Tag Archives: dusk

Dusk After the Storm, as the Creek Rises and Falls

Dusk After the Storm, 9 x 12, pastel © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

So many storms lately, and I watch the creek rise and fall, one moment 12 inches deep and silently placid but so quickly a rushing torrent several feet deep. A storm overtook us as we paddled canoes and kayaks down Chartiers Creek one evening. We took out and watched it from among trees on the […]

Dusk After the Storm, Canoeing the Creek

A storm overtook us as we paddled canoes and kayaks down Chartiers Creek one evening. We took out and watched it from among trees on the bank as the world turned black then fogged with rain, lightning struck just over the hills around us and the creek ran faster and faster and rose foot by […]

Dusk in the Woods

I took the reference photos for this painting on January 30, 2005, so it’s an anniversary of sorts. It’s a painting of the woods in snow, but in addition to how I love snow and to be in the woods, it’s also deeply connected to several other things in my life in a special way. […]

Captivating Sycamore Moon

"Sycamore Moon", pastel, 14" x 20" © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

Today’s full moon is the last full moon of winter, when she sits like a pearl strung in a mesh of bare branches. This is most often called the Worm Moon, but I had always known it as the Sap Moon or the Sugar Moon because the sugar begins to flow in sugar maple trees […]

June Nature Desktop Calendar: Dusk After the Storm

Desktop calendar, 1280 x 1024 for square and laptop monitors.

June is the month when Chartiers Creek is still running high enough for a good canoe trip. It’s also a month for storms as summer heat moves in. A storm overtook us as we paddled canoes and kayaks down Chartiers Creek one evening. We took out and watched it from among trees on the bank […]

December Featured Nature Art and Desktop Calendar: “Dusk in the Woods”

Dusk in the Woods, pastel, 31″ x 23″, 2007 © Bernadette E. Kazmarski

A fitting way to celebrate the winter holidays and send off the year, with a painting of the “blue hour”, “l‘heure bleue“, that time of transition. Though it is a painting of the woods in snow this painting is still connected to my felines and to my life in a very deep and special way, […]

Captivating Sycamore Moon

Two large sycamore trees stand near the entrance of the Panhandle Trail, but because they grow against a hill I don’t see them from this angle against the sky until I am headed back home, nearly at the trailhead, and often at dusk, especially the early dusk of a winter night. Because the light changes […]