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Nature

As a kid, I spent almost every day all day outdoors. As an adult, however, I spent way too much time hibernating indoors working. I’m now making up for lost time by immersing myself in the Rocky Mountains, visiting parks to study birds, absorbing the glory of trees and flowers, and walking the Florida and Maine shoreline. How about you?

Be sure to click/tap on photos for a closer view. And check out Flowers, Mountains, Trees, and Water.

Flowers

My mother enjoyed growing flowers — not many, just her favorites: roses, pansies, the ones whose names she could remember.  Knowing the names of flowers has been a deficit for me.  But that hasn’t stopped me from photographing them.  So, if you’re a gardener and see flowers on this website you know, please educate me and others.

Mountains

While my oldest lives amidst the mountain skyscrapers of Manhattan, my youngest planted himself in the mountain ranges of Colorado and Utah, where he climbs to amazing heights.  Me?  I’m just an aging onlooker, who watches, enjoys, and shoots the sun and clouds playing around the mountainsides.  Get your camera and head to the hills.

Trees

A tree is just a tree, right.  Nope, not if you walk slowly by them, stop in their shade and see their varied bark textures, look up at their branches stretching for sunlight, and listen to the birds calling to each other and their young in nests. Fascinating, I say.

Water

Slowly sip a glass of water and think of water crashing down to a river, of broad expanses of water that invite you to raft around boulders, of slimy water in swamps hiding all kinds of creatures underneath. Okay, now finish that glass of water.

Got more time to spend in nature?
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Trees

We ignore them, hide behind them, climb them, adorn them, cut them down, burn them, and admire their unusual forms and changing colors.

Mountains

Always magnetizing, awe-inspiring and yet incapable of being absorbed … so we stand there staring at them, feeling small and yet at peace.

Water

It shapes and hydrates the earth and our bodies, reflects life, lets us play and teach, and gives us a place to look, and think.

Flowers

We can’t get enough of them … spectacular  colors, disparate shapes and sizes, thriving in diverse conditions, living brief lives but always rising again.