"Pollination" 18 x 24 acrylic on canvas

Pollination is a struggle for survival for a plant. It's a moment when a plant or tree puts forth much of it's energy stores into producing the elements to assure the next generation of it's species. As digital cameras and computers have allowed me to enter the amazing world of plants and flowers close-up, I'm convinced more than ever, that with every budding and pollinating flower; a new universe for the most part unseen by our eyes... is evolving.

Utica....looking past the potholes

Like a bug looking up through myopic eyes, or a birds eye view from high atop Val Bialas, I try to look around or not see the streets so full of potholes,the boarded up homes and the vacant commercial buildings. images from Utica; "A Bug's Eye View"