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Autumn Fields,Winter Whispers
How the fields looked yesterday as they were collecting generous flakes of sticky snow. An irresistible sort of snowfall. *The middle image is an in-camera double exposure (digital), the others are...
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Mosaic: Iced Seed Heads
This morning we had freezing rain and I headed out to photograph the same seed heads in my garden that I’ve been documenting over the fall. As the day wore on and the temperature crept over the...
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Tiny Transitions
There are more “mosaic” seed heads (see previous entry) I think I might post but this icy flower image was taken a day later – the day after the freezing rain. The temperature had dropped significantly...
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Sugar Coated
A sugar-coated day never lasts long. The ices are responsive to the day. © Karen McRae, 2012
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Temporary Blooms
Just cold enough for the morning fog to arrange shattery fringes on winter flowers. Still, there are meager promises of spring, promises that are easily withdrawn. © Karen McRae, 2013
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it’s been a winter,
he said yes, it has been a winter The First Throw The thing to consider about weeping willows, is that they are inherently mischievous. There are many stories to support this thought. Tales of...
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By Degrees
We are creeping ever so slowly out of winter and these pale robin’s egg blue tones seemed to have a little whisper of spring in them, (which I am craving today!). (Water reflections of trees and...
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Feathered and Frosted
It is hard to believe Spring is just a few days away (photographs from early this morning). It seems likely the next photographs posted here will be laden with fresh snow … the clouds are moving in –...
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Residuals 2
A little extra winter here the past few days but I don’t think the remainder of ice on the river can last too much longer. The coming days look to be shifting into real spring. The footprints made by...
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What Water Does
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” ― Loren Eiseley Above and below: Seedheads covered in ice from freezing rain – the patterns develop as the ice starts to melt away and...
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Spring Belongs to the Birds
Birdsong and squinting into the sun. The earth is greening. © Karen McRae, 2013
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Halcyon Moments
After a few halcyon, summer-like days the spring blossoms are in full splendor. When I managed to get out with my camera it was mostly grey and overcast and I came away feeling like I had not been...
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This Side of Winter
These are the last of the little seedheads from my garden that I have been documenting through the seasons. Somehow a few of them survived the weight of winter relatively intact. I had left them in...
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Long Days and Tall Grass
(Untitled. Oil, graphite and Conté on Mylar) It’s the first day of summer here and it feels like a true summer day with gently swaying grasses in the sunshine and strange insects in the garden. [The...
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It’s a Dragonfly Summer
The dragonflies have been amazing this year. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many. In fact, as I sit writing this post I can see them flitting around outside my window. They have been gathering on the...
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Sliver-thin Layers and Double Exposures
Sliver-thin layers and double exposures. From the series Surface, Submerge. © Karen McRae, 2013 I suppose this image doesn’t seem to have much to do with the rest of this post but it is woven in with a...
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