nature's artist

“Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - He paints in nature and describes in rime...” -Thomas Hood

sugar coated

every leaf speaks bliss to me

{quote by Emily Bronte}

water colors

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." -Rabindranath Tagore

paths

"But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths." -Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Stephen Mitchell

gently

autumn sparkle

tiny pools

fragile beauty

“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” -Albert Schweitzer

fallen

love grows

I couldn't resist the cheesy title...I love the shape of these moonflower leaves. ;o)

No flowers yet, but the vine grows bigger, stronger, and stickier by the second. I swear...one morning we're going to wake up and our house is going to look like Jumanji!!

transformation

summer's shadow

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

anew

little moments

The studio was pretty quiet today so I decided to do a little exploring with my camera. Just before the sun went down, I noticed the plants on the windowsill and this crazy-beautiful, illuminated leaf. Lucky for me! Less than fifteen seconds after capturing this shot, the light had already moved on.

running late

My commute into work this morning was unusually photogenic. I'll admit everything seems a bit more photogenic since starting this blog, but this morning was crazy. I kept passing photo op after photo op {fog-laden field! sparkly, ice-covered tree branches!}, until finally I just couldn't take it anymore. I pulled off onto a side road, trudged through a couple feet of snow, and settled on this random bunch of nettles and dried leaves. Once my feet were successfully frozen, and the reality that I was late for WORK settled in, I reluctantly stopped snapping and headed back to the car. Maybe it was the cold jolt, or the uncharacteristically early dose of inspiration...but today was a fantastic, happy day. Another, please!