A column that Margot Lester and I create each month: bit.ly/Refugium_

Looking up into a flowering cherry.

Some walls i have recently seen

This is where many of my photos are resting. Some poems as well. More to come.

Calycanthus floridus Autumn emerges

I'm lost without proper interpretation

Found object 18 Aug 2025

space 145, space 146, space 149 #hendersonst #soapyair #gffry

This week, extrapolated, summed.

London slideshow 3.

London slideshow 2.

London slideshow 1.

In this week's Refugium, @soapyair.bsky.social and I herald the daffodils' bloom and the redbuds' imminent explosion. bit.ly/Refugium_ #naturewriting #phenology

Flow B&W photo Feb 2025

Basin #1 Hillsborough NC Feb 2025

Fun with sticks! chapelboro.com/town-square/...

Volunteer Candy-Striper 2025 Photo of a small assemblage

My all time fave

Learn how to ID trees even in winter with @soapyair.bsky.social and me on 22 Feb at Bluestem in Cedar Grove. It’s free, but registration is required. bit.ly/BTreeID

The drawing to accompany the poem:

grief (knot #58) Inventories of loss Hierarchies of sadness The same damn room With no windows No doors No memory Stacks of ledgers Silverfished pages Boxes of images An old flag after the storm Are you in? Did you make it in? Well, I tried *** january 2025

Winter afternoon at Bluestem Cemetery. Jan '24

Walkway B&W photo Jan '18.

Untitled. Sept '19 B&W photo. Philadelphia

Through the glass. Jan '25 B&W photo, (glass of water, placemat)

Etching. B&W photo jan '22 Found object

The sky sw of the back porch. Winter etchings.

You're soaking in it

Sometimes when pruning in the garden

Here's a link to my first article for chapelboro. This will be a monthly posting. chapelboro.com/town-square/...

Camellia japonica 'April Remembered' in the Coker Arboretum.