a leisurely lunch two iPads on the table clam chowder with doug now a memory (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Category Archives: Poetry
Porch cave meditation
the beautiful way: weather and time returning the cedar to earth (click photograph for larger view) A seed in the earth grows into a cedar tree which men harvest and fabricate into lumber. I fashion the boards into my porch; which serves me for 25 years; only to be reclaimed by the atmosphere; due, in part, […]
Wispy Wednesday
forgotten places and things lost by someone else then found along their pathway remembering still — life (click photograph for larger view) Canon 5D, 24-70 mm EF L @ 70 mm
Wabi-sabi Wednesday
Wabi-sabi witness weather’s work. solid, water wed with wreckage, a withered wind whipped leaf within a well-worn wrapper. winter will not wait. WHAM! a wizard will work this into a range hood wrought worthy of a warm wok. (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
Forest fairy found in Wauwatosa, WI
the photographers disappear behind grandpas when fairies appear (click images for larger view) Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph
Not only leaves fall
not only leaves fall winds and windows change the state of life around us (click image for larger view) R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit R8/DMR, 15 mm Super Elmar
Dancing through time — Friday — flower appears.
ever fewer ever smaller blooms, now surrounded by fallen leaves, dancing in the breeze (click images for larger view) As I look through the view finder I slowly fall in love with this tiny blossom, resting on the weathered cedar, in the shade of the porch; even though the light lacks quality. The afternoon sun requires redirecting. […]
Friday flowers difficult to locate
slither through weeds, there found blooms, still warmed by the sun. smell earth before snow (click images for larger views) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
Fall appears
greens turning to golds fall, silent, without a splash, blowing hot and cold (click images for larger view) R8/DMR, 15 mm Super Elmar
Real love loves reality
Our parents’ ashes rest in that great chalice, Lake Michigan, reflected now in my dear sister’s Shades (click image for larger view) M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph Jean-Luc Godard said, “When you photograph a face, you photograph the soul behind it.” Can this be true? Some times; perhaps.