
My husband and I sit in our living room with all the little still-intact dairy barn windows showing flakes falling as if we are on ship at sea in a snowfall. Except for the high ceiling the living room has the feeling of a ship cabin, our converted dairy barn, and I think it is most beautiful when the snow is falling.
The glass doors at the pentagon of the far end of the barn gives us perfect view of the suet bird feeder. The bird feeder in winter is our television. We watch male cardinals, bright red in the stark white, feed and contend with the beautiful, bullying blue jays. And the more modest and gentle little juncos and sparrows touch our hearts with their humility.
Like many barns, ours was built near the road so we do get some traffic noise. But in the meadow out back beyond the marsh and stream, we are far removed from the road and from all. And when it snows, it is so beautiful in the quiet, looking at the animal tracks and feeling the spirits in the nearby now-graveless graveyard. Our secret little piece of Paradise. And to stand there in the silence, in the virgin white, and see the abstract patterns of the snow on the surrounding hundreds of trees is Divine.




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January 7, 2017 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs, Macro Photography, Nature Columns, Nature Photography, Spirituality, Uncategorized | Tags: Barn, Dairy barns, Deer in winter, Fog, Paradise, Snow, Spirituality, Streams in winter, Winter | 13 Comments

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January trees
please and tease
their feather-arms
tickle the skies
gratify the eyes
their lattice work branches
the soft, silky brush strokes
of a winter masterpiece
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January 6, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs, Mood Photographs, Nature Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Brush strokes, Feathers, Fog, Lines in nature, Nature photography, Tree branches, Trees, Trees in Winter, Winter, Winter art, Winter tree branches | 11 Comments

Listen
to the silence
of the trees
they communicate
in ways
science knows not
yet
and
the fog and the snow and the mist
the incense
suffusing
the silent cathedral
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December 14, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs, Meditations, Mysticisms of Science, Nature Photography, Poetry | Tags: Communication in Trees, Fog, Mist, Photography, Poetry, Silence in nature, Snow, Trees, Trees in Winter, Winter scenes, Winter Trees | 18 Comments