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Portal to another world
When I was a child, my mother took me to a place just for children on Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, where I received my own magical (but plastic) yellow key. The key unlocked a small door in a...
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Ruined Gotland churches and a history lesson for English majors
This picture was taken as the sun began to set against one of the many medieval church ruins on Gotland. Gotland, lying between Sweden and Russia, is surprisingly warm and sunny—a golden land where...
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Elegant Chair
Filtered afternoon sunlight on this lovely chair brought out a combination of color and shadow, making this simple moment memorable for me. I particularly liked the way the slanting sun came through...
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Birds On a Wire
The original of this picture is oddly interesting on its own, in my opinion; it’s a group of black metal ’birds’ perched on a wire suspended above a garden, with tall trees in the background of a...
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Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine
There’s a neighborhood in Göteborg, Sweden, made up of summer cottages (known as ‘fritidshus’ in Swedish, the literal translation of which is “free house,” or vacation house). In front of each small...
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Backyard Birdcage
Sometimes you find architecture (of a sort) in the strangest places, like someone’s overgrown and ignored backyard. This elaborate birdcage, once coated in shining white paint, reminiscent of Victorian...
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Jester the Gargoyle
I often wonder what stonemasons of the Middle Ages were thinking while they crafted the various waterspout figurines (usually known as ‘gargoyles‘) that decorate cathedrals all across Europe. In the...
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The forget-me-not fence and Sweden’s National Day, June 6th
This traditional rustic fence surrounds a red and white fritidshus at Evedal, a swimming area and park popular with locals in Småland. Småland, not coincidentally, given its preponderance of forests,...
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Blue Sky Cottage
There was something about the perfect blue sky that just made this blue cottage seem so cheerful, especially with the lilacs in bloom. Instead of ‘blue on blue’ equalling heartache, these blues are...
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Reminiscing About Paris
A couple of years ago, I went to Paris, and since it’s sort-of almost my birthday, and I was there for my birthday in 2011, I’m remembering Paris fondly. Please take a look here, where I originally...
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Stained Glass Tulips
One of the most glorious things I’ve ever seen is light filtering through the stained glass panels in Sainte Chapelle, the medieval Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France....
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Yellow raindrop
Taken outside this afternoon after yet another day of Seattle rainfall. On the first day of summer I was huddled in a blanket to stay warm, and raindrops are falling on my head and on the trees whose...
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Almost summer?
In the devout hope that I will someday see sun again, I run to my patio each time the clouds part. Today I saw the sun for a half-hour or so (not all at once, you understand; we’re like vampires here,...
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When a leaf looks like Paris
This leaf, taken on the 4th of July at the Arboretum in Volunteer Park, Seattle, reminds me so much of a map of the streets surrounding and intersecting the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. Doesn’t an image...
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Aged door
I’ve decided the reason I take pictures of aging things is because I am aging. I think I’m constantly reminding myself that aging things are still interesting, still useful, and still beautiful—in...
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When Autumn Came
When Autumn Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz translated by Naomi Lazard This is the way that autumn came to the trees: it stripped them down to the skin, left their ebony bodies naked. It shook out their...
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Weekly Photo Challenge—Habit: Caged Smoker
I am not a smoker, and two things are true about that fact. One, I was raised by two heavy smokers and therefore spend a lot of time out of doors compensating for the lack of fresh air in my childhood....
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Field of Hues
This is one of those pictures you might have to experience in real life to appreciate, I suspect. I’m not sure you can really capture nature in all its glory if by ‘nature’ you mean thin little tree...
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The Fehu Rune Tree
If this image above looks familiar, it should; this is Gandalf’s rune from “The Lord of the Rings.” It strongly resembles the rune ‘Fehu’ in the Old Norse Futhark (alphabet). My picture of the tree...
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Lavender in the Blue Window
My soul was crying out for something blue to post, because I’ve been posting a lot of autumnal colors. I love autumnal colors, but apparently must have reached a limit, at least momentarily. Here is...
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