- - After a couple of years Don has resurrected the chicken yard with 22 white Leghorns, 2 Barred Rocks (these photographed are a Leghorn a...

 for a - - “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke  Some of you found me, with...

- - I took this [film] photo in the Scottish highlands in 1980, when I was pregnant with Lesley I heard Representative Gabby Giffords'...

- - The view from Brian & Lesley's new apartment in Michigan; that's a corn field on the horizon; see the brown grass, the need ...

- - The Norwegian Jøtul wood stove in the family room (where we spend most of our home awake time -- where I write, read, work on photog...

- - Segment 1 of "America Windows" by Marc Chagall, Art Institute of Chicago In this late afternoon blue winter light, as the w...

- - Because of some beautiful experiences with bluebirds (especially this one I posted about), I have paid close attention to them. Bei...

- - Liu Xiaobo's empty chair at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony For the record: Thank you to the powers that be and have been these t...

- -      The way I want Christmas is withdrawn, but attentive, and giving. Like a woman. During holiday hullabaloo the thrusts of commerce...

- - Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Clara Westhoff Paris Vie, 29, rue Cassette October 13, 1907 (Sunday) Today I went to see his picture...