28 September 2022

How Many Years ?

Quinault, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Hundreds, thousands... at the same point...
  Sounds boring.

    But is it ?
 
  The same never stops changing and the tree holds on to this enduring dynamics.
    Scarred, twisted, gnarled beauty of staying there for a very long time.

Quinault: ... how many years ?...

20 September 2022

These Lustrous Threads

Coolidge Reservation, Massachusetts

A hill, a pond, the Ocean
 and swashing sounds of waves

  make this small piece of nature a place for the spirit to linger... 

Coolidge Reservation: ... up the hill...

Coolidge Reservation: ... in the light and shade...

Coolidge Reservation: ... rocks and trees...

Coolidge Reservation: ... spotted...

Coolidge Reservation: ... on the top with a view...

Coolidge Reservation: ... of the silvery ocean...

Coolidge Reservation: ... and lustrous threads...

Coolidge Reservation: ... of the quietude...

Coolidge Reservation: ... and swashing sounds...

Coolidge Reservation: ... where the land and the ocean meet...

Coolidge Reservation: ... in character...

Coolidge Reservation: ... leaving marks...

Coolidge Reservation: ... on each other's souls...

Coolidge Reservation: ... while some hold on to both ends...

Coolidge Reservation: ... while they can...


13 September 2022

Painted

Coolidge Reservation, Massachusetts

Watching butterflies makes me wonder how and why they look the way they look ?
  Is it existential or purely to enchant ? To enchant Whom ?

  And how this helps them to survive ?

  I do not know,
     but feel that BEAUTY is systemic to nature and the genes just learn to express IT... 

Coolidge Reservation: ... makes me wonder...

Coolidge Reservation: ... how and why they look the way they look ?...

Coolidge Reservation: ... is it to enchant ? and whom ?...

Coolidge Reservation: ... beauty is systemic to nature...

Coolidge Reservation: ... and the genes just learn to express it...


07 September 2022

Thump, thump, thump...

Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

A large Hickory with the crown where some can easily get lost, among leaves, green balls,
   and these thumps, hard but soft, hitting the ground.

  Somewhere up there a brown squirrel is in the seasonal harvest...  

Wachusett Meadow: ... where some can get lost...

Wachusett Meadow: ... among leaves and green balls...

Wachusett Meadow: ... brown squirrel is up there...

Wachusett Meadow: ... in the seasonal harvest...

Wachusett Meadow: ... charmingly acrobatic...

Wachusett Meadow: ... and harmonious...