Field Plow

Snow Plow © 2007

Plow once of the field
Contentedly sits in snow
Resting and rusting

The last day of 2007, a year of good but hard work, and today – a day to rest before the new year begins.

Owen Conservation Park
Madison WI

Winter Balance


“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” ~ George R. R. Martin

Owen Conservation Park
Madison, WI

Oaks in Winter

Oaks in Winter White © 2007

Oak trees hold tight to their leaves
refuse to acknowledge
the passing of autumn
and stand stalwart in the snow,
awaiting spring.

Owen Conservation Park
Madison WI

Three Witches’ Trees

Macbeth and Three Witches

Three Witches © 2007

Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wool of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge,
Adder’s Fork, and Blind-worm’s Sting,
Lizard’s leg, and Howlet’s wing,
For a Charm of powerful trouble
Like a Hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toyle and trouble,
Fire burn and Cauldron bubble.

Three Witches in ‘Macbeth’ ~ William Shakespeare

Backyard trees after the last winds cleared the branches, Madison, Wisconsin.

Autumn Reflections

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Reflection in Indian Lake © 2007

“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On a calm, misty morning, these autumn colors were reflected in Indian Lake. Photographed at Indian Lake County Park in Dane County, Wisconsin as the sun peeked over the hill. October 20, 2007