what matters
It’s snowing. It’s cold. And my dear Peaches is recovering from her romp outdoors. She loves the snow. And I do love her. When she’s not passed out, she’s wide awake to all that’s around her. And that wakes me up. Not quite to the extent of my young ones with their lively presence. But […]
bad weather
I keep the dock out all winter – a choice I’m questioning this winter. I have an ice eater – a small fan that moves under water to prevent freezing around the dock. But this year the temperatures are consistently so much lower and the winds so prevalent that Fred had to help me cut […]
it’s gonna be a great year
Open territory. Nothing in your way. You are running freely. On the side, viewers watch – what is that moving so fast? The photo shows the space. The space the lone wolf ran across. Down the middle of the empty, sunny, open ice. BEAUTIFUL. Owning the world. That wolf. That wolf is my wish for […]
exact
It’s getting near the moment, the “instant”, when we all notice time. The year changes numbers. At an exact moment. In Isaacson’s book on Leonardo da Vinci, he mentions the correlation the da Vinci makes between art and time: that the dot, the point, has no dimension. But when it moves, it creates a line. […]
slow
Sunrise. A few minutes later, the pink is no longer pink. But it’s so gradual, you miss it. Slow motion. A number of years ago, I started an art blog. Almost immediately I was apologizing for how little there was to report: definitely not enough art happening day-to-day to maintain interest, I realized. Art is […]
sfumato
nothing
It was almost dark. Almost. I wanted the camera to catch pitch dark. Nothing. But when it really was black nothing, the camera would not click. No photo of nothing. As pertains to nothing, I was reading this great African myth: This farmer would milk his cow every day and get his milk happily. At […]
look close
Do you see that triangular shape just outside my house? That, dear viewer, is a raccoon. Just happened by to check out whether there was access during these very cold times. And a few days ago, on the new snow, there were tracks the beavers left from pulling small saplings they had chewed down to […]
that sucks
There was a smidgen bit of snow last night. Just to add interest to the lake. Looks so pretty now, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, on Tuesday is will be ruined. For one day, it will be warm enough for the precipitation to be rain. Then cold again. Ice on our perfect snow. That sucks. And […]
organizing
It snowed a few days ago. Beautiful powder snow, about a foot of it. And then it turned cold. So the lake just now is freezing. Clear ice. It’s so rare that the ice isn’t covered in snow. But this was a coordinated effort on the part of the universe for maximal beauty: soft snow […]
