Photo of the Day
Fresh photos from the American Southwest and my travels abroad
Coyote on the Move
“Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.”
– Navajo Proverb
More Photos of the Day
Coyote on the Move
“Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.”
– Navajo Proverb
Sandhill Cranes Flying Over the Bosque del Apache
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison
Intensity Brings Focus
It is very important on the spiritual path that you are not dead serious. Being intense is one thing. Being tense is another. Intensity brings…
Speak Up
I share a flock of inspirational quotes encouraging women to speak up in this post.
The Ancient Rhythms
“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not…
If Only We Discover It
“The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Above the Angels
Don’t be on the side of the angels, it’s too lowering. – D.H. Lawrence
Who is Available?
The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
When Everyone’s Included
What is one to do when the weight of the world and the anxiety it can provoke begins to take a toll on you?
An Invitation
Invitation. One of my favorite poems from my favorite poet, Mary Oliver
Walking on Water
There are moments in the fading light when I am so touched by the beauty of this world that I understand we are all angels…
Wishes and Promises
I took this image back in May when my apricot tree was flowering with wishes of the harvest to come. But unlike the previous…
Crimson Sunset
If you can let go of passion and follow your curiosity, your curiosity just might lead you…
Apricots in the Rain
The taste and the aroma of my tree’s generous offerings will come back to comfort me in the days to come, reminding me of the love that is…
Secrety Beauty
Beauty is hiding in places we often don’t expect to find it…
First Batch
If you don’t like apricotish snapshots you’ve come to the wrong place! (At least until my bumper crop has been polished off.) I had no concept of the size of the wave I’d end up…
Love Made Visible
Early into this waltz of fruit my heart leapt at the discovery of the sweet impression left by a soggy-bottomed apricot I picked off the kitchen…
The Endless Harvest
I’m saving the stones – each a promise of new growth – as this endless apricot harvest creeps along…
Secret Beauty
Ladybug, Ladybug fly away home! Your house is being made into jam!!!
A note about FREEDOM
As much as my mind would like to turn away and push these thoughts and images through a trap door, I’m setting an intention to bear witness to both…
The Gift of Bearing Witness
How can a photograph understand the woman who is looking? Listen to my very first PODCAST where I share my creative process, which is also a practice of paying attention…
Moon Songs
How do we place ourselves, and keep ourselves, in these wandering streams of beauty?
Happy Lucky Idiot
Because I was rushing. Because I was being a tad lazy. Because I was intent upon getting to the Star Party on time…
Wendell’s Popppy
keep still until,
moved by what moves all else,
you move.
Taking My Lizard for a Walk
Find out how taking your Lizard Brain for a walk in the sun could be the key to feeling a sense of peace and wonder…
What are you?
How do the answers change when the question shifts from who to what?
Chaco Petroglyphs
Whatever they once said to their authors, they scream their message of no message across..
Sunrays Through Pueblo Bonito
This is the first of several shots I’ll be sharing from my short trip to Chaco Canyon, the prehistoric home of the Anasazi Indians…
The Precious Life You’ve Been Given
Life is not supposed to overwhelm you at all times. Life isn’t meant to be merely survived…
Subtlety
Quiet today.
Two Suns
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. – C.S. Lewis
Red Wing
I took a ton of shots of this little red wing blackbird without any expectations for a good shot. I was pretty far away…
Red Wing Ruffle
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like…
How Dare You?
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? – Seth Godin
Sheep Heaven
I’m pretty sure the luckiest sheep on the planet reside in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Lucky…
Seekers and Finders
In a world that is so rigged to addict us, it’s no wonder that we seek external solutions for inner muddles…
Frosty Belt of Venus
The Belt of Venus – not to be confused with Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus – is a delicate, rosy band of light that appears on the opposing horizon just before sunrise and just after…
Sandhills Surveying La Garita
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis
See How Passionate You Are
The energy born of love is creative – it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look…
Chilly Monte Vista Sunrise
This is the first photograph I’m posting from the photo workshop in the San Luis Valley led by the masterful wildlife and landscape photographer…
The Darker Side
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side…
New Moon
As I watched the tiny sliver of a new moon make a rapid descent through a narrow veil of clouds last night I was reminded of just…
Janus Geese
Janus Geese“We all have two lives. the second one starts when we realize we only have one.” – Tom...
Goose Bombs
As an introvert with some seriously shy tendencies in certain situations, I can say the reason I crawl is I’d rather NOT come across like a goose…
Let’s Go!
There’s nothing like standing along the edge of a pond and witnessing thousands of snow geese take flight all at once!
When something wonderful has touched us
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours…
For everything that is YES!
Today is my birthday and if there is anything that I’ve learned in my 54 years on this planet it is YES! YES! YES, damnit, YES!
Puddle-Wonderful
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e. e. cummings
Making a Ruckus!
I arrived in Del Norte, Colorado a day early before what I’m sure will be a wonderful San Luis Valley photo tour led by the talented wildlife photographer, Ed MacKerrow. This afternoon I visited the Monte Vista…
Landing Together
No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.– Mark Nepo
