Darkness into Light.
Much is said and written about the Yin/Yang of Solstice, the world in balance between darkness and light. Such a balance does not exist. Every year, as the sun dips below the horizon in Utqiaġvik ...
Color
Colors from home.
It should be fairly evident looking at my tag cloud to the right that I am fascinated with color. One of the things I do love is the changing of the seasons. I wold like ...
A backlight modern shrine.
As we approached the Summer Solstice, I noted that my house was Negrange in reverse, with the morning solstice shining through a passage made my kitchen window and refrigerator, and lighting my television. Now, as ...
Small Wonders
There are times when creation absolutely shouts its wonder. Standing on the Llogara Pass, listening to the storm surge crash against the shore a thousand feet below; drifting through a pod of whales as they ...
In color…
One of the benefits of my job is that I work on the 9th floor, overlooking Cook Inlet and the mountains beyond. This morning, I came to work to see them in pre-dawn shadows. Just ...
A new artist to watch.
My mother shared with me an amazing video on translating the wooden art of the Tlingit to glass. This has lead me to add a new artist to my watch-list. When you have the time, ...
The colors of life
There’s a remarkable thing that happens in the change of the seasons. We have a window of brilliant, in-your-face color that is fall. Then, a wind-storm comes by, and it’s all gone. But then the ...
There is one ridge of trees between the rest of the woods and my neighborhood. Whether it’s because the trees are sheltered in some way by the wind, or their roots spent the summer under ...