This handsome Art Deco-style youth is sculpted into a tree at Marquette Park, Indiana Dunes. There are two prevalent styles for Art Deco figures. They are often androgynous and are either strongly architectural with defined almost angular profiles, or soft and a bit...
The nature surrounding the Gifford Homestead, Capitol Reef, Utah is spectacular, from towering red canyon walls to richly varied nature spirit images in centuries-old trees. The entryway to the Homestead has been modernized but the old trees are still there. ...
This Hermit lives along side the road that wends through Sabino Canyon, Arizona. He enjoys watching hikers pass by but is not interested in interacting with anyone. He is an elderly reclusive Watcher. He does have a companion - you can see him in the vertical image, a...
What kind of spirits make complex cave systems their homes? I enjoy visiting the various cave systems that are open for easy exploration - Carlsbad, Mammoth Cave, Howe Caverns and so on. Their Own Personalities Howe Caverns in New York State are formed of limestone...
It's Party Time! A whole group of life forms are gathered to party, in this Poinciana tree who lives at a fork in the road in Jamaica, WI This fun-loving...
The March Bank at Winterthur Museum and Gardens is famous for its hillside of color. There is a burst of ephemerals, starting with white snowdrops and moving on through yellow aconites then to blues and pinks. The nature beings associated with specific trees enjoy...
The land west of Philadelphia is full of old estates and farms whose dynasties of owners sometimes go back hundreds of years. Many humans have deeply loved and responsibly cared for their land, making the nature spirits feel comfortable about coming forward to also...
We sometimes forget how closely integrated we are with nature. We are reciprocal parts of the one puzzle. This interconnection is very clear at the historic Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina where the ancient trees empathize and comfort those who mourn...
It was a quiet reflective day for me yesterday. I felt called to sit with an old log who lives in a field of bluebells over at Morton Arboretum. This particular log root is a powerful statement piece and a much photographed motif for nature photographers, especially...
I was out photographing in a local park and much admiring the large roots and complex arrangements of a magnificent old tree. It stood next to a playground and children were always climbing over, under and around it. It was dusk and the children had all gone home. I...
This peaceful rock spirit lives at Miners Falls, located on the Western edge of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan. Protected under his rock chin are several smaller rock beings. I was fortunate to have taken a several week long photographic outing a...
Among my respected spirit friends at Chicago's Art Institute is this three-part basalt sculpture called Islands. It is by Izumi Masatoshi, the Japanese artist and stone cutter. He did all of Isamu Noguchi's stone cuttings from the mid 1960s until Noguchi's death in...