Author: Cameron Brooks
Hello Falco
The fastest animal on earth perched beside a warm stucco wall soaked with a day’s sunlight grooms himself seven floors above A1A. Barred feathers float slowly.
Aquatic Flora
Great Egret, Ardea alba
Lofton Monsters
Time Along Lofton Creek
The towering cypress on the left occupies an eight foot diameter half a mile from Pages Dairy Road in Yulee, Florida. The oldest known cypress in the world (burned in 2012 by a meth addict) was seventeen and a half feet wide and approximately 2000 years old, so this conifer has at least a millennium on any awkward biped rowing below its baobesque branches.
New growth hints at futility.
Fontainebleau State Park
Azure Over Emerald
Green Light Over Canal Street
94% Humidity Over Claypit Pond
Beaversign
“Usul, we have beaversign the likes of which even God has never seen!”
Living Plasma Globe
Low Tide on the St Marys
November Ebb and Flow
Clouds Over Coves
Ian Marshall’s poems that accompany these photographs are from his book, Walden By Haiku.
those clouds
how they hang
nothing like it in paintings
dark now
the wind still roars
the waves still dash
paddle strike
the surrounding woods filled
with circling sound
a delicious evening
the whole body
one sense
trembling circles seek the shore
every disturbance
smoothed away
waves reflecting the sky
a darker blue
than the sky itself
Lake Jocassee Geology
On Spending Time Outdoors
How do you fortify yourself?
Buttonbush Pollination
A year ago this month I discovered a white, spherical flower growing beside a narrow creek. Seven months later I bought a used kayak, and now I meet buttonbush all the time along lakes and rivers.
Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia
Blood Mountain Vista
Pedagogy of the Plants 