Pints and pints and pints of antioxidant rich blue fruit…straight from the earth, Elliot.

Tartest of all the blueberry family and latest blooming, perfect timing if you ask me!

When I reached up (about six feet) to pull down the remaining rose and I was surprised. Nothing!!! The rose was completely clean, in full bloom and fantastically fragrant. So where the heck did the gang of aphids go? I peered closer at the stem and was amazed by what I found. An entire war had occurred during the week while I had been sorting ones and zeros. You see, earlier in the spring an band of tiny spiders had invaded our balcony, setting up small webs everywhere. I was annoyed cause I kept running into webs and also want it to be safe for our kids to go out on the balcony to blow bubbles. But our eight legged friends turned out to be the good guys in the insect holocaust that happened on the rose stem.

I examined the narrow green battlefield of a stem and it was littered with hollowed aphid carcases. The band of micro-arachnids had setup a strategic line just below the dream and had slaughtered all of the aphids attempting to asend to the petals to catch a free meal. It was a moment of awe, the subtle differences between reality and the realities we think we know. Microcosms. Epic battles in the hidden worlds beneath. It reminded me of a beautiful piece of french cinema. I wish I had tiny fly-on-the-wall cameras set up so I could see how it went down.

The spiders saved my last dream. It made my day, perhaps my summer. I love coming home after too many hours in front of the social light box and just enjoying my dreams. I try to re-route myself, channel myself, my mind into simplicity of everyday things…things that just are. To me, it is beauty.

Imogen at Cannon Beach I

Meta Immi

Ashland Sunset

Cannon Beach II

The World Through Her Eyes I

these are just some of the reasons why life is so beautiful

Snowy Creek I

Snowy Creek II

Moonshine I – A beautiful moonrise over a solemn barn in Virginia.

Moonshine II – I was got this shot through an opening in the trees.

an October full moon climbs into the sky

Shedding Moonlight which falls to the earth

Shedding Midnight