Several years ago I took a photo of a famous Japanese Maple tree in the Portland Japanese Garden in Washington Park. I recently pulled it out and used it to create several of my photo mandalas. I find that I keep playing with it. Once I start down the creativity...
The past few days I’ve been pondering the waning moon. Each morning I watch the sliver grows thinner and thinner as it drops closer to the eastern horizon. Today I got to see the final fading stage as it rose just before sunrise. It was barely visible and...
On what sometimes seems like a regular basis I manage to get myself “wrapped around the axle” (as a friend of mine is fond of saying). I get laser-focused on something that seems to have gone wrong and then blow it completely out of proportion until it fills my...
on my morning walkin the dim pre-dawn lightwith a sliver of the waning moonhanging in the skya dozen deer crossed my pathin a place I had not seen them before and then a bit further onI stood transfixedon the top of a hillas I watch them leap across the fieldbelow...
it is good to be alive on just such a morningwith nowhere to go but hereand nothing to do but thison just such a morning it is good to be alive ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Click here to view more photos from my morning walk:...
orange into blueeven after all these years still fills me with awe click here to view the rest of the photos from my morning...
18 years ago today was one of those rare “change my life forever” experiences. Less than four months after we met, and six weeks after I asked her to marry me, I stood in front of a room full of family and friends to exchange covenantal vows with Veronica Lassen...
Tonight my partner & I watched an on-line concert by one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters – Carrie Newcomer. It was a lovely evening of songs & stories that moved my heart. In introducing one of her songs – “When the Light Comes Down”...
I seemed to be drawn to threshold moments – transitions from one experience to the next. Sunrises and sunsets are a prime example – night becomes day and then it all reverses course a few hours later. This place where I live is also an example –...
Back in the fall of 2014 I visited the Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon several times a week waiting for the perfect moment to capture this photo of this tree. It is said that this is one of the most photographed trees in the country. Today I revisited the photo...