Quote of the Day (Francis Ledwidge, on the ‘Fair Tanned Face of June’)

“Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by,
And plant this bee-sucked bough of woodbine there,
And let the window down. The butterfly
Floats in upon the sunbeam, and the fair
Tanned face of June, the nomad gipsy, laughs
Above her widespread wares, the while she tells
The farmers' fortunes in the fields, and quaffs
The water from the spider-peopled wells.”— Irish poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917), “June,” in The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge (1919)
 
I took the image accompanying this post on June day 11 years ago at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy, not far from where I live in Bergen County, NJ.
 
(Thanks to my friend Rob for bringing this poem to my attention.)

Photo of the Day: Ready for Its Close-Up

An image not out of Robert Frost, i.e., stopping by woods on a sultry early summer afternoon. Yet another one in a series of images I took a few weeks ago at the Teaneck Creek Park, operated by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy—not far from where I live in Bergen County, N.J.

Photo of the Day: Time Tunnel

This post is a companion to one I put up a few weeks ago showing “ecoart,” one of five former drainage pipes in the woods at the Teaneck Creek Park, operated by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy. The interior of this pipe, like the other four, pictures periods in the history of the land from prehistory to the present. It was created five years ago by muralist Eduardo Alexander Rabel with the help of area schoolchildren and adult volunteers.

Photo of the Day: Overhanging

Still another in a series of images I took a few weeks ago at the Teaneck Creek Park, operated by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy—not far from where I live in Bergen County, N.J.

Photo of the Day: Leaning Tree

This is yet another in a series of images I took a few weeks ago at the Teaneck Creek Park, operated by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy—not far from where I live in Bergen County, N.J.

Photo of the Day: Creek in the Woods

I took the image accompanying this post a few weeks ago at the Teaneck Creek Park, operated by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy—not far from where I live in Bergen County, N.J.

Photo of the Day: Light at the Center

I took the image accompanying this post a few weeks ago at the Teaneck Creek Park, operated by the Teaneck Creek Conservancy—not far from where I live in Bergen County, N.J.

(Thanks to my friend Judy for suggesting the use of this shot.)