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