I love photographs with one foot in the world of color, and the other in black and white. This was actually taken on January 1 a few years ago.
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On this the last day of 2011, how to sum up the year here and around the globe? This image for one – which got me thinking about Anna Nalick’s song Just Breathe, from 2005 – my vote for the soundtrack of 2011.
Lyrics and original recording here, and a live acoustic performance here.
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The winter solstice, or the “return of the light”, has been celebrated across the globe from time immemorial. Christmas Day, the annual observance of the birth of Jesus Christ, is generally believed to have borrowed heavily from those earlier solstice traditions. The candlelight service here is at the Deep River Congregational Church.
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It’s increasingly rare to find a stand of these in New England; invasive swamp grasses have moved in on a grand scale. These plants used to be a food staple, different parts used at different times of the year; perhaps they will make a comeback via the localvore movement.
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The Essex Garden Club hosts an annual “May Market”, and a few years ago, I went looking for perennials that might be especially interesting to photograph. One of the club members steered me to some anemone roots, and they definitely fit the bill. That first year, they bloomed through the autumn into November. This year, however, rabbits cleaned them out, and rightfully so, given my procrastination with laying in the protective netting.
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Come the fall, as surely as the geese fly south, I go north. Vermont beckons, and I’m off: with my camera, with or without family/friends in tow, for a day, or a week. It’s an inchoate longing – some unconscious desire – that brings me to those back roads, and at some point I find what I’m looking for, and I’m ready to head back home. This year, “enough” came on the second morning of a planned three day trip, in the middle of shooting this scene.
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Reputed to be one of the most photogenic waterfalls in VT, it’s also one of the most accessible – only a stone’s throw from Route 100. The perspective here is from the top of a large backhoe that was temporarily in the area.
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