Good Morning Venus
Venus soaks up the new day
Reflecting in the Bic blue sky
Even the trees reach to hug
Her translucent beauty
Good Morning Venus, my love
~ PLR
Pilings
Two Harbors, MN | Lake Superior 2013
The ice forms around the pilings
Like plaque around an aging tooth
Prie-dieu
Silver Lake Park, 3-Rivers | St. Anthony, MN | 2012
Weighted down
Drifted over
Cloaked memories
Ruminations signaled
Snowman
Living in a land that is covered with snow for 1/3 of the year I found the only way to survive is to get out in the elements.
We have snowshoe’d in weather as extreme as negative 20 degrees, photos of frozen hair to prove it. There are some who say “your nuts” to those I merely smile and say “yes, I am”!
The tree and snowscape was taken at a local state park Wild River State Park in North Branch, MN
The image of the man in the snow was taken during a photo shoot with a kindred spirit and friend.
This is my attempt at merging spirits, Mother Earth, Old Man Winter and a wise Shaman.
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
Misted Path 2012
Snowmobile Trail | Lutsen, MN 2012
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” ~ Albert Einstein
Canon PowerShot ELPH 100HS | focal 5| f-stop 2.8 | exposure 1/500 | fisheye
Green 2012
Silver Lake Park, 3 Rivers District | MN 2012
When living in the land of ice and snow, or in the case of this winter…
brown and gray
Green is always a welcome color, now just waiting for the smell of fresh cut grass and earth
Reflection 2012
Silver Lake Park, 3 Rivers District | MN 2012
Warm reflections surface of a season now past
Knowing this too will evaporate into a memory
FinePix S8000fd | focal 9.4 | f-stop 4.5 | exposure 1/300
Whispers in the Wind 2012
Silver Lake Park, 3 Rivers District |MN 2012
The wind whispers ~ Spring
as the bite of winter is exhaled on its breath
FinePix S8000fd | focal 84.2 | f-stop 5.6 | exposure 1/550
Red Squirrel Totem 2012
Red Raven Retreat | Willow River, MN 2012
One of a family of seven. The woods were moving with curious red tails all afternoon.
The chatter and whistles of 6 babies old enough to run as momma looked on from above.
FinePix S8000fd | focal 84.2 | f-stop 4.5 | exposure 1/480
