if you look at the last dozen STILL blog photos you will recognize where all these bits and pieces came from.  they gather on my desk in little piles.  sometimes i wonder if they breed, because i never remember making quite that many piles.  sometimes i sort them by color. sometimes by shape. sometimes by kind. one would think, after two years of doing STILL blog, that it would get easier to take my photo, and then let go. much to my surprise, and my family’s i suppose, the opposite has happened. i see so much beauty and potential in each stem, each seed pod, each leaf…that i have become as obsessed with these bits of nature as my son is with legos.  i guess you could say that STILL blog has reminded me how to be 1o years old again.

a winter collections of twigs, stems, galls, seeds, leaves, cones, and rocks.

all from minnesota, except the stripey rocks which came from finistère, france