Another pic from my time on Silver Island an one of the Keweenaw Land Trust’s inaugural artists in residence

Got another chance to watch the Northern Hawk-owl today

In a single exposure it includes the Milky Way, the Aurora, air glow, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades star cluster, Capella, 2 shooting stars, Jupiter, Uranus, an airplane car lights on Brockway Mountain Drive, a 300 year-old Northern White-cedar, and Lake Superior.

This past weekend I presented the Keweenaw Land Trust with photos from their Silver Island property as part of the deliverables for my time this I spent this past September as one of their inaugural artists in residence.

This is one of those pics.

A Northern Hawk Owl that I got to spend a little time watching, today.

I had a bag of wildflower seeds set aside for winter sowing and, as one does, I placed them somewhere safe and logical until I was ready to spread them in the snow.

It seems that place is different than what I consider to be safe and logical now.

…and now that it’s done, here a picture of the photos getting ready

Big day today… presenting my deliverables to the Keweenaw Land Trust for my time as one of their artists in residence.

Pepe is a King Prawn and gets somewhat offended when called a shrimp. What differences are there between shrimp and prawn that make it easy to not make that mistake? ‘K?

The arrows in a diagram of a food chain/web do not represent “what eats what.” They show the movement of energy.

…and what you open a door door you don’t let the cold in, you let the heat out.

The neighborhood wild turkeys have discovered our crabapple tree. Big-bodied birds for such tiny twigs.

Finally got around to putting together our Christmas Wreath.

There’s something beautifully nostalgic about an old dog sleeping by a fireplace on a cold November night.

The mad rush to the Thanksgiving Day dinner table.

This whitetail doe has held on to her spots as an adult, making her easily recognizable from year to year. This picture was taken in November 2021 when she was a fawn. I still see her regularly. She has had two fawns of her own, so far - neither of which have had the same coat anomaly.

Sometimes it feels as though, no matter how much you hope for more, the darkness will simply just continue. But when the light does break through, it’s amazing how soul-lifting it can be. My anticipation for the next time is palpable.