Black and White – Page 39 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

the best teacher

dog and baby — Line taught them how to move on four legs. How to crawl the gravel without discomfort. Dog mind god mind, good mind.

waypoints

father and son — Who do you love. How do you love. Did you make it clear enough? Sitting with my dad before he left on his journey for forever.

Non anatomical

Jacksonville Beach — gumby style

Jesuit School

grandfather at grade school — May 14, 1896. Grandfather on the front row to the right.

grandfather, father and sister. A moment of family photographed by my mom. My dad died 31 years ago today.

a variety of times

bad baby food — spectrum of contentedness

holding hands

tires in the water

After thirty years of watching six tires in the water I finally moved them to a recycle center.

Matilda and the Bur oak branch

dog and q macrocarpa — in the field of 100 oaks

the natural world intervenes

slabtown herd — looking up from the phone

naturalized Canada geese — animal life.

differential emergence

bare bur oak — Microclimate, soil, genetics, on board afflictions. This Bur oak has yet to leaf out.

Fifty feet away is another individual who has had a flush of growth, producing new stems replete with leaves. Nature is an enduring mystery.

quercus rubra

quercus rubra

quercus rubra — Hard to take the color out of this one.