Blue-Grey Mushrooms
South Carolina June 16, 2007
Visual explorations of the botanical world
South Carolina June 15, 2007
The weather pattern here seemed unpredictable, but turned out to have a pattern: cool and moist in the morning, hot and humid at midday, then thunderstorms and sudden drenching rains in the afternoon.
South Carolina June 14, 2007
I think it would be fun to shoot a series of pictures of magnolias, and never one of the famous flower itself.
June 14, 2007
I find the non-white parts of the magnolia as compelling, perhaps more so, than the tree's distinctive petals.
April 11, 2006
She narrates the history of flax and describes the retting process by which the plants are rotted, then dried, to make the fiber easier to obtain.
April 11, 2006
He points at the mysterious point where "flax" transforms into "linen".
April 11, 2006
Out of a fist-full of plants, you end up with this little wisp of fiber.
April 11, 2006
He begins to comb the fibers through a series of progressively finer hackles.
April 11, 2006
He further beats at the flax to remove more of the woody exterior.
April 11, 2006
Here he is pounding the flax stalks to reveal the fibers within.
Michigan October 24, 2005
Every year, erosion brings this tree closer to oblivion.
