We thought the other snow was big. This is the biggest of the season and maybe the biggest for several years. It made for great skiing but also required a bit of shoveling. During the middle of the storm it was pretty much white on gray but it gave a great shot of the house.
A lot has changed in twenty years. The first picture is a photograph twenty years ago and the second picture was taken today as it was beginning to snow.
The Muses are at it again, inspiring another image in the sculpture garden. It is in process and incomplete, but then again, many of the events are works in progress, performance art as it were. I know, I know, this image is referential, but I meant it to be a somewhat homage to Magritte and ‘The Human Condition,’ only with a lighter touch.
A look back at two things this past summer. I forgot to show a picture of the Tiger Lillies that were a 60th birthday gift from Ohio. They bloomed beautifully the first season. About the same time I took the tiger picture a Bald Eagle flew over the farm. Though I didn’t get close I did have the camera with me.
So many variations of images are presenting themselves in the arboretum that go beyond mother nature and autumn colors that we are about to rename parts of the arboretum a Sculpture Garden. Here are a couple of angles on the new from.
Ah, April. That month when, beyond the obvious deepening green, the colors of the coming summer begin to form in all their pastel glory. A sampling below.
This time they were Wood Ducks. I was out for a walk in the arboretum Sunday morning when I saw the Blue Heron in the creek. With a long lens I took a few pictures and while I was taking pictures a pair of Wood Ducks swam past.