exploring nature’s infinite connections
With our first snow arriving yesterday, I am sensing my subjects for this project will soon be retreating into the soil for the season (with or without the help of our electric mulching mower.) 🙂 I have basically completed them over 4 different sessions outside,...
As I have been accumulating photographs of these strange little beings in my yard, I have been thinking about a good way to group them together. So here is a brief slideshow of some of my work to date. I hope you enjoy it. (Best viewed in HD - you can even turn your...
Creature Feature was a television series of back-to-back movies popular in the 1970s/80s that was broadcast nationwide and here in Detroit on UHF WKBD Channel 50. (How many of you remember UHF dials on the TV? 🙂 ) I spent a lot of time watching that particular...
Continuing with my previous post on this new project exploring the shapes, textures, and colors of some fallen leaves in my yard, this post includes a few more "characters" to be found. Working with these reminded me of my time spent in 2017 during the last solar...
Leaves have started to drop on some trees here, but Autumn colors are only just getting started. Some trees always seem to want to get a headstart, especially a few in our yard. While leaf piles have always been a favorite subject of mine, it is a bit too early for...
Since my last major website redesign in 2018, it seems like I have been in a constant "tweaking" mode. Part of it was learning two new platforms (Divi and NextGen Gallery) to build it with, combined with building from scratch in WordPress, combined with my own...
Shoreline erosion is a growing concern in the Great Lakes area, especially after having record high lake levels in the past few years. Beach Grass, also known as Marram Grass, is quite symbolic of Michigan shorelines. Anyone that has walked the beaches of the Great...
Mental health is of course no joke, and I didn't intend on coming across such a term yesterday. I was actually searching for the meaning of something else and Anatidaephobia came up as the word of the day in the Urban Dictionary. However, I had a strange feeling some...
Last summer, the area planned for a new "designer garden" on Detroit's Belle Isle didn't look like much. High water levels in the Great Lakes contributed to some significant inland flooding on this island in the Detroit River. This flooding threat actually led to a...