Photo of the Day

Apache Reeds and Love Made Visible

Kahlil Gibran asks, “What is it to work with love?” and delivers a challenging answer…

Falling into the Sea of Cortez

Who is determining how things should unfold or how quickly completed? And why is she so afraid?

The Real Meaning of Closeness

Ahh, the pandemic has taught us all so much through isolation and distancing…

Look for the Patterns

I love how this flock of sandhill cranes reminds me of notes in musical score – like a feathered arpeggio…

A serious thing

it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world…

On Looking for Something

“As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of…

Egret Strikes Through

After weeks of silence, this musing takes a stab at describing the pain, fear, and brutality of racial injustice during our time of upheaval

Solitary Ibis

I have a choice, always, of how to frame my beautiful life. If I see myself as being lonely, then the emotions of loneliness are sure to follow…

The Enchanted Runway

A playful investigation into our belief in the importance of narrative and time…

One Regret

When it’s time to say good-bye…

Seeing Through Veils

If granted the solace to settle into the quote paired with this image, what questions would be knocking on your door right now?

An Empathetic Stance

A doe stands quietly in field of dried sunflowers in the Bosque del Apache…

The Strange Pull of Love

Although many photographers are unimpressed with deer, choosing to chase after more impressive animals to photograph, I find myself pulled toward these quiet, gentle creatures…

We of the Floating World

We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves…

Content with Silence

t’s been quite a month here. A pandemic and quarantine followed by a move to a new city,

Through the Red Willows

A Canada Goose spies the photographer through red willows…

An Unsheepish Pose

A sheep strikes a confident post in San Antonio, New Mexico

Waking Up in the Pine Tree Shadow

While we stand alone in a sprawling field of uncertainty, we are not powerless. Collect your creativity along with your intellect to create a sense of agency to do what needs to be done. Let your heart and mind be a compassionate fortress.

Moon Walk

Moonrise at dawn from the boardwalk in the Bosque del Apache

Egret as Illumination

I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination…

Reflections on Thinking

If the universal addiction is to our own pattern of thinking – which is invariably dualtistic – the primary spiritual path

Courage Over Comfort

Some reflections on the need for courage in the midst of the pandemic, and compassion, in this musing.

The Courage to Love

A pair of sandhill cranes take off together, flying over a field of dried out sunflowers in the Bosque del Apache

Flying Together

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Running with the Stars

Running with the Stars “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running...

Where the two worlds touch

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to…

Walking on Water

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform…

My God is Wild

A powerful and favorite quote from John O’Donohue…

Red Tail on the Hunt

See a sequence of photographs of a red tail hawk as she flew toward my camera…

Flying Toward Ourselves

Please, listen to your heart. Hear its voice above all others.

Doe Looks Back Before Moving Forward

Everything you want is on the other side of letting go…

Magical Beast also known as the Roseate Spoonbill

This a photo of what I can only describe as a Magical Beast. Roseate Spoonbills present like chimera’s – part lizard, part flamingo, with a dash of White Rabbit…

Sandhill Calligraphers

It’s easy to read what they write across the sky if you look closely enough. Hope is what they’re offering us…

How this heart melts for all of us

Caledonia is a metaphor for whatever wakes you up. Can you hear the birdsong that brings you more alive? This is the heart of what it means to be a creative – to answer the call and the willingness to follow it.

Surprised by Snow

During the winters of my childhood I devoured the weather reports hoping beyond hope that school would be cancelled by snowfall. With the highest of expectations I stood like a meteorological sentry, watching…

Cemetery Wood

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual…

Unapologetic Rocks

Always empathizing with both the viewer and the scene, Ansel was a remarkable artist, craftsman, professional, and human being. Paying homage to you and…

Facing the Songs Within Us

When we turn our back on our gift, we turn our back on life. It’s easy to have interests but whatever you give your heart to will challenge your being on the most profound levels….

Reflecting Reeds

The world is a mirror image of your mind…

Sand Dunes with Melting Snow

Clearly, I need the camera to tell these stories. How these words stumble out of my mind and clack into this screen incompletely….

The Winter of Listening

What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind…

Nuzzling Stag and Doe

the expression between this couple was quite remarkable. In the late afternoon sunlight, the stag quietly made his way over to this doe, leaning toward her and…