One of the delights of photography while hiking is the interplay of light and leaf, wind and whim. On a hike at Limestone Gorge in Louisville, KY, there seemed to be a celestial favoring of these red buds. I have no idea what this plant is, other than lovely. Happy Friday!
This is Copper. He seems to think he was put on this earth to make humans smile and squirrels die.
The sights and smells of an apple orchard are one of life\’s greatest pleasures.
This bend in the river is as familiar to me as the lines of my hand. I stand and follow the river\’s flow as it rounds the mountain and carries with it the memories of generations.
My heart has been longing to return to the cool shade of the forest this week – not surprising, considering the heat wave we\’re enduring. The hike on Mt. Pisgah in North Carolina, where this photo was taken, was undertaken on a drizzly, foggy day in October. The six mile out and back trek provided …
A flower, a bug, and I share a moment.
Ben Franklin may not have sat upon this specific bench, but on a drizzly summer afternoon, you could just about imagine he still wandered the grounds.
From a lovely afternoon strolling around Independence Park, this is a detail of the fencing that surrounds the building that houses the Liberty Bell. It\’s fun to give yourself the time and space to wander, to be a little lost, a little unproductive; because it is in those times of pause – the negative space …
Train travel is not a mode of long distance transport that one uses to get places quickly in the United States (sigh, would that it were), but it is a mode of transport that helps you construct the DNA of our nation. Watching the land roll past the windows as you eavesdrop on, and converse …
I *heart* Philadelphia.
