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

Winter Wear

Icy © 2007

Ice shrouded seed heads
are warming in the gray fog.
Glistening drip-drop.

 

Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin

Winter Solstice

Snow fell throughout the winter wrapped city,
sweeping the streets and sidewalks, snowflakes dancing with the ice crystals.
All was white and wild.
Winter’s zenith.

In the depths of a darkened, shadowy building
the lamps glowed throughout the longest night. The lamps glowed.

Solstice. The longest night of the year. December 22 at 1:08 am was the mid-point between the equinoxes. From now on, we folk in the Northern Hemisphere will be ‘seeing the light.’

To all, a celebration.

Lighting the Way

Wisconsin Capitol Lighting © 2007

You never know what you’ll see around the next corner. Sometimes there’s just barely enough light to make things out, but those arches and 47 different colors of marble on every imaginable surface make for scrumptious eye candy.
Antique lights fill the hallways of the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, Madison, Wisconsin

Spider Light

Lighting Fixture in Capitol © 2007

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. ~ Pablo Picasso

Antique lighting fixture on the third balcony of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Surprises and delights abound wherever the eye falls. Madison, Wisconsin