Our forest is passing peak color—leaves are predominantly red or brown and more have fallen than remain. Yesterday was a mix of strong winds and blue skies. Click on the image for a larger view.
Category Archives: Meditations
Change
The view of the fading day from Little Hunters Beach. Acadia National Park is often described as a timeless, unchanging landscape. Perhaps on a human scale, but the land is changing. Every rainfall, every tide takes a little away. The winter ice splits rock. And the colonizing biology leaves its mark. Click on the image for a larger view.
Little Hunters Beach
Little Hunters Beach is just down the coast from Otter Cliffs. It is a geologic junkyard. This detritus shows the metamorphosis of our planet through time. The colors mark events and transitions. Click on the image for a larger view.
Old Soaker Island
Old Soaker Island off the coast of Mt. Desert Island from Otter Cliffs in Acadia National Park. Click on the image for a larger view.
Kennebec Land Trust 25th Anniversary Exhibition
The Kennebec Land Trust is celebrating their 25th anniversary with an exhibition at the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, Maine. I was honored to have one of my images selected for the show. Many of the Kennebec Land Trust properties offer recreational trails for the public. My submission was taken at the Small-Burnham Conservation Area in Litchfield, Maine. The exhibition runs until November 1st. Click on the images for a larger view.
A Sucker for Color
I am a sucker for color. This time of year, I simply get drunk on the stuff. There is a quiet section of road in Acadia National Park that has a stand of young quaking aspen. It is a delightful place at any time of the year, but, in the fall, it is magic. Click on the image for a larger view.
Breaking Waves, Setting Sun
Naomi and I went out to Pemaquid Point on Sunday. From high on the rock ledges, this peninsula seems to jut out into the ocean and sky. In the roar of breaking waves, your mind is quiet. Click on the image for a larger view.
Edges
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Twilight
Twilight is a strange phase; not light enough to be day, not dark enough to be night. To human vision, forms lose their solidity as they disappear into shadow; to the camera, they almost appear to glow from within. Click on the image for a larger view.
Being, Becoming
Why life? Is this self-organizing matter a natural outcome of a universe? Is it the nature of a universe to desire consciousness? The Great Gulf Wilderness was carved out by ice in the last glacial period, leaving a world of rock. Yet, in spite of this harsh terrain, life thrived. Layers upon layers of organisms colonized and built this beautiful world. Unlike the eroded mountain it inhabits, it diversified into unimaginable complexity. Click on the image for a larger view.
