Birthday Celebration

Tin-pressed ladybugs Copper flowers, gee-gaws, bells Birthday wish garden

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown

What better way to celebrate my birthday than with a photograph of — this? Looks like some sort of celebration to me. I’m not sure exactly [...]

Keeping in the Cows

If you strive for the moon, maybe you’ll get over the fence. James Wood The only fences found in Door County, WI are either rows of piled stones from field clearing or these wooden criss-crosses from forest clearing. Probably only effective for cows since at least they can’t jump (except over moons.)

Photographed in [...]

Red Barn in Solitude

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. Thomas Merton

Photographed in central Door [...]

Early Morning Fog

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse

I was driving too fast on the Door County country roads to reach Lake Michigan which often affords lovely sunrises but inland fog was slowing my efforts. I finally slowed the car enough to look out [...]