Here are two views of our pond-side garden, recorded three years apart, almost to the day. The earlier, 2009 scene was recorded after two big snowstorms had hit, dropping several feet of the white stuff. (The little bird bath is there, buried, a s...
From my house, I can’t see the setting sun — it’s hidden by high ground behind me, to the west — but I do catch its reflection off the windows on the opposite shore of the pond. At times, the effects can be dramatic. ...
entrance to our driveway, we’ve seen many volunteers come and go over the years. Some were invasive plants like tiger lilies that we had to pull up, to keep them from spreading throughout the yard. Others didn’t survive. We t...
Glancing out the window of a recent evening, I again caught sight of that now familiar glitter on the water. There was only one problem: a big bush partially blocked my view. Knowing how transitory such events are, I grabbed the camera and rushed ...
These are familiar subjects, but photographed from a fresh point of view. The durable, massed coneflowers, the two Green Herons that now appear daily at first light, the two young Mallard ducks on their daily paddle t...
suspended at eye level, near the water’s edge. I literally bumped into this spider early in the morning while photographing a pair of swans. The lower end of the strand seemed anchored to the ground, though I couldn’t follow it, and th...
Recently, I again caught sight of that brilliant, but mysterious secondary reflection of sunlight off the water. Mysterious, because the source is usually hard to spot. This time, though, there was no mistaking it, as the second photo reveals. Sad...
These dead coneflowers against the snow are one of my favorite subjects. Two species are planted here, both belonging to the genus Rudbeckia. At the right end are the graceful remains of Goldenrod. I leave the stems standi...
July Fourth was celebrated on the pond this year by a rare natural effect, one that occurs when the low evening sun reflects off windows on the opposite, eastern shore, and thence onto the water, producing a fabulous, glittering display. ...
Coneflowers, also called Rudbeckia, left standing in the fall, dry out and morph into an abstract composition, ...
