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.