I find it easy to muse about what it is like to be frozen in winter. New England biting winds and freezing temperatures nip noses, ears and finger tips. And feet often resist every effort to warm them. I sometimes feel that the cold will never end. Then one day, spring flirts with all of us; temperatures rise, rain falls and ice locked rivulets become rushing brooks. For a while the air is warm and breezes once again feel welcome. We see colors in richer hues when they ar

My dearest friend just asked me, somewhat facetiously, how we become light. Though this is among the many questions I cannot answer, I do have some ideas on the subject. There is much darkness in our world, which bleeds into our emotional lives and darkens what we see around us everyday. Dismayed by world politics, natural disasters and war, the illness and death of loved ones as well as our own senescence, it is easy to feel heavy, to feel the dark enveloping us as we stru

Every day beings novelty. And with Monday, January, here begins the launch of a new website and new ventures. I have taken pictures since I was a little child. Fascinated with lore about the natural world, captivated by seasons and enabled by a photographer father who impressed upon me the need to always have a picture taking device 'on me' at all times, it is inevitable that I often 'see'' my environs through an external lens. The arrival of this new year, with temperature