leaf green

After a light rain.

"Oh earth, you're too beautiful for anyone to realize."

~ Patricia Lyons Simon Newman 2013

pearls

This morning I failed to notice the pearl-gray moment just before sunrise when everything lightens; failed also to find bird song under the grinding of garbage trucks, and later, walking through woods, to stop thinking, thinking, for even five consecutive steps. Then there was the failure to name the exact shade of blue overhead, not sapphire, not azure, not delft, to savor the soft squelch of pine needles underfoot. Later I found the fork raised halfway to my mouth while I was still chewing the last untasted bite, and so it went, until finally, wading into sleep's thick undertow, I felt myself drift from dream to dream, forever failing to comprehend where I am falling from or to: this blurred life with only moments caught in attention's loose sieve - tiny pearls fished out of oblivion's sea, laid out here as offering or apology or thank you ~ Alison Luterman, Because These Failures Are My Job

tropical escape

Sansevieria trifasciata

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

muriel's birthday

Fuji chrysanthemums @ ladies' lunch out. So very ... Martha

second scene

Things seen while walking in a woodland garden. A creamy white rose from a wedding bouquet, and old wooden window frames for hanging in the trees.

capturing light

Capturing the light reflected in an antique mirror at Kw'o:Kw'e:hala. I just happened by, in a moment of time that you now see. Like the mysterious writer of a lovely letter M.

"The principal person in a picture is light." Edouard Manet