On a pedestal

On August 23, 2013 By Mike and Christy6 Comments

On a pedestal

Where there are rocks there is life.

Wiggly World

On May 31, 2013June 4, 2013 By Mike and Christy6 Comments

Wiggly World

When humans want to have fun we don’t create things that just get us from point A to point B in the shortest time we make things that wiggle and are full of surprises. To paraphrase Alan Watts the universe is wiggly so we might as well wiggle with it.

Cliff Top

On May 21, 2013May 21, 2013 By Mike and ChristyLeave a comment

Cliff Top

When upside down feels right side up.

First Green and Sparrow

On April 26, 2013May 10, 2013 By Mike and Christy2 Comments

First Green and Sparrow
This years it seems all of our April showers have been of the snow variety but the leaves are finally making there way out of the buds and this sparrow seems to be quite content as well.

Has a Boss

On April 22, 2013April 22, 2013 By Mike and Christy6 Comments

Has a Boss

We can easily recognize that this has a boss…humans.
This panoramic pinhole is one of many versions of the same type of city scene I repeatedly photograph year after year always with a feeling of how unnatural and repulsive the scene of tangled wires and mid-seventies cityscape is. I always ask why? Why photograph this mess? Does this scene provide a needed contrast in my brain so that I can recognize the beauty provided by the natural world? Experience and modern research suggests that the power of what we call the natural world or nature is innate. It is time we stop believing there are two worlds, the natural and the man made, and realize they are one and the same. Get out and enjoy nature.

Believing….is more than seeing

On April 12, 2013April 12, 2013 By Mike and Christy2 Comments

Believing....more than seeing

The weekend is here and none to soon. Time to get out and reverse the weekly nature deficit that seems to accumulate each week.

Rock, Snow, Sky

On April 3, 2013April 3, 2013 By Mike and Christy2 Comments

Rock, Snow, Sky

If we make time to see we will find that black and white and isolation are mere thoughts, sometimes useful, but not always real.

Frost-flowers and bud.

On March 25, 2013March 25, 2013 By Mike and Christy4 Comments

Frost-flowers and bud.

After a stormy and snowy Saturday we went out to observe the cormorants nest building yesterday morning and were greeted by beautiful layer of hoar frost on the plants circling the lake. It was very delicate and ephemeral. The slightest breeze lifted it off the plants and within half an hour it was gone. Things that don’t last last the longest.