Hello & Goodbye.
Forever yours,
September
October
We’ve entered into the softest season of boldness.
A quiet yet colorful paradox.
Confident whispers.
once more with feeling
Interrupting Canadian imagery from our trip to bring you a surprise I experienced at 11:07pm last night. It lasted about 15 minutes and was stronger in color visible to the naked eye than what we saw months ago.
I can’t believe I’ve now seen the aurora twice this year.. life is full of the unexpected.
Avast
in British Columbia waters, 2024
Bound/Influenced
What it feels like to be a wave
Influenced by a small thing you can never touch,
Pushed and pulled always in motion.
To hold such force..
But only within the confines of
That small thing that binds you.
That thing that is smaller than you.
That thing you can never touch.
heart tangles
If I loved you less, I may be able to talk about it more.
– Emma, Jane Austen
the hymn
let her go to the sea
Photowalks
A Glass meetup from last year, including Nick, Daniel, and Caleb doing what photographers do, in East Lake. Are you sensing a theme this week, dear reader?
Week's End
Picked tulips outside a cafe in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA,
reflecting how I feel at the end of a very full week.
Sparkles
Lake Union, 2011
Purple Sand Pipers
early morning beach vignette from 2012
Low Pressure
Freedom and possibility within layers of pressure.
Grateful to look out my window and see metaphor.
🌿
A fern, in the Chuckanut Mountains, 2023
Perspectives #5
Lake Guntersville, AL, July, 2011
Perspectives #4
Seattle, from the ferry, in a moody February, 2011
Perspectives #3
Chicago, John Hancock Center, 2011
Perspectives #2
Dust storm on the Outskirts of Texas, 2012
Creature #5
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. ~ W. H. Auden
Creature #4
Mollusca phylum on yarrow.
Creature #3
Elephants are contagious. -Paul Eluard