Reading Robert Kelly 3

Reading Robert Kelly 2

Reading Robert Kelly

Ice on the Hudson

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Merganser in the frozen Hudson! 🪶

. . . but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured . . . Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; #MeasureforMeasure_2026 Act II s2 (117-122)

I ❤️ sycamores

Blue topaz ring looks lovely in the cold light

A guardian crow 🪶

The sun is a welcome sight these days

Blurry Cooper's hawk photo🪶

This handsome Cooper's hawk flew right by me and landed on the tree nearby

The Sawkill is starting to freeze over

Today's Sawkill, on a cold Saturday

Our friend Irakli Qolbaia has translated a poem by Robert Kelly, Runaway Horses, into Georgian -- here's the beginning:

The Catskills at sunset

This hawk flew in front of me as I was photographing the moon 🪶

The day before the full Wolf Moon

Maggie Zavgren playing the dulcimer

Happy to see @nezetseguin.bsky.social conducting this year's New Year's concert from Vienna

Items found in my attic in Cuttyhunk (apparently the Rotch family was a big whaling family in the 1800s)

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A hint of blue 💙

The sky over Hannafords