"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer.... in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before...

The trees are God's great alphabet:  With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.  ~Leonoara Speyer ...

This year our Easter was spent together as a family remembering my  grandfather  who passed away one week before Easter Sunday. It was also ...

"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them." Psalm 111:2 Linked to: Live and Love Out Lo...

A few final winter photos as spring quickly approaches. "Your time has come, now hasten little snowflakes, To vanish quite away; The s...

This has been such a crazy winter in Chicago. No sooner do we get some snow and it melts within a day. The storm we got last Thursday proved...

"Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away,  The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and sh...

"These trees are magnificent,  but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth is t...

Another winter evening, another beautiful  painted sky  (through my eyes). ~ "The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomp...

"Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly.  Do not leave it, do not course over it, as if it were understood,  but instea...

We've had an unusually  warm winter in Chicago this year. On a recent hike in January we found some ducks enjoying a swim. Though the p...