Another window. Inside, but not looking out. Too much sun. Too bright. Keep those shades closed.
Arizona State Capitol, Phoenix
Another window. Inside, but not looking out. Too much sun. Too bright. Keep those shades closed.
Arizona State Capitol, Phoenix
April 1. New month, new season.
Windows. I love how there is nothing quite square about this window. Back in the 1800s I suppose they didn’t have to use rulers and squares when they were building their stone buildings. Eying it was good enough, plus a few years of settling in. I like that.
I like its crookedness.
A description of the Mazomanie Oak Barrens from the DNR website:
“Situated on a broad and gently undulating sand terrace along the Wisconsin River, Mazomanie Oak Barrens features a significant oak barren remnant containing large scattered black oaks with bur oak, black cherry, and small amounts of white oak. Groves of smaller oaks occur amid sand prairie openings with species such as big and little blue-stem, bronze-headed oval sedge, goat’s-rue, Carolina puccoon, June grass, clammy ground-cherry, rough blazing-star, prairie coreopsis, few-leaved sunflower, and spiderwort. There are patches of oak woodland with white and black oaks and a shrub layer composed of American hazelnut and huckleberry. The barrens supports the state-threatened cream gentian and the rare prairie fame-flower. A wet prairie dominated by prairie cord grass is also present. Mazomanie Oak Barrens is owned by the DNR and was designated a State Natural Area in 1991.”
We drove past this area Sunday afternoon and noticed a long streak of hazy gray smoke hovering in the air near the Wisconsin River. When we went to explore, we found two members of the crew in charge of doing a prescribed burn. One crew member would shoot a stream of propellent into the scrub and flames would quickly erupt. Shortly after, the second crew member would come and put the fire out. Very controlled, very effective.
I’m not one for spending a lot of time attending church services, but I do appreciate a quiet space where I can take some time out of my day and sit in quiet.
Often that quiet space, at least for me, is out in the middle of a hardwood forest propped against a tree, or sitting on the giant boulders lining the lakes, concentrating on the waves that never stop washing over the rocky shore.
But sometimes I find myself in the city, and I find myself in need of a quiet place. Occasionally I walk inside one of the many churches that line the downtown streets, and I find a space to sit and spend a few minutes in silence.
I was quite taken by the old world beauty of this church in downtown Milwaukee, and wanted to capture the feeling in a photograph. The half open door provided just enough framing for a part of the interior of the church. I liked the warm colors and the simplicity.
It was another one of those good spaces.
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