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I’ve got more new photos coming tomorrow… but here’s one I liked while editing.

“He whose self is established in Yoga, whose vision everywhere is even, sees the Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self.” Bhagavad-Gita 6:29

In case you didn’t get it, this week’s newsletter features the Frozen Orchards I have been photographing. A new feature of the newsletter this week is that I now offer framed prints of all the pictures in the newsletter.

I just added a few more framed prints to my website. Go to Framed Prints to see them.

This Thursday I will be mailing out cards for the month of May to everyone in the Card of the Month Club. If you want to sneak into the club in time to get May’s cards, click here before it’s too late.

The cards for May are these three below:

It turns out all the orchards are leaving their sprinklers on in the freezing weather. This morning I photographed this orchard just a 100 yards in back of us.

Apparently the ice protects the buds from hard frost. It seems a little like soaking a carpet to protect it from flood to me, but I don’t know much about growing fruit trees. The flower buds do look pretty ok. Who’da thunk it!

Check out the new photos at Straight From The Camera.

This morning I got a call from Blaine’s sister, Bev, saying that there was an orchard covered with icicles down the road. It was cold last night and the orchardists left their sprinklers on to “protect” the flower buds from the frost.

When I arrived, I realized that it was the same orchard that I photographed last week with ice on it, but this time the icicles were much larger (about a foot long) and every branch of every tree was covered.

Check out all the photos at the Straight From The Camera section of my site.

If there’s someone you want to send icicles to, you’ve now got the greeting cards to do it!

I set out this morning looking for a few good shots. We had snow here again, and I thought I could find some nice images on snow on flowers, etc.

But you know, some days you’re better off staying home. I poked around for a little while until I realized that the problem was not a lack of scenery but my own fatigue.

They aren’t lying when they say beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. My tired eyes simply could not behold the beauty around me.

So I came home and took a nap!

Check out this week’s newsletter featuring Apricot Blossoms.

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I felt as blissful this morning after photographing as I do after a long meditation. Is photography a kind of meditation?

For me the answer is yes. Meditation to me is anything that allows my mind to experience increasing subtlety. When I start photographing I often feel like it takes a while to “warm up.” As I continue it starts getting subtle. At the end I don’t want to quit.

What’s your experience? Does increasing subtlety in something you do feel like meditation to you?

I was out photographing the apricot blossoms again this morning. You can see the new photos in my Straight From The Camera section of the site.