RMW Ramblings

  Sunrise Sandbar Heron To protect the wetlands, a sandbar barrier was created along the Havre de Grace waterfront Promenade.  It is now completely naturalized, but early on it was the site of various stonework temporary compositions,  stonework sculptural graffiti.  I lamented their demise, but they did not fit Maryland's preservation plans.  Of course the sandbar was not natural itself. Here I photographed a heron at morning sunrise at a  ring cairn or micro Stonehenge.

  Heron Hiding Another heron on a HdG waterfront walk.    

  Heron in Golden Sunrise Morning walks by the water in Havre de Grace are  visual feasts. The low morning sun gives texture to the water, silhouetting and shadowing the heron. 

A Live, But Impressionist Heron  On a walk in Havre de Grace along the water, I spotted this heron.  In the low light and at a distance I snapped a picture, which I have enlarged and color slightly boosted to make this impressionistic picture.  More herons to come.

  Thrift Store Book Sales In thrift stores the used books are usually shelved randomly or in loose categories. But here we have shelved by color...   And another, just clutter...    

  Greater Than the Moon, Lesser Than the Sun One night the Blessed Virgin Mary came to me in a dream. She requested that I create an image of her "Greater than the Moon, lesser than the Sun."   While I never considered this more than an odd dream, I kept thinking about it for a few months.   Eventually I created this painting.   The frame was salvaged from a broken mirror.  The arched top suggested the Sun/halo.   I added a pomegranate in Mary's hand.   This fruit is frequently associated with Mary in art and is considered to be the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. You will also find Mary's twelve stars, the Marian monogram familiar to Catholics from the miraculous medal, and the title phrase in Latin which I also symbolized.  

  Frenzy Frenzy looks up Broad Street in Philadelphia at the city hall.  The frenetic gulls echoing the evening commuter rush. The domed building on the left, now a hotel entry, was a series of banks which I remember as Girard Trust Corn Exchange.