O Holy Night, Images Sacred & Sublime
Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to “O Holy Night“, one of my …
Category Archives: Nature
Pied Beauty, Poem & Paintings
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a …
New Paintings, the Folding Hills of California
I’ve long loved the way the rolling hills along the coast of California fold together and overlap, the sensuality of …
New Paintings, Trees and More Trees
Three new paintings, part of my forest series, I suppose, but really just playing with styles and possibilities. All three …
“Something in This Sleeping Earth” – Two by Whyte, One by Fiske
All My Body Calls All my body calls for something in this sleeping earth we call the spirit. But how …
Painting Again, Forest Series
I’ve started painting again, keeping toward the abstract, still experimenting with water-color and oil pastel, letting them show me how …
When the Sea Rises and the Light Fails
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light …
The Poetics of Place: Redwood Speech,Watershed Prayers
“I want to see our words jump off the ground, erupt from a sensual earth, musty, humid, gritty. I want …
Virtual Love-Making, Why We Blog
Often when I leave comments on a blog posts that moved me, I write “I love this post” or “I …
Riffing on Roses, Beauty Past Knowing
Lately I’ve been playing with roses, photographing them at different stages in bloom, at different times of day, against varied backgrounds, just …
