This book came to me through the On Being podcast. Anam Cara means “Soul Friend” in Gaelic. One should consider oneself very fortunate if there is even one of these in your life. Here are some highlights from the book that spoke to me. It is surely a book that one needs to read again…
The adult bald eagles have the salmon hunting down. The juveniles and the gulls are still learning.
Salvador Dali – “No way I’m returning to Mexico. I can’t stand being in a place more surreal than my paintings.” We will definitely be going back to Ciudad de Mexico and San Miguel de Allende.
A weekend fall farewell photography tour in the Kootenays, Canada. The larches are still holding on to their colors and their needles. In some places the aspens and cottonwoods are still braving the winter storms. It is fall’s last hurrah. The swan song, literally. Watch the video below. Just happened to stop at Sullivan Lake…
It is fun to go visit new places. It is also (more) fun to see familiar places in a new light! The second way to see new light is to go to familiar places in different seasons, different cloud cover and different times of the day. I must have walked on the Doudy Draw…
It is fun to go visit new places. It is also (more) fun to see familiar places in new light! The first way to see new light is by reimagining your old photos that are sitting on a hard drive somewhere. The best advise I got as a photographer was from a friend, a patient,…
Fall 2022 has been fantastic!! – aspens, cottonwoods, grasses and sumac in Colorado, larches and blueberry bushes in the Washington Cascades and now in Wisconsin – maples and oaks.
Skunkbush sumac, three leaf sumac, sourberry. All synonyms for beauty! This is one of many sumac varietals. Sumacs are related to cashews, mangos, pistachios and poison ivy. Sourberry is native to Colorado. Wikipedia says “the bark has been chewed or brewed into a drink for cold symptoms, the berries eaten for gastrointestinal complaints and toothache,…
