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6.12.11 “Before I Turned Fifty…

“Before I turned fifty, I had not yet given birth to myself in the landscape. Not that I treated the landscape as a mediocre thing, but  I let the landscape exist independently and on its on.” But now “the landscape … Continue reading

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4.24.11 Easter morning

from the darkness, light

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3.26.11 Forgittan4: winter’s coat

As winter melts away….

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3.9.11 Transfiguring

This banner now hangs at the St. Saint Paul Lutheran Church, located in Lanesville Cape Ann, Massachusetts. For a little bit more you can read Pastor Anne Deneen’s Sermon from March 8th, 2011:

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1.26.11 Yearning and Longing (Part 3 of 4)

Yesterday I began to quote from Tennyson’s poem ‘Merlin and the Gleam.’ Several years after selecting a website named, “Follow the Gleam,’ I came across this poem, and the verses follow the quarry wall profile. Actually the words convey how … Continue reading

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1.25.11 Yearning and Longing (Part 2 of 4)

I.  O YOUNG Mariner,    You from the haven    Under the sea-cliff,    You that are watching    The gray Magician    With eyes of wonder,    I am Merlin,    And I am dying,    I am Merlin    Who follow The Gleam. MERLIN AND THE GLEAM … Continue reading

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1.23.11 Yearning and Longing (Part One of Four)

“I come and stand before these abandoned quarry walls, and gaze through them, now they are as fluid as the ocean. And as the oceans swell, and waves repeat their reassuring sound, the granites speak to me of yearning and … Continue reading

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1.9.11 Like a Bird on a Wire

Early yesterday morning I was walking with a friend through Flat Ledge Quarry and in climbing back down over loose scree, I spied this form. I photo’d with my iphone at first, but as the day progressed and moisture and … Continue reading

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1.3.11 Ice Skate on the Quarry Wall

As the ice builds, collapses, and reforms along the quarry wall, the dark greens, purples, oranges and blues persist. The ice remains as a silent spectator. I look at the ice at first, and then see beyond and below it.

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Chapters on a Quarry Wall

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“Chapters on a Quarry Wall (CQW),’ became the title and focus of my photographic work centered on the abandoned quarries of Cape Ann. CQW followed me to New York and the ‘Works on Paper Show in 2002-2003. And as I … Continue reading

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