Maple Seeds

May 18, 2011
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It is somehow appropriate that I renew Mental Seeds with a post about seeds themselves.  Seeds hold the promise of renewal and after months of insignificant distractions and artificial deadlines I need to re-invigorate. My left eye continues to be blurry, now with a cataract resulting from all the surgeries for the detached retina.  In [...]

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Madrone Berries

March 7, 2011
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My vision in the left eye is still quite blurry.  Unless I really concentrate on what I am seeing, my right eye dominates and I simply have a hazy sense of looming weirdness.  And unless I stick my head up real close to something, color washes out. So to see these Madrone berries I stuck [...]

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Grace in Tapestry

February 16, 2011
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As I was poking around my garden last fall, adjusting to my vision and letting the new wonders reveal themselves to me, I decided to keep my big smokebush, Cotinus ‘Grace’. It is a monster of a shrub, every year growing way beyond its allotted space in my mixed border.  Until last November I had [...]

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Back to Work

February 6, 2011
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I first posted this picture to my Gardening Gone Wild post Depths of Perception 2 months ago as I began exploring my new vision after the vitrectomy.  At that time, despite the worries over my eye, I was giddy with new photos.  I couldn’t wait to get to work on those photos to really convey [...]

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My Father Died Today

January 13, 2011

My father died today. Micajah Quincy Holt (1914-2011). And that is the end. I guess. ::: (am i sad ?) ::: I walk into the garden, Where my father taught me. The sky is too huge Everywhere He is smiling broadly That sly warm wink “Sax, I’m here. It’s wonderful. I slipped in.” ::: We [...]

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Retinal Tears

January 6, 2011
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Retinal tears and fears of darkness, What DO I actually see ? Lightning strike laser; pain visualized, (how odd this queasy flash). The wet drops from my eye splashes my glasses, remembering the first rain and sprinkling Cotinus Grace.

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Kanjiro Blur

December 15, 2010
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After the eye surgery, when I first started exploring what I could see, or not, with my left eye, I went looking for color.  The first realization that I could see anything the least bit artistically interesting was when I studied the white flower of Camellia sasanqua ‘Apple Blossom’ after brushing against it in the [...]

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The Gas Bubble

December 9, 2010
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In order for the eye to heal after retina surgery, the doctors put a nitrous oxide gas bubble into the eye.  This is just enough pressure to hold the retina in place while it heals.  The bubble is the reason my eyesight is so blurry in the left eye. Depending on how I hold my [...]

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M’Eyes

December 8, 2010
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I have a one very unusual optic nerve – my left one.  I have often, rather flippantly, credited my career choice as a photographer to my optic nerve coloboma.  It has never been more than a fascinating curiosity to optometrists, until now, until Dr Richard McDonald of West Coast Retina began explaining the need for [...]

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This Can’t Be Happening

November 30, 2010
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This is the deck behind my house, sideways and blurry. The day I went to see the eye doctor, I shot a video of the deck after talking with an editor at Taunton Books about future projects.  I used the video feature of my G11 to shoot the deck as a potential photo location, but [...]

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