city of Boston is that you get to pause and look up and all around, and sometimes you see the sunlight fall in special ways, like on this ivy climbing the walls of a church tower.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, decay, nature, Photography, urban landscape on May 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »