when lured by sights, flavors, smells, textures and sounds lead to wonderful people, places and things. Back in November Mike Lowe let me know that he roasted his own coffee and gave me a link to Sweet Maria’s as the source for all things related to coffee: roasting, grinding, brewing, cupping, etc. And there I went like […]
Category Archives: Things
See. Here’s the thing…
I pick things up. I don’t know why. These things sit around for years. Decades even. Ann gifted me with a wonderful novel for christmas Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. It’s about us; people; and monarch butterflies. It’s an important novel. It prompted me to photograph some stuff I picked up. Gifts. Really. Leica R8/DMR, […]
to see warmth…
while feeling chilled to the bone seems a cruel joke (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
severe cold…
…snow …consider the lines shapes, rhythms, forms, shades I’m not kidding about the cold. It hurts. (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
record breaking cold…
keeps me inside watching sunlight noticing oddities when out ordering coffee, tea or hot chocolate… just to keep our hands warm looks like like my living room feels like I said… cold… odd… Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph (click photograph for larger view)
Each one…
appears as an event. Ice builds up on rotting cedar. Moss grows. A single leaf blows in; and stays just long enough Now the wind and rain rearrange everything. No ice. No leaf. Just wet rotting cedar cedar. Meeting over. (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Friday: a fallen feather and frozen fragments…
continue to fascinate my fovea. Why? (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
After the holidays. Before the thaw.
After a week of record lows reaching 40 degrees below zero F. Before tomorrow’s thaw; and rain (we’re told). I saw this as disappearing; like magic; only taking longer: Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit (click photograph for larger view)
Dawn…
at the sink 51 degrees F in the kitchen -14 degrees F outside -35 degrees F windchill feels like — absurd (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
Words fail me…
as I gaze upon the incomprehensible. (click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph