All photographs were taken by the Ambling Wanderer
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tribute to Thoreau

Tribute to Thoreau
 
Since discovering and devouring Henry David Thoreau's magnum opus, Walden or Life in the Woods has been formative in how I view and try to understand my natural surroundings. As I ramble across the acres of Paradise, through fields, woods, and wetlands I try to keep Thoreau's perspective close to heart. To see the world with all the wonder he saw it with. Thoreau never travelled extensively or to exotic lands. Instead, he spent two years in the backyard of his hometown admiring all the beauty and phenomena of local nature. He knew that the "universe is wider than our views of it." Especially the universe found right in the backyard. This is what this photographic census is attempting to achieve; to prove that on a small parcel of land, beauty and wonder can be found if we just truly open our eyes and look beyond and deep within the routine, familiar backyard.

Acres of Paradise

Beyond & deep within routine

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis

Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
 
 
As I was walking alongside a country road, this cardinal flower's vibrant color caught my attention. It was growing in a slow flowing culvert. When I got down in the culvert I was greeted by a slew of pleasant cardinal flowers off in the creek-bed.