descent

1st wave

invasion

Venus

wave

Hokusai

The Lament for Icarus

Herbert James Draper Tate Gallery-London

carousel

Angel

1st day of school

Blessed Trinity, Angel

Blessed Trinity

Blessed Trinity Church

Buffalo, New York



sanctus

             "I turn my eyes to the mountains;from where shall come my help?  My help shall come from the   
                 Lord, the maker of heaven and earth"                                                        Psalm 121:1-2

lace

lashes

        " You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money 
        Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't
        take their eyes off of you".                                 Maya Angelou

heavens

Other by Robert Creeley


Having begun in thought there
in that factual embodied wonder
what was lost in the emptied lovers
patience and mind I first felt there
wondered again and again what for
myself so meager and finally singular
despite all issued therefrom whether
sister or mother or brother and father
come to love's emptied place too late
to feel it again see again first there
all the peculiar wet tenderness the care
of her for whom to be other was first fate.

Beam

sundown

                                         "colours are the wounds of light "  William Blake



queen anne's lace

shadow & light

"when you've seen beyond yourself,

then you may find, peace of mind

is waiting there" George Harrison

sweet nectar

Tiger Swallow Tail

full circle

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is.  In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."                                 Frederick Buechner

full circle

bridge

morning

"Intensity is silent,its image is not.

I love everything that dazzles me

and then accentuates the darkness

within me."               Rene' Char

Preservation Hall Jazz

Holiday

brute

easy rider

support

beauty still

"To be wise is to be eternally curious."

                                                                                                  Frederick Bruechner



Happy Father's Day

“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.” John O'Donohue

Joseph M. Verrastro Sr. circa 1958

explore

...and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the wind longs to play with your hair...

                                                                                                                    Khalil Gibran

time

stream

stream

stream

field

field

field

         a dream

         pales sunlight
         diffused by sheer curtains
         plays on my face.
          disrupting--
         as I cling to
         a dream of you
         like trying to hold
         smoke
         after a candle
         has been blown out.    Mary Jones

     



Excerpt

Lorica of Saint Patrick

I arise today

Through the strength of heaven;

Light of the sun,

Splendor of fire,

Speed of lightning,

Swiftness of the wind,

Depth of the sea,

Stability of the earth,

Firmness of the rock.

Pablo Picasso, still life with chair caning 1912

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect

when it began, or if there was a  time when it was not.

It has no future but itself,Its infinite realms contain

its past, enlightened to perceive new periods of pain.        

 Emily Dickinson



visions

visions

Maria



visions

visions

Joe's Garden Peonies

quartet

Frank & Alex

Alfie & Alex

Willow Weep for Me