Morning Eye Candy: Cirrus
Posted in Around the Garden on September 21st, 2012 by Matt Newman – Be the first to commentTo see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee –
Emily Dickinson
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posts Tagged ‘clouds’
What’s Beautiful Now: Looking Up!
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography, What's Beautiful Now on July 12th, 2012 by Matt Newman – Be the first to comment
Montana may lay claim to the phrase “big sky country,” but New York is no slouch when it comes to panoramic vistas. Near a hilltop, or just beyond the boughs of the Forest‘s trees, you can catch the blue expanse above the NYBG without the cityscape that usually frames it. No radio towers, no skyscrapers marking up the periphery–just clouds of every shape and consistency.
It’s good for daydreaming.
On afternoons where the barometer reads high and the sun is clear, you see opal blue in rich or dusky shades. Other days, the sky is a scatter of swoops and ruffles that you’d have to climb pretty high to enjoy elsewhere in the city. But as I remember it, “show, don’t tell” is a rule you pick up in middle school language arts class. I suppose I should follow it, huh?
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