I can't believe this received no comments. When it went up (almost a year ago), it took my breath away. I don't know what it is, or how these pieces envelop me, but they do. Part of it is your hues---these big oceans of blues and blue-greens, with violets and purples and oranges and reds floating over them. These almost look like metallic hues, like discolorations on a copper plate. And I can see your lines in there too. But that big central shape---found in some earlier pieces of yours as well---that cross-like shape, right in the center of it all: Beautiful. A big Beethoven-like accent. So much going on in that "T" (or cross), with the hues moving in-and-out of each other. And once again, you've outlined it---as you have in other pieces---indicating the "property boundary". But not in a prohibiting way, just a delicate set of lines. It almost looks like stained glass... And then a bird again, entering the big cross, soon to fly away...There's a passage from an Old English writing---800 A.D., maybe: It says that people are gathered in a castle, and suddenly a bird flies into the castle and quickly flies out. Everyone watches the bird, silently. The writer says that life is like that: Ie, we are gathered for a while, our life flies in and lingers a moment, and then flies out forever, never to be seen again. Well, it's a rather dark account of life, something quick, fleeting, disappearing (very apt for the Middle Ages, when life was truly quick and dangerous). But the beautiful part of that passage is that life is filled with sudden and unexplained "visitations"---that's the part that lingers from that passage. And that's what happens in a number of your images: Sudden visitations, unexplained occurences which come into our lives and then fly away. These visiting birds are like carriers of talismans, or messengers who have secrets we can only know 'in part'---they fly through our lives, carry mysteries, and fly away. And you---the 2D photographer---caught them just as they were passing through. A very powerful image with real delicacy inside it. Wonderful---and I can't believe I'm the first person to comment on it. This site doesn't know what it's missing...