Basket and News

Freshly cut lily of the valley and newspaper. With the progression of spring flowers also came the continued assault of Covid-19 across the globe. We must summon up the courage to defy Covid-19: self-distance, wear face protection, wash hands frequently and...

Pandemic Ponderings #5: A Sad and Human Face

/>  Coronavirus arrived with the spring flowers. In our region, the last snow drops still hang on delicate stems. These tiny flowers have long reminded me of an etching by the artist Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) called Swamp Flower, A Sad and Human...

Pandemic Pondering #4: A Naked Truth

In this photograph, the beauty of two tulips has disappeared with time. Petals have fallen away exposing the stigma (innermost section). In society too, the raw, bare truth of the Covid 19 pandemic is being revealed. Hard working people can’t pay their rent or...

Pandemic Ponderings #3: Dreams Deferred

  How do couples plan their wedding while navigating the great unknown of the Covid 19 pandemic? I’m thinking about my niece and her fiancé right now. They have been planning an August wedding for months. With him stationed on the west coast and her...

Pandemic Ponderings #2

“Paper money shunned for fear of virus” reads the headline of the paper in this image. Doesn’t this give a whole new meaning to the term “money laundering”? While you may laugh with a mental image of bills pulled from jean pockets after the last wash...

Pandemic Ponderings #1: Thirteen Dollars

During this pandemic, while observing the Ohio governor’s “stay at home” order, I decided to begin using news topics as a springboard for still life photographs. With flowers from my garden and a headline about the Ohio attorney general pushing for a...