Seasons Past, Seasons Passed
Back to school shopping cool weather, shorter days, acorns plop, tinted leaves crunch under my feet. yellow. orange. red and brown. Christmas shopping bundle up, day gives way, a dusting of white, hollow, whistling wind stings my face. black. white. gray. Easter shopping warm sunshine, moist buds, dampened earth encourages its blooms merry pitches delight […]
Looking Our Best
There I am, in all His glory. Funny, when the book needed an author photo, I thought, really, who would want to see me on the cover of this thing? But it’s a coaching and fitness book, and don’t you want to know who you’re taking advice from? Does she look like she practices what […]
Order in Chaos: can’t you see it?
As I look down this tunnel of books packed floor to ceiling, I hear… du-doo, du-doo, du-doo, du-doo. I am pretty sure Rod Serling is about to tell me I have crossed over into … “The Twilight zone.” I am standing in the back of a small bookstore in Lake Junaluska, NC. On entering, I […]
A Reflection so perfect, it fools us
Is it an optical illusion? I look at the branch as it curls upward, or does it curl downward? Wait, that is its reflection. The bent and twisted branch arches and bends, its sprouts excursioning just a bit and one just like it follows suit, its mirror image. Still water does this. It makes a […]
The Lake and I played today
The Lake and I played today. We played peek-a-boo. We played hide and seek. We played with crayons, mostly orange. We played red light, green light. We played follow the leader. Which started me singing. Step by step, you lead me. I will follow you all of my days. So touched, was I […]
Nature leaves no doubt
Why is it that when I look at nature – in its perfect synchrony, perfect rhythm, perfect spacing, incomprehensible power, miraculous gentility – I am startled into silence and awe and moved to tears? Captain Dave Anderson and his wife, obviously at great personal risk, witnessed and photographed these astounding moments. I know you will […]
Niagara Falls, power in glorious motion
Have you ever been to Niagara Falls? Me, too. Twice. Once in 1983. Once in 2013. I only now notice the 30 year span. The Falls are still there. Still incredible, powerful, awe-inspiring. People flock to see them daily. Before I saw them, I heard them. And I remembered this sound. Apparently, from way back […]
The moment after the masterpiece
“The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.”Psalm 19:1 Temporarily. I mean how long does a sunrise last? I wandered down the driveway to collect the newspaper this morning, but on the way I knew something special was waiting. I could see the pinkish glow reflecting off asphalt and […]
What Do You See from Perfectly Still?
Maybe my blurry photographs don’t mean I’m moving too fast; maybe they mean I’m being still long enough to capture the movement in the moment. That was the intro I typed into Facebook yesterday to invite people to look at a link I shared from a Christian photography site called Sight Psalms. Here is the […]