Saturday, February 29, 2020

And A Freezing Gale Swept Them All Away..



Heroic



Every winter at The Refuge, snowy owls come down from the Arctic to live in the Great Marsh. With them comes all manner of humanity with expensive, camo-covered cameras and even more expensive camo-covered lenses hoping to get a shot of a novel visitor.

Limited parking fills up. Roads become blocked by people stopping their vehicles in the middle of the everything to chat with fellow photographers. The Refuge can feel more like Target when they have a big sale than a Refuge..

But ahhhh... since it is still theoretically winter.. there are days like the last couple when The Refuge gets cleared by falling temperatures and gale force winds. Big cameras with even bigger lenses which have to be mounted on tripods simply don't work in a lot of wind.. They get buffeted too much to get good images..

I tell you it was like Sister Wind had had enough and decided to come and wipe the place clean - if only for a while.

A few pilgrims  remained to walk about, leaning into Sister Wind's frozen breath, and as long as they had skin protection and warm clothes, those were two glorious days..



Parking Lot 7 Path




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Late Afternoon at my Cathedral



Sunset at the Cathedral




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Ground Zero



AirBurst


Air Burst



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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Saturday, February 22, 2020

No Mark



Atlantic



If pressed to compare
this brief life, I might declare:
it's like the boat
that crossed this morning's harbor,
leaving no mark on the world.

~ The Priest Mansei CA. 750 ~






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Friday, February 21, 2020

Even




Altar




Even if the sun rises
in the West,
the way of the Bodhisattva
is the same.

~ Suzuki Roshi ~




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Monday, February 10, 2020

Urchin



Urchin



Hangar - Plum Island Airport


Nikon D7200
10.5mm fisheye lens



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Saturday, February 8, 2020

Cold Boulder



Cairn - Halibut Point



If I never meet you in this life,
let me feel the lack.
A glance from your eyes,
then my life will be yours...
First Sergeant  Edward Welch  - The Thin Red Line


There were people that I've wanted to meet but never had the occasion to. This constitutes one kind of loss, one kind of regret.

There were also people in whose presence I found myself over and over again but failed to truly meet because of walls erected by them or me or both of us. This constitutes the greatest loss and regret of all - a cold boulder of sorrow that I carry and find impossible to put down...





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Saturday, February 1, 2020

Heart Shaped Stone



Heart shaped stone




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Cursed



Tree




"Cursed be the ground for our sake.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us.
For out of the ground we were taken,
for the dust we are...
and to the dust we shall return."

~ The Book of Eli ~ 


 
 
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