Author: barryhassphoto

From a trip to New Mexico and Utah in March, 2017.

This pine cone and honey locust pod illustrate two of the many ways that trees disperse their seeds.

“Wherever you turn your eyes, the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.” – from Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson.

I took this one in 2011. We had made an evening visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, and stayed until the lights were being turned off. As we were hurrying through the courtyard toward the exit, I saw the weary cafe staff closing up.

It was a postcard kind of day in Vermont.

Birds roost in the scaffolding of a barn at Drumlin Farm.

The winter woods can look bleak and lifeless, until you look closer.

Without snow, winter is a cold, wet bucket of ugly. But snow changes everything.