Category Seasons

Barn Red

This shot of crystal branches against the barn roof might just be my last of the frozen months (he said, with mock confidence.) The jonquils are poking up through the sodden ground beside the house where the top few inches…

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Cruelty Jokes

1) These two lawn chairs beckon you to come sit and relax–in the cold slush. 2) Yesterday’s warmth was to make us let our winter-guard down, only to follow up with another winter event overnight. Ann: pack your bags, girl.

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Warm Home in a Cold World

My mother rubs my face in snows when I lament our winter woes. “You should never have left Alabama” she scolds me, never having quite gotten over the fact that we were meant to live among mountains and not in…

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Out of the Cold

Well, not quite. Ann left to spend yet another night at the workplace so she’d be sure and be able to open up the pharmacy at 6:00 this morning. We’ve had just enough accumulating snow showers and strong winds to…

Study in Winter #1

The way ice grows in Goose Creek fascinates me, and I’m sorry I haven’t chronicled the process over the past month. Still, where we live gets too much southern exposure. It isn’t nearly as good an ice garden as down…

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Winter Lights

My hope was to get to the back of the valley (the “Nameless Creek Gorge” I call it) before the sun disappeared behind the steep west ridge. I didn’t make it in time. By the time I reached my destination…

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Traces in the Snow

After it first falls, thick and smooth, deep enough to cover gravel and ground and all traces of autumn, I go out hesitantly into the new snow and leave the first blemishes in the unbroken white. In the beginning, there…

Nature Imitates Art

I rushed frantically to reach the high clearing for a shot of the late afternoon light through a blue fog that lift out of the valley. That, I thought, was my reason to be there. With great purpose and focus,…

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