micro-garden

Fragile beauty, rising up from the mist.

The Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol runs an annual competition, The Art of Science, in which research scientists are challenged to look for “aesthetic beauty in their experimental work.” Winning photographs are posted on the University’s website. Shown here: Mould, by Dr. Soloviev.

pale beauty

Hydrangea paniculata in soft morning light

autumn moon garden

"Look down: a river of grass. Look up: a velvet lost
and found. Look inside: no straws to drink that dusk."

from Backyard Georgics, by Lance Larsen
Source: Poetry (November 2010)

through old glass

Turning leaves viewed through circa 1915 vintage window glass.

blue notes No. 1

anemone Honorine Jobert

I am drawn to the ethereal quality and off-center energy of this photograph. An archetype, the garden and the gardener, moving toward the light?

the mind's eye

Converging images from separate events, seen 2 weeks ago in NYC.
1) Photograph by John Dugdale (Rubin Museum, John Dugdale and Oliver Sacks, Talk About Nothing)
2) Painting by Joan Miro (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miro's Dutch Interiors)

autumnal No. 1

Kale in the fall garden

"It takes a calender one damp day to declare fall,
weeks of dying mums to second the motion."

from Backyard Georgics, by Lance Larsen
Source: Poetry (November 2010)

autumn vase

seeing through a new lens
the arc of the daffodil

"So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay" ~ Robert Frost

walking the High Line

Light plays on grass / river / glass in High Line park

Notes on stained glass installation: Inspired by the Hudson River, The River That Flows Both Ways (Spencer Finch) documents a 700 minute journey on the river in a single day. The title is a translation of Muhheakantuck, the Native American name for the Hudson that refers to the river's natural flow in two directions.

On June 12, 2008, from a tugboat drifting on Manhattan's west side and past the High Line, Finch photographed the river's surface once every minute for 700 minutes. The color of each pane of glass was based on a single pixel point in each photograph and arranged chronologically in the steel mullions of the old train tunnel. Time is translated into a grid, reading from left to right and top to bottom, capturing the varied reflective and translucent conditions of the water's surface.

spiritual path

Mount Moran, Wyoming

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral." -Robert Louis Stevenson

water lily

A lily floats, in the midst of searing outdoor temperatures (up to 103 Fahrenheit). The pistil seems to be on fire.



june / louisiana
Sunlight through old glass, warm and cool like a shallow stream.

to see a flower

Inspired by Christopher Brosius, whose scents I have been wearing while working in the garden (to see a flower, under the arbor). Like gardening x two.

spring rain

Tulip hidden among the peonies.

garden lady

It's as though I am seeing / her / for the first time.

winter giving way

Salix discolor, a cutting from the Philadelphia Flower Show,
soft blossoms set aglow

"A light exists in Spring, Not present in the year
at any other period, When March is scarcely here."
- Emily Dickinson

tropical escape

Sansevieria trifasciata

Abstract work, inspired by the placement of plants,
in my modern new work space.

light house

This house is pulsing with energy.

winter light No. 1

Winter Light (Swedish: Nattvardsgästerna) ... scenes from a winter wedding