things that i think about and things that think about me and
things that are beautiful and other things

The Space Around Us All; April 2012
The most intimate of gooseberries.

Iznik, Turkey; April 2012
A dreamworld I stumbled into, an orchard with olive trees and violets.

Iznik Lake, Turkey; April 2012
A duck diving toward the submerged Nicene church.

Mediterranean Seashore, Turkey; March 2012
A tree from another dimension.

Kaş, Turkey; March 2012
A goose dancing the swan lake.

Fethiye, Turkey; February 2012
The Ties that Bind, Sitting Sleepily.

Yanıklar, Turkey; February 2012
Synchronized ducks, swimming.

Edirne, Turkey; January 2012
Birds over domes in the Balkans with sun shining through snowfilled atmosphere

The Sea of Marmara, Turkey; December 2011
Ships depart into the mist of eternity.

Bursa, Turkey; December 2011
Life retakes the old castle wall while Ulu Mountain heralds the sun.

Phrygian Valley, Turkey; November 2011
The land of Aesop and King Midas, where all the earth seems golden

Aizanoi, Turkey; November 2011
Wild turkeys, electric glowing gobblers, and one with rainbow tail.

Night Sky Over Georgia, March 2010

The moon departs from new leaves of coming Spring.

Atlantic Ocean; November 2010.Seabirds chase us as the sun departs.

Athens, Georgia; July 2010.

Rosy Maple Moth waits for true love.

Kendricks Creek Valley, Tennessee; July 2010

Turkey Buzzard near the Old Highway.

Pacific Coast, California; June 2010
Wildflowers along the shore, waves crashing onto boulders.

Snake River Plain, Idaho; May 2010
Sunbeams falling over flatlands.

Eastern Wyoming; May 2010

Endless expanses of green toward endless expanses of blue.

Black Hills, South Dakota; May 2010
Towers of rocks, sparkling stones in a sacred land.

Badlands, South Dakota; May 2010
Earth rocks like moon rocks.
Stickleyville, Virginia; December 2009
Snow in the valleys of the Appalachians.
Jonesville, Virginia; December 2009
Deer in the snowy field beside the forest of my childhood.
Clouds above the United States; July 2009
Clouds like a sea covering the earth.

Athens, Georgia; March 2009
Watching this red-tail hawk as he was watching me (for hours) in the snow.
Jonesville, Virginia; December 2008
The one-eyed cardinal through binoculars.
Johnson City, Tennessee; June 2008

A 17-year cicada dances with our fingers in the Tennessee manifestation.
Istanbul, Turkey; May 2008
A bag floating in the sea of marmara that says "believe", surrounded by jellyfish.
I do maintain that to take a direct interest in the beauty of nature...
is always the mark of a good soul. -Immanuel Kant
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality. -Mircea Eliade