Dancing Spirits

Mass Audubon Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

I love walking through fern-lands...
   ... forests with moist grounds where ferns live happily in the shadow of trees...

Ferns are one of the oldest plants, dating back to the middle Devonian, some 390 million years ago. They became the most dominant plants on the planet some 300 million years ago, in the Carboniferous period, when Earth abounded with tropical swamp forests - the ideal places for ferns to thrive - and left us all this coal we are burning today...

   ... looking at their fronds... curving, twisting, rolling... dancing spirits from far-distant times...

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...

No Space for Ducks

Black's Nook, Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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

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... 

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...

 

Summer Home

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

Parker River skies are swarmed with clouds of Swallows...
   ... come here each summer,
    build their nests in sand dunes, and chase insects around the ponds and grasses...

  Every particle vibrates with their joyful energy... what a delight to watch...