The moonlight was brilliant, creating perfect silhouettes of everything that stood between the sky and the earth below.  The delicate shadows of bare branches and limbs cast a lacy network upon the ground as pools of moonlight splashed in the negative spaces between.  The remaining patches of snow became luminescent.  It was, in a sense, other worldly….

  The landscape has finally been reborn, cleansed of its imperfections, bleached in pure, glistening white, sparkling in the sun, blindingly renewed.  A somewhat fitting start to the new year, and one I’ve been waiting months to see. I love snow.  I realize this puts me squarely in the minority and…

I always thought of myself as a “big picture” kind of gal.  Before I can truly understand or appreciate something, it’s very important that I am able to visualize and conceptualize the whole.  Well, I thought wrong.  Sort of.  When it comes to landscapes, I was kind of missing the boat. …

They happen every day – mostly by the ill-informed, mis-informed, careless or just plain malevolent, and it’s the latter I have a problem with. I witnessed such a crime this Sunday in my own neighborhood, and I felt truly sickened yet helpless. For some unknown reason, this homeowner decided to…