Ice Dragon
The rock of the Berry Falls
Has an Ice Dragon hiding in plain site
He rests between the cracks
In between the light
Whisper shadow footfalls
Tails rush to burn
Wind shift through
Other sides emerge
Pilings
Two Harbors, MN | Lake Superior 2013
The ice forms around the pilings
Like plaque around an aging tooth
Presence Rising
Lake Superior | Lutsen, MN | 2012
“Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth… It is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.”
~ Sigurd Olson
Gathered
Red Raven Retreat, MN | July 2012
It seems as if the ferns have gathered my tears
Pooled with the reflection of the sky
Let these tears nourish all things living
Let these tears inter all things that have passed
Direction
Gull Lake, MN | July 2012
If my aim is true I head in the direction I intend.
My velocity is the effort I put into that aim and the depth is a product of that effort.
If my aim misses then I must accept I have ended up in a direction differing from my vision but if I accept I will always better my depth.
Should time run out and I no longer can take aim and cast out, then it will be time to turn in and savor all that has past before.
Hidden
Hidden inside the bleak torrent of the thunder storm
Folded in a tight bud
Summer waits
For the expected
Thaw 2012
Lake Christine | Lutsen, Mn 2012
“A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.
It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
FinePix S800fd | focal 4.7 | f-stop 4.5 | exposure 1/250
Still Waters 2012
Silver Lake Park, 3 River District | MN 2012
Still reflection
broken by the glided movement
of two paired green heads
Hipsamatic | John S lens | Kodot XGrizzeled film | Dreampop flash
follow the Twisted Root 