The Sunbeam - Poetry by Sarah Myers

Sunlight
Photography (c) Sarah Myers 2019

A droplet from the fountain of the Sun
Rolled through my window to my floor today;
I saw it melt like molten sugar, run,
And flow together, laughing as it lay.

I touched it, barely, with an outstretched toe;
It climbed my foot, and like a tiny bird
Sat perched with golden feathers all aglow
To sing the sweetest silence.  And I heard.

The Christmas Tree - Art and Photography by Sarah Myers

Christmas Tree, 2016
Photography and paper ornaments by Sarah Myers

“Here in a little crib lies He whose reign is without end,” sings an old carol, and in keeping with the Christmas spirit of the birth, the childhood of God, we often decorate with cheerful, toy-like ornaments. This year I have brought out these again, a smiling star at the top of the tree, a smug sheep, a toy soldier, a camel. But the great amount of the decoration is a snowstorm of cut-paper flakes – each a different pattern, fragile artwork taking time and concentration in spite of its simple technique. Many of these snowflakes have been adorning the tree every Christmastime for years, but an avalanche on the north side of the fir is made up of flakes or medallions created this winter. The tree beneath is real – a six-and-a-half foot Noble Fir, smelling of evergreen needles and resin.

Christmas Snowfall
Photography, cut paper ornaments and tiny gift-bearer by Sarah Myers

A Christmas tree covered in whirling snow...
Sarah Myers

Caught in a Snowstorm
Sandro, the little glass soldier from Italy, and an angel smile amid the huge flakes and starry lights

Christmas tree and ornamental screen

North Side of the Christmas Tree
The side facing our kitchen holds the snowflakes I cut this year

The Christmas Fir
Although the tree is visible through three doorways, this view is essentially its front.

A Snowy Christmas Tree
In front, my sculpture carries flowers from the still-blooming desert garden.  In the background, a painting I created, and which I bring out for the Christmas Season, hangs on the wall.

Ornaments on the Tree
Details of the cut paper medallions we call snowflakes - some in patterns of flowers, leaves, fruit and palms.

East Side of the Tree
Snowflakes, glass baubles, a toy orange

The Small Angel
An announcing angel I created last year

Christmas Atmosphere
Christmas 2016, Sarah Myers

Still-life with Sculpture and Pot of Flowers - Photography by Sarah Myers

Photographic Still-life with Sculpture and Pot of Flowers, Sarah Myers
Ceramic Pottery by Amy Myers
Sculpture by Sarah Myers

A small post – a photographic still-life with a sculpture in terracotta, a pot filled with garden flowers, and a few books on an antique gilded table. The ceramic pot is hand-built by my sister Amy Myers, and is in the same red earthenware as my figure of a woman with windblown cloak.

Bright Afternoon Bouquet - Photography by Sarah Myers

Brilliant Flowers
Photography by Sarah Myers

A small cluster of flowers becomes a flaming torch of joyful colour in the afternoon sunlight.  The simple vase with a brown-black "volcanic" glaze was made by my sister Amy Myers.  It holds a cluster of ruby-red, orange, and orange-yellow nasturtiums, a bunch of scarlet pelargoniums (geraniums) and three cheerful tetraneuris daisies.  These - the yellow daisies at the top - came from Amy's desert garden, while the other blooms are from my pots of flowers in the patio.

Cluster of Flowers
Photography, Sarah Myers

Nasturtium Detail
Photography, Sarah Myers

Bright Bouquet in Afternoon Light
Photography, Sarah Myers

Three Favorite Flower Pictures - Photography by Sarah Myers

The Red Ranunculus, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

Here are three flower images to welcome the new spring; the rich, flawless scarlet of a superb ranunculus bloom, the angelic shower of jasmine trumpets lighting the evening shade, and the perfect symbol of happiness, a yellow daisy against a cloudless blue sky.  Daisy and ranunculus are growing in my sister's garden, a dream-like spot you can read about here; the jasmine is a vine I've placed in the pillared patio of our house.

Trumpets of Spring, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

Yellow and Blue, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

Bright Flowers Light a Dim Day - Photography by Sarah Myers

Bright Bouquet, Sarah Myers
Photography

     On an overcast day, these bright colours came inside - simply a yellow rose, a dark red rose, cherry-coloured geraniums, some orange lantana. In a graceful vessel by my sister Amy Myers, they bring a vivid fistful of beauty to the room, like the music of trumpets and violins on an empty, still noon.

Flowers on a Dim Day, Sarah Myers
Photography

Visitors to the Garden - Photography by Sarah Myers

Bees on Silver and Gold, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

   Diligent bees with gold bands and filmy wings, humming in and out of the flowers - the ferocious-looking but most welcome guardian of the garden, a giant bronze dragonfly - the tiny silver glint of a blue-gray butterfly, with a curled tongue still tasting sweetness - all these small visitors have been spotted among the flowers, taking as their own world the beauty and brightness of the garden. I captured these images in my sister's garden in the desert, whose progress you can read about here; the pictures are from late summer, early autumn days when the air was full of busy creatures, full of this smaller world which we gladly welcome as our own.  

Guardian of the Desert Garden, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

Silver on Rose, Sarah Myers
Digital Photography

The Colours of White - Photography by Sarah Myers

Jasmine White
Sarah Myers, Photography

What are the colours of white? The pure scent of the jasmine blossom, the billowing shoulders of an unstained cloud; the pearl-cold, pearl-small dot of the moon among the palm-fronds; the delicious ivory of a new rose; that burst of exultant happiness, the Star of Bethlehem flower; the frail lace of an apricot bloom which is the delight of an eager bee. Here are many tints of white, the colour without shadow.

Ivory, Cream and White
Sarah Myers, Photography

Cloud White
Sarah Myers, Photography

Star of Bethlehem
Sarah Myers, photography

Moon-White
Sarah Myers, photography

Spring-White and Bee
Sarah Myers, photography

Heart of the Matter - Photography by Sarah Myers

Bud-Red, Sarah Myers
Photography

  

 Here are seven images - the centers of roses, each holding their own small world of grace and gentleness.

Heart in Ivory and Champagne, Sarah Myers
Photography

Gentle Storm, Sarah Myers
Photography

The Shy Look, Sarah Myers
Photography

Pearl Pink, Pearl White, Sarah Myers
Photography

Charm of the Sun, Sarah Myers
Photography

Heart of It All, Sarah Myers
Photography

Roses and Rainstorm - Photography by Sarah Myers

Roses After Rainstorm, Sarah Myers
Photography

A moment after the last glittering rain has fallen, rose blooms sway against the sky, drinking the cool air and the bright water. It is a glimpse of a gentle magnificence, refreshing the mind...

Rain-Bloom, Sarah Myers
Photography

The Evening Cloud - Photography by Sarah Myers

Tumult
Sarah Myers, Photography

    One immense cloud-bank spread its towers across the South-eastern sky as the sun went down opposite. Scaling the clear, empty desert night, the cresent moon looked backward at these monarchs of water and air, who took the form of a fantastical surf, a radiant bastion of remaining day, a crowd of staring faces, an ethereal fog of cold blue and pearl-pink. At last the clouds disappeared in the rising night, save for an occasional, sullen flash of lightening.  The moon continued on its way, growing brighter and lonelier and stronger. But the night remains only in the imagination, while the clouds and the last of the sun left their glory, in some small way, in this collection of pictures.

      Except for cropping and my signature, there is no edit on these pictures. They are what the camera saw. 

Sunset Tower and Moon
Sarah Myers, Photography

Evening Tide
Sarah Myers, Photography

Splendor, Sunset, Moon
Sarah Myers, Photography

Coming Dreams
Sarah Myers, Photography

Moon-clouds
Sarah Myers, Photography

Simple Roses and Sky - Photography by Sarah Myers

Simple Rose, Arch and Sky
Sarah Myers, Photography

Returning from a walk in my sister's rose garden, the radiance of these roses against the sky persuaded me to create a post dedicated to their grace. They are simple, open blooms because of the warmth and light, the late summer brightness you see surrounding them.

Roses in a Warm Breeze.
Sarah Myers, Photography

The Clouds - Photography by Sarah Myers

The Many Clouds
Photography, Sarah Myers

 While the earth of the desert twinkles monotonously and changelessly mile after mile, with gravel and the dark network of dry creosote bushes, the sky stretches over it a reign of overwhelming, unshakable but temperamental power. And on those days when into the intense and endless blue sail the giants of the sky - the desert thunderheads - it is as if a mighty, unknown world has opened out above, with its own language of wind, light and space. We small strangers peer upward into the next sphere...

Sonora Desert, 2015

All of these pictures are straight from camera. 

Tranquility of Storm
Photograph, Sarah Myers

Through
Photograph, Sarah Myers

Aura and Wind
Photograph, Sarah Myers

Mysterious Blue
Photograph, Sarah Myers

Intertwined Worlds
Photograph, Sarah Myers

Bright and Vast
Photograph, Sarah Myers