Winter's End ~ Winter's Stones
& Winter's Meadow Plants
Photographs Made in February & March 2025
The photographs in this brief project are self-explanatory in the way
that they describe the ever-changing and yet beautiful light, color
and temperature-atmospheric affects. ~ On the ground level
we have several raised beds for growing mostly vegetables
herbs and flowers. When we close them down for the
winter I place stones on the edges of the beds and
then watch they changes they undergo throughout
the winter months. The stones become animated
creatures at times for me. In the first image their
little heads seem to be emerging from the snow
to enjoy the transforming power of the snow and fog.
All of the images were drawn from my 18x18" Inkjet Print Project
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #1 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (February 2025)Bird Bath full with snow and ice, an early winter morning
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #2 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (February 2025)Soft warm light on the cold winter scene--with tilted bird feeder pole--just below our picture window
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #3 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Sunset in late winter over the south meadow and pond with fragments of the last snow drifts
When I place the stones on the edges of the beds before winter sets in,
I also cover our deck table, and a cart (with wheels) with waterproof
tarps. I place stones on the tarps to help hold them in place for
those winter days and nights when the winds blow frighteningly
fast over our deck which is twelve feet above the ground.
The stones also serve as "still life" objects.
Regarding Image #3 above, I took the picture at sunset on a very cold day thinking of how
the fragments of snow drifts resemble the stones that I placed at the base of the tarp
covering our round deck table--as shown in the photograph below. The vertical
shadows overlaying the image (which look like jail bars*) were created by
the deck's surrounding wooden railings.
(*Note: the reference to "jail bars" is related to how I see Trump's debilitating
and illegal "Executive Actions" he has been creating in an attempt to
destroy the freedoms associated with our great American
experiment: DEMOCRACY.
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #3 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Warm sunsetting winter light & shadows on our tarp-covered round deck table anchored with stones & rope
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #4 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Blue-green stone in tarp-covered cart puddle with rain circles
The image above initiates a series of six "portraits" of the same one
stone presented in varying changes of light, weather and points-of view.
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #5 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Snow-covered stone and tarp
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Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #6 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Cold (blue) spring morning with frozen rain on the stone & tarp-covered cart
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #7 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)
Stone in iced water on the tarp-covered deck cart
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Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #8 18x18" Square Inkjet Prints (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Soft cloud-covered light, on a warm windy spring-like day, unveiling the stone again & parts of the tarp
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #9 18x18" Square Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Warm sun-setting winter's-end light on the stone (and its reflection) which has
become an animal crouching in a puddle on our tarp-covered cart
Winter's End & Winter's Stones
Image #10 18x18" Square Inkjet Print (on 20x24"base) (March 2025)Warm light on the stone in water with reflections of its surroundings and several gold-like parts of the tarp
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~ Epilogue ~
Winter's Meadow Plants
Nine "Snow Drawings"
Image #11 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing, Meadow bush with light blue snow
Image #12 Winter's End & Winter's Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing, Red-Thorned Twig
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Image #13 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing: Meadow plants
Image #14 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing: Windblown Meadow Plants in snow
Image #15 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing: Dancing Meadow Plants in the snow
Image #16 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing Arched Meadow plant in snow
Snow Drawing: Windblown plant stems in snow (with two eyes)
Image #18 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing: Face with two eyes, a nose and an admiring couple
Image #19 Winter's End & Winter's Meadow Plants 12x12 Square Inkjet Print
Snow Drawing: A line of snow-covered stones on a raised garden bed
This project was posted on my blog's Welcome Page
April 17, 2025
(The Epilogue was added April 26, 2025)
Related Blog Project Links
Time & Timlessness A Thematic Project from The Complete 2023, 24 & 2025 Inkjet Print Project
Things In Their Place A 12x12" Thematic PROJECT
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This link includes all of the 12x12" Books and Thematic PROJECTS
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