Ruby-throated Hummingbird (juvenile male) I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve posted any bird photographs, but I do have some updates (and many photos) to share with you. First, I am excited to tell you that one of my photographs has been included in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s FeederWatch Birdwatching Days 2023-2024 calendar. Second, […]

Artifice, paper collage, 2023 Here are some of my latest experiments in collage art. An observation: at any given time, I am either seeing creatively or I am not. Either every image I encounter (or nearly every image) is a source of inspiration, brimming with possibility, or it’s ordinary, flat, uninspired. Indeed, creativity is very […]

For a long time I envisioned vitality as a manifestation of intelligence. Not the kind of intelligence measured by I.Q. tests, but a more holistic, free-flowing intelligence, one that suffuses body, mind, and spirit. It’s only recently that I’ve begun thinking in slightly different terms: perhaps vitality is a matter of instinct. Perhaps we awaken, […]