Skunk Cabbage - Sweet as Spring

My first trip into the woods after snowmelt this Spring was at that moment when only the Skunk Cabbage had pushed its way toward the light. No other spring wildflowers had yet emerged. Unable to contain my zeal for the season I took an image of a small patch of Skunk cabbage and turned it into an image I've titled "Spring's First Bloom" and a second, monochrome print "Springs Dance of Form". Here are the two images from that effort.

Springs First Bloom

Spring's First Bloom:
Skunk Cabbage is the first plant that pokes through the ground in New England. This image is a treatment of Skunk Cabbage as a blossom of spring. This image is a hand colored monochrome image.

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Springs Dance of Form

#2 Springs Dance of Form:
A surreal abstract created from a clump of Skunk Cabbage printed in monochrome to emphasize the form and beauty of the image.

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The Dance of Lupine and Birch

The month long (June) Lupine Festival in the Northcounty towns of New Hampshire is one of the most beautiful experiences a flower lover can have. Sharing the roads, fields and trails with other lupine lovers provides one with a bonding experience that you will never forget.

The image below, "Dance of Lupine and Birch" is a pure capture with one slight alteration. In finishing the image I converted the entire image to a monochromatic (black and white) image and then restored color to everything except the birches. This "purified" the whites of the birch trees and created an interesting contrast between the trees and the flowers.

Dance of Lupine and Birch

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A Canterbury (New Hampshire) Tale

By Theresa Ludwig
Photos by Daniel Ludwig

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A minstrel there is, and he a durable man
Of seventy-five, but eighteen when he first began
A tenable life of music and poetry,
Candor, determination, and autonomy.
Full conscious was he of music’s prose,
And therefore did he call out to those,
By voice and fiddle, who would hear,
And would answer to the clarion clear.
In New England and beyond
Feet move, hands join, hearts dance to his song.

Like Geoffrey Chaucer, I have a pilgrimage to recount, though mine was to a barn dance rather than a shrine. Even so, devotees of Dudley Laufman, fiddler and traditional dance caller and Jacqueline Laufman, who together make up ‘Two Fiddles,’ reminded me of the “Knight,” the “Wife,” and the “Merchant” of Chaucer’s tales. The Laufmans, soon to celebrate 20 years as a twosome joined at the fiddle, invited me to a kitchen “junket” at Wind in the Timothy, their home.

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