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Man moved by the beauty of nature. Photographer, writer, poet, filmmaker, and vestige of a kinder era.
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Another sunrise. This rotting tree trunk still stands, despite the ravages of weather and time. I think when you reach a certain age you know exactly how it feels to be in a form so unimaginable when you were young, and yet here you are. The warm sunlight will feel glorious. #sunrise #nature
A brown rotting tree trunk, with a deep reddish brown interior that is crumbling away, stands along a river, and is surrounded by younger trees sprouting from the snow covered ground. The rising sun paints the sky beyond in warm orange and red tones, which the surface of the water reflects in this sunrise photo.
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Home for winter. An unseen animal had made its nest in a hollow log on the banks of the Maumee River. Photographed in February of 2020. #nature #snow #blackandwhite
A snow covered hollow log has a round dark hole with dried bits of grass flowing out. It seems some animal has nested here for the winter in this black and white photo.
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Dawn with hoarfrost. Delicate crystals of hoarfrost covered every twig and stem of the underbrush along the river as the sun rose on a frigid February morning in 2021. #sunrise #water #hoarfrost #seasmoke #fog #nature #maumeeriver #ohio
Air much colder than the water flowing around the ice in the river spawn sea smoke, a type of fog. The black and brown stems and sticks of the vegetation along the bank are coated in white hoarfrost that is made of ice that forms without being a liquid. The snow below has a blue cast from the sky above, and the clouds of fog are orange and yellow from the warming sun being filtered by trees on the far bank in this sunrise photo.
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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As the ice grows. A view of the Ottawa River running through Wildwood Metropark, Toledo, OH. #nature #water #ice #winter #wildwoodmetropark #ohio
A dark river in a snowy landscape bereft of color and covered in bare trees. The water reflects the empty branches above.
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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As the veil of night descends. Tonight after sundown as the last light retreated from the sky.
A dark blue sky fades to a lighter shade where it meets dark gray clouds stretched thin over a ribbon of orange at the horizon. The shapes of far off trees mark the edge of the earth as it meets vast canvas above. A single point of light sits in the darkening sky, waiting to join others overhead.
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Meadow in winter. The contrast between the brown grasses and weeds against the blank sky and trees highlighted with snow gave me a real sense of awe. This was captured yesterday at Wildwood Metropark, Toledo, OH. #nature #hiking #winter #snow #wildwoodmetropark #ohio
Dead brown grasses and weeds fill the bottom of the image. Snow rests gently on the fragile plants. Trees that are bare, and some with brown leaves gather snow that was quietly falling from a gray sky.
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Winter wonderland. Went for a walk in Wildwood Metropark, Toledo, OH, as light snow fell the afternoon. #snow #winter #nature #wildwoodmeteopark #ohio
A damp path guarded my wooden railings covered in snow leads to a covered bridge in a scene with little color.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Pointing the way home. Clouds, likely formed by jets overflying, point to the West after the sun had set Friday night. #sunset #clouds #nature #sky #ohio
In a sky that fades from blue to yellow, dark gray clouds form lines making stripes that seem to point to the horizon. A band of light pink floats near the top, where the rays of the sun still reach. The silhouettes of trees make the boundary between earth and sky.
December 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A wintery sunset view. Autumn has been cut short here, and the gray days send me to the photo archive. Here's the view after a snowfall in February of 2021 on the Maumee River. #sunset #winter #water #nature #Maumeeriver #ohio
After a substantial snow, shadows grow long on the river as the sun begins to set. Golden light falls on the fresh snow and the leafless brown trees, while the water shimmers with a deep blue. The sky above takes on a slightly green hue, with purple clouds on the distant horizon beyond.
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Ice on the move. A view of the Medenhall Glacier in Juneau, AK from September of 2020.
A cloudy sky with some slivers of blue touches the tops of the mountains. The blue haze in the air tints the slopes. The glacier is blue and white with cracks and lines of black, and it flows into a lake at its base. Green pines and saplings grow in the foreground of this photo of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, AK.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Sunburst at sunset. A warming sun peaks through clouds and trees along the Miami-Erie Canal and Maumee River in the spring of 2022. #sunset #nature #water #ohio
Broken gray clouds near sunset allow a burst of light to filter through. Patches of blue sky are overhead, as the high water of spring races through the canal and river beyond.
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Dry riverbed in early light. Due to an ongoing drought, a set of rapids lies bare, except for some puddles and snow caps on rocks. #sunrise #water #nature #maumeeriver #winter
Under a purple sky with pink beginning to show behind the bare trees on the banks, rocks normally submerged in rapids sit uncomfortably with caps or snow and ice growing between them. The sun was rising, but the thickness of the clouds soon turned it all gray.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Young eagles at dawn. A pair of young bald eagles were following the river before the sun rose Monday. #nature #sunrise #birds #maumeeriver #ohio
The sky is a deep blue at the top, but fades at a warm orange color at the treetops. The dark river catches the shape of trees that line the bank, and the colors from above reflect in the choppy water. Two young bald eagles navigate the sky before the sun reaches the horizon.
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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When the joy won’t wait for day. Surprising color before sunrise on a crisp December morning. #sunrise #clouds #sky #water #maumeeriver #ohio
An eerie blue world is split with orange, red, purple and light green along the horizon, well before the sun arrives. Silhouetted weeds and branches of the foreground frame a river partially frozen, with a black line of trees defining the far bank on a cold morning.
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Delicate connection. Thin needles of ice hover above a new layer of thin ice below. Even a breath would destroy this incredible construct of nature between rocks in a quiet pool of the Maumee River before dawn. #nature #ice #hiking #maumeeriver
White feathers of ice have grown from frigid rocks and remained even as the water below receded. Below them, new ice forms between grayish brown rocks of a drying riverbed. No air was moving, as these delicate structures would surely not last long.
December 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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December begins at 14°F. Sunrise on the stone cold riverbed of the Maumee River this morning. #sunrise #nature #hiking #water #maumeeriver #ohio
Rocks of a riverbed with a dried algal layer giving them a green cast lie in the foreground. A thin layer of ice formed then was left suspended as the water level fell. Beyond is the water with ice ringed rocks leading to an island further away. The sky is gray, but turns orange near the horizon, as the sun approaches in this sunrise photo.
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Winter light. Though not quite winter, the weather certainly seems to be skipping ahead. Here's a sunset photo from a similarly cold day in January of 2022 along the banks of the Maumee River. #nature #sunset #winter #sun #water #maumeeriver #ohio
The silhouettes of bare tree branches are etched across a pale blue sky with thin white clouds that are tinged with yellow the closer they are to the sun. White snow on the riverbank, and water edges in a wide pathway of ice leads to the horizon, as the sun prepares to drop out of sight on a winter day.
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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When winter arrives. A snowstorm is forecast so I'd thought I'd share this view of the Miami-Erie Canal, now abandoned. Captured near Grand Rapids, OH in February of 2021. I'd rather cling to Fall than rush Winter, but I seem to have no say in the matter. #nature #snow #hiking #sunset
A canal appears recently frozen over, with green patches of ice and snowy banks, where the silhouettes of trees run to the horizon. A pale sky fades from light blue to weak yellow beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Just a walk in the woods. The view on a November day with sunshine in the Wintergarten/St. John’s Woods Preserve, Bowling Green, OH. #nature #fall #autumn #trees #ohio
Towering mature trees rise above a carpet of golden brown leaves with a bright sky of blue mixed with white clouds. The sun filters through the branches of the mostly leafless trees.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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For tomorrow. Close up of a lotus seed head on the shore of an estuary. #nature #seeds #blackandwhite
Irregular shaped holes in a dried seed head of a lotus. Some chambers are empty, and some contain the round seeds waiting to find their place in this black and white photo.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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What remains. A rotting stump of a hollowed out tree that fell sometime ago. We get a chance to see the hole from the inside. Discovered on Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Preserve, Bowling Green, OH. #nature #trees #hiking #fall #autumn #ohio
A rotting stump is what remains of a tree that had been hollowed out. The hole is now a window in brown, gray, and black stump.
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Golden November. A tree line on the edge of a grassy meadow in the sun. Seen while hiking in the Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Preserve in Bowling Green, OH. #nature #autumn #fall #leaves #sky #hiking #bowlinggreen #ohio
Golden brown dead grasses cover a meadow that is edged with trees clinging to orangish-brown leaves under a bright blue sky veiled with thin white puffy clouds on a sunny November day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The coming day. Moments ago as the sky is painted by the rising sun on the banks of the Maumee River. #sunrise #nature #clouds #trees #maumeeriver #ohio
The silhouette of a thin tree runs diagonally from the top left to the bottom right across a canvas of reds, yellows, oranges, pinks and powdered blue. Other trees stand straight on the banks of a river cutting through the landscape below the horizon. It reflects the mix of colors from above, as the sun rises out of sight.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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After the blooming. Dried flower in a meadow at Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Preserve in Bowling Green, OH on gloriously sunny November day. #hiking #nature #flowers #fall #autumn #ohio
Five gray dried flower heads are in sharp focus with others below out of focus against a golden brown backdrop of dried grasses and underbrush in a meadow on a bright and sunny fall day.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Tree without boundaries. Over time this tree has consumed half the sign nailed to it. #blackandwhite #trees #nature
Gray fields of grass are home to a black tree with a white sign with black lettering sticking out of its large limb in this black and white photo.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM