
While I wish this far into April that the trees had more leaves on their branches, they do present a beautiful silhouette as the sun sets against a blue and white sky.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Branches, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on April 21, 2018| 2 Comments »

While I wish this far into April that the trees had more leaves on their branches, they do present a beautiful silhouette as the sun sets against a blue and white sky.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, flowers, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on April 19, 2018| 1 Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Charles River, Inspiration, National Poetry Month, nature, Photography, poetry, rivers, urban landscape on April 12, 2018| 1 Comment »

It was a windy day when I recently walked along the Charles River. The river itself did not move very fast. The water was low and though it be mid-April, all around were the dead leaves of the previous seasons. Only a few daffodils brightened the shore. I decided to work with what I had and so I photographed the leaves in their watery haunt. Most of the images didn’t come out, at least to my liking, but this one seemed rather poetic to me.
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Inspiration, nature, nature photography, Photography, urban landscape on April 12, 2018| 1 Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged birds, Inspiration, nature, nature photography, Photography, urban landscape on April 11, 2018| 4 Comments »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged cemeteries, Inspiration, Photography, sculpture, strange beauty, urban landscape on April 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Worn by weather, and the occasional falling tree branch, the statues in Mount Auburn Cemetery always seem to be changing … a slow change… but change nonetheless.


Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged colors, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on April 2, 2018| 1 Comment »

A gentle snow falls so that white now covers these colors I saw yesterday at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.



Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on March 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, birds, birds of prey, hawks, Inspiration, nature, Photography, urban landscape on February 22, 2018| 7 Comments »

I glanced out the window and saw something drifting down from the sky. At first I thought them the biggest snow flakes I’d ever seen.But when I went to the window I saw that they were in fact feathers. I looked up and around, and there it was on top of a nearby utility pole, a hawk feeding on its kill.

As I tried to focus my camera around the oak tree branches … thank goodness, they are still bare … the hawk stopped feeding, spread its wings and flew away only to be immediately replaced by another hawk. A mating pair perhaps.

These were large birds but it was not a sunny day so perhaps their outstretched wings which seemed so large to me cast no shadows down below and that’s why all the people standing on the sidewalk below the pole never noticed nature at work above them.

Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, birds, Branches, hope, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape on February 21, 2018| 3 Comments »

I am indeed perplexed by this world today – the ugliness, the violence, the pettiness, and the thoughtlessness – but I do find serenity in the woods.

three birds amidst the berries
Even as I compose this post I hear birds around me in the cityscape and so …

red and gold
… I think I shall rise to go outside with my camera and see what birds in city branches I might capture on this beautiful day.

sparrow in the berries
These birds, berries and branches were photographed this past weekend in parks located in Boston, Newton and Saugus.