29 September 2020

Autumn Palettes

Mass Audubon Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Sharon, Massachusetts

This was a summer with almost no-rain in sight. Streams have dried-out. Trees are hanging in there...  
  Still warm and thirsty... not the best time for prime autumn colors...

  ... nevertheless...

Moose Hill: ... the autumn has arrived...

Moose Hill: ... coloring every step of the way...

Moose Hill: ... in the crowns...

Moose Hill: ... and meadows...

Moose Hill: ... with flyaway sparkles...

Moose Hill: ... drying grasses...

Moose Hill: ... caught up in these moments...

Moose Hill: ... and Mantis is watching...

Moose Hill: ... where each shade shapes the place...

Moose Hill: ... and singular shows up...

Moose Hill: ... where maples are welcome...

Moose Hill: ... the firestorm of forests...

Moose Hill: ... and grounds...

Moose Hill: ... charming...

Moose Hill: ... visitors...

24 September 2020

No Space for Ducks

Black's Nook, Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Lotuses have overgrown the nook... no space for ducks...
   ... I see a frog...

Black's Nook: ... lotuses have overgrown the nook...

Black's Nook: ... no space for ducks...

Black's Nook: ... I see a frog...

17 September 2020

Zea, We call her Corn

Foss Farm, Carlisle, Massachusetts

One of the most widely loved grasses we call corn.
Devised and grown by humans, she only lives with our help and feeds us in exchange.
Corn cobs are well known,
  but the fields where these grasses reside are at some place unknown... 

Foss Farm: ... corn only lives with human help...

Foss Farm: ... and feeds us in exchange...

Foss Farm: ... with winds in their grassy hearts...

Foss Farm: ... autumnal colorings...

Foss Farm: ... corn cobs are well known...

Foss Farm: ... but the fields where these grasses reside are at some place unknown...

10 September 2020

Protected Land Shines

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge & Greenough Land, Carlisle, Massachusetts

Strolling the protected grounds of Carlisle...

  Put to use by Musketaquid Indians and later-on by European settlers,
  with the long history of service to humans, the land had lost the right to mold self well-being.
  And then one day,
  the Carlisle townsmen decided to protect these pieces and return the land to Nature...

... it is sunny today...
... the sun-rays beam down the multi-layered network of forms and colors...
... passing, breaking, reflecting unfettered, glowing lushness...

Carlisle: ... strolling the protected grounds...

Carlisle: ... where trees live-on after dying...

Carlisle: ... shades of green flood the space...

Carlisle: ... and Concord River moves along...

Carlisle: ... quietly...

Carlisle: ... noted by ferns...

Carlisle: ... and clouds...

Carlisle: ... where nature plunges into herself...

Carlisle: ... and heron knows that it is just a play...

Carlisle: ... beaver likes it on the edge of physical and pictorial...

Carlisle: ... proudly vertical...

Carlisle: ... reaching for the heights...

Carlisle: ... to be the first to meet the sun...

Carlisle: ... closer to the ground...

Carlisle: ... densely packed...

Carlisle: ... charming the eyes...

Carlisle: ... those reds...

Carlisle: ... with untouched passage...