Olympic National Park

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

-Ansel Adams

On the Lena Lake hike with my outdoor photography class

Olympic National Park WA, May 2010

Gas Works Park

We're extremely fortunate
to know precisely
the kind of world we live in.
....
Get to know other worlds,
if only for comparison.
-Wislawa Szymborska

March 2010, Seattle WA

Parkland Flora

At my feet the white-petaled daisies display
the small suns of their center-piece, their--if you don't
mind my saying so--their hearts. Of course
I could be wrong, perhaps their hearts are pale and
narrow and hidden in the roots. What do I know.
But this: is it heaven itself to take what is given
to see what is plain; what the sun
lights up willingly; for example--I think this
as I reach down, not to pick but merely to touch--
the suitability of the field for the daisies, and the
daisies for the field.
-Mary Oliver



Spring 2009, Parkland WA

Idaho Flora

"There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass."
-A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton


August 2008, Caldwell ID

Lake Managua

Ay, Nicaragua, Nicaragüita, la flor mas linda de mi querer...


October 2008, Isla de Ometepe Nicaragua

Parkland Sunset

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile, the world goes on.
-Mary Oliver

Spring 2009, Parkland WA

Yakima Flowers

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one
I will look at cliffs and clouds with quiet eyes
Watch the wind blow down the grass and the grass rise
-Deb Talan

April 2009, Yakima WA