Apple Blossoms
From the median strip of nearby Arlington Avenue we clipped some branches from a beautiful, blooming apple tree. Arlington Ave is too busy for my taste, and one has to…
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April 13, 2018
Oxalis
Oxalis is a modest plant, considered more weed than flower. The Oxalis shown here is Oxalis stricta, also known as yellow woodsorrel or sourgrass. In season, this Oxalis grows in…
April 12, 2018
Garden Flowers with Proteus
Most of the flowers in this light box arrangement come from our garden, except the Proteus. We do have a beautiful Proteus bush in my garden---Leucospermum 'Scarlet Ribbons'---grown from infancy…
April 11, 2018
Yum and thanks!
These wonderful chocolates arrived today! Truly, I did nothing other than dispensing a little photography advice to deserve them. So thanks Jarek! Photographed with my iPhone and processed in Snapseed.…
April 10, 2018
Leaving on a Jet Plane
In about a week I'll be leaving on a jet plane, and resuming the life of a peripatetic photographer after several months as a "homebody". I am looking forward very…
April 7, 2018
Street Grasses
These images show common street grass stalks, probably in the Digitaria family, and most likely a variety of "crabgrass" (any botanists care to weigh in on this?). I harvested the street…
April 5, 2018
Window and Shadow
Wandering through an open house in the neighborhood, I came across this window and shadow, and photographed it with my iPhone, the fun camera I always (at least mostly always)…
April 4, 2018
Edward Weston’s Kitchen
In September 2013 I spent a night in the guest cottage of famed photographer Edward Weston's house at Wildcat Hill along the Big Sur coast, following a workshop I gave…
March 31, 2018
I Wasp Eye
Early this morning I came downstairs in my pajamas and found myself face-to-face with this wasp, somnolent before the heat of the day. I pulled some close-up gear together, and…
March 29, 2018
Color Field of Flowers
Thanks for participating in my previous request for comments on Decorative Grasses and Blades of Grass. Today's Which variation do you prefer? And, why? involves six images. What these variations have…
March 28, 2018
Decorative Grasses
Thanks for all the input on my Blades of Grass series. I appreciate the (varied) input. Here's another sequence of Decorative Grasses. Which is your favorite variation, and why? I particularly…
March 27, 2018
Egg
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Coming downstairs on a school-day morning, I found a boiled egg that Nicky spurned alone in a small white bowl. The bowl…
March 25, 2018
Katie Rose and the Swallow
Alas, Katie has had a sinus infection, and antibiotics have been prescribed. She has graduated from solution to pills, but she does not like swallowing them, and makes a production…
March 25, 2018
I am deleting my Facebook account in one week
I am deleting my Facebook account one week from today. The week's delay is to give my real friends on Facebook, many of whom hail from other parts of the…
March 22, 2018
Slay a Bucket-List Dragon
Time to slay your bucket list and visit Malta with me (photographed on the streets of Valletta). Click here for a detailed itinerary (PDF) and here for the Reservation Form.…
March 20, 2018
Vitruvian Woman
I titled this piece Vitruvian Woman, after the famous Leonardo da Vinci drawing of an ideal man. The model is Muirina Fae; click here for her IG stream, this model…
March 18, 2018
Bouquet for Phyllis
With love, gratitude, and appreciation to Phyllis for all she does to make my life complete, and for our family---and her patience, strength, and fortitude in the face of life's…
March 17, 2018