Category Archives: photographs

Dancing before the hurricane

We went out to my parents’ boat on Thursday afternoon to take off the sails in preparation for her to be hauled.  The harbor is already emptying quickly.  Trailers are driving up and down the streets.  There are no batteries anywhere to be bought.  On the boat, the children danced.   Email this post

Another August sunset

Another sky whose light comes from beyond the reach of our eyes.  From beyond the realm of our logical minds.  I love it.   Email this post

Sunset

Late-summer sunset, Lake Champlain, August 2011.  The world is turning towards fall, a rotation I feel deep inside.   Email this post

5 hours

He sat like this for five and a half straight hours, I swear.   Email this post

Lantern

August 15th, 7:50pm, San Diego, California.   Email this post

Tired eyes

August 16th, 11:00 pm, the Logan airport baggage claim.  Look who is tired.   Email this post

Paradise

I stood on a bridge slung low over the lazy river at Legoland’s water park, waiting to photograph them as they floated by.  When Whit saw me, he flung his arms out and shouted, “This is paradise!”   Email this post

Roof

I have always particularly loved the lines of our tennis club.  I think the curves are very Olmstead-ish and I find the building elegant and evocative.  Fun fact:  Art history, including architecture, was one of my very favorite subjects in college.  In fact I seriously considered writing my thesis jointly on a poet (hd) and [...]

Legoland 2011

Last night in Legoland, 2011.  I have many thoughts to share on how we can and cannot go back again and on revisiting a place that is mysteriously magical to my children and to me.  Thoughts to share later.  For now, we are home, a little jet-lagged, a bit waterlogged with the sorrow of something [...]

Early sunset

It is in the early morning and the evening when I love the sky the best.  In particular I adore skies like this one, where the clouds appear to be illuminated by a light whose source I cannot discern.  I love imagining the light that comes from somewhere beyond the earth, beyond the realm of [...]