Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

These very considerate leaves are willing to put up with an occasional bloom while still maintaining their beautiful symmetry. Conservancy Garden, August

Is still a rose, is a rose, is a rose, is a rose, still smells as sweet, as sweet, as sweet    

I discovered a friend I forgot somehow, did that ever happen to you? It was long ago and far away, in a different social milieu. I found a letter way down in a box with leftover pieces and tatters I was busy I guess, with work and success, I didn’t have time for such matters. The ink is still black, the penmanship clear, the paper still pristine and white. (I imagine I kept it for all these years, since I really intended to write.) You were back this way from London that day, fell in love on the way, we had missed our connections for lunch that day. I had come into town for a job interview, I know since I read it in page two from you... I guess I passed by a lot in those times, with their dancing, loving, whiskies and wines. In the Community Garden at Lexington Avenue in the 100s

This amazing garder (and gardener) is another of the hidden treasures in New York above 96th Street.  (Lexington Avenue @ 100th.   Shhhh.....)   Urban Gardener Harvesting Zuccini and Watermelon

There exists a silence in the morning light, waiting by the old creekbed, watching for beaver with the morning star, Oh where is messy dawn! Green stalks clinging to blue astors , petals glued by their yellow centers, wet grass bending. Oh where, where is the ruby-throated humming bird! How can we wait another day?   Labyrinth, Villa Des Amis near Sag Harbor

This beautiful Horsetail Sky was photographed by our iPhone-carrying SkyWatcher.  When we see such a Sky, some say Bad Weather will follow.  When?.  Well it depends. Horsetail Sky over Manhattan,  Red Saturated Horsetail Sky, as seen by an iPhone