Lincoln Conservation Land, Massachusetts
I look at this young beech
gilded with radiant leaves,
singing and dancing on the slightest breeze.
Shines among pines...
Showing posts with label Lincoln Conservation Land. Show all posts
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13 March 2023
With Others
09 March 2023
A Touch of Snow
Lincoln Conservation Land, Massachusetts
Walking Lincoln woodlands...
Some snow on the ground raises the spirits of these sleepy woods.
Highlights the finest branches, fallen leaves, and some more...
rolling canvas,
a lively show of all those usually missing in the play.
And I observe...
06 January 2020
Winterly Adornments
Lincoln Conservation Land, Concord Conservation Land, Massachusetts
... winter walks... sleepy and awake amongst uncovered... stepping somewhere...
... winter walks... sleepy and awake amongst uncovered... stepping somewhere...
24 December 2019
Gently Rolling
Lincoln Conservation Land, Massachusetts
... Thoreau's country...
In the middle of the 19th century, when Thoreau strolled these lands, they were a mixture of farmlands, pastures, and woodlots. Subdued nature serving humans in their persistent endeavor to make their lives better. And then, by the end of the century, people departed their farms and the nature took over, bringing the land back to a wilder state...
... with echoes of the bygone times...
Young forests crisscrossed with stone walls and past rural roads.
Heirs of woodlot pines with some hefty oldies surviving the hatchet.
... and... Thoreau's journals...
... Thoreau's country...
In the middle of the 19th century, when Thoreau strolled these lands, they were a mixture of farmlands, pastures, and woodlots. Subdued nature serving humans in their persistent endeavor to make their lives better. And then, by the end of the century, people departed their farms and the nature took over, bringing the land back to a wilder state...
... with echoes of the bygone times...
Young forests crisscrossed with stone walls and past rural roads.
Heirs of woodlot pines with some hefty oldies surviving the hatchet.
... and... Thoreau's journals...
It requires considerable skill in crossing a country to avoid the houses and too cultivated parts, ____ somewhat of the engineer's or gunner's skill, ____ so to pass a house, if you must go near it through high grass, ____ pass the enemy's lines where houses are thick, ____ as to make a hill or wood screen you, ____ to shut every window with an apple tree. For that route which most avoids the houses is not only the one in which you will be least molested, but it is by far the most agreeable...
JUNE 19, 1852
12 October 2019
Delicate Landing
Lincoln Conservation Land, Massachusetts
This morning...
... millions shining, absorbing and reflecting the world I haven't seen...
This morning...
... millions shining, absorbing and reflecting the world I haven't seen...
21 July 2019
Coping With the Heat
Lincoln Conservation Land, Concord Conservation Land, Massachusetts
On these boiling summer days, a visit to nature feels like an escape...
... shading forests... flowering meadows... buzzing dragonflies...
... animated lushness...
... where coping with the heat loses its meaning...
... blackberries... bring me back in time...
On these boiling summer days, a visit to nature feels like an escape...
... shading forests... flowering meadows... buzzing dragonflies...
... animated lushness...
... where coping with the heat loses its meaning...
... blackberries... bring me back in time...
