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Category Archives: photography
The Winter of Our Content
March is here and Spring is around the corner. But I walked slowly and savored winter this morning. That corner will get here soon enough. The bright early sun had yet to get the best of the overnight cold, and … Continue reading
First Snow
This weekend brought us our first significant snowfall of the winter, about a foot waiting for my snowshoes. Here are a few photos from yesterday’s walk, along with an excerpt from the poem First Snow by Mary Oliver who passed … Continue reading
Posted in nature, photography, quotes and excerpts, trees, Uncategorized
Tagged First Snow, Mary Oliver, Snowshoeing
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Bird Inspiration
The birds are singing in the rain about the small pond in front, the inquisitive chickadee that has flown at once to the alders to reconnoitre us, the blackbirds, the song sparrow, telling of expanding buds. Henry David Thoreau, journal … Continue reading
Posted in bird bowls, cherry, finding wood, nature, photography, quotes and excerpts, Uncategorized
Tagged bird bowl, carved bird, cherry wood bird, chickadee
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Autumn Perspective
When I write about trees and birds and the view from a hilltop, I wonder if they are important in the face of elections, and foreign aid, and taxes, and missiles and satellites. Then I know that arguments end, men … Continue reading
Posted in nature, photography, quotes and excerpts, Uncategorized
Tagged canoe, Countryman, Hal Borland
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Going with the Flow
Back in June, I wrote a post about splitting a large maple crook. Here it is again, sitting on a rock in the Little Shenango River. The arch from head through tail follows the grain of the crook, and the … Continue reading
Posted in bird bowls, bowls, finding wood, green woodworking, nature, photography, Uncategorized
Tagged golden retriever, goose bowl, maple bowl
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For Peace Comes Dropping Slow
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow –William Butler Yeats, from The Lake Isle of Inisfree
1974
In 1974, I hadn’t yet learned to read. I didn’t know what I was missing. Two books with a similar theme were published in that year, and they are both gems. Both involve married couples traveling thousands of miles to … Continue reading
Workbench and Photo Studio in One
When it comes to photography, I have no idea what I’m doing. But then my goal is not to create amazing photographs, but rather to simply take a photograph that captures the true sense of a piece; I want the … Continue reading