I invite you to join me for a visual meditation inspired by several of Nancie Battaglia’s recent photographs. Meadow meandering — aimless, tranquil, curious, attuned to the sounds and sights enveloping me — is one of my favorite ways to unwind.
The three photographs in this post are actually subtle shifts in perspective on the same view. Capturing bucolic byways and breathtaking views is Nancie’s gift. Has been for decades. But these images, so understated and uncontrived, are testament to her gift for transporting us, the viewers of her photographs, into the scene.
Today’s images follow up the cross-country skiing post, “Cross-Country Skiing Fields & Forests“, published on February 23, 2025, that offered a vicarious chance to cross-country ski some of Rosslyn’s meadows.
Meadow meandering offers an intimate immersion in these simultaneously soothing and invigorating environs. Sounds and rhythms a little wilder revitalize. I feel alert. Receptive. Wandering induces wondering. Nancie’s composition echoes my own experience standing in a snowy field. My eyes are drawn from the snow-covered foreground, through near trees, then further trees, to a group of historic buildings, to the expansive lake and the mountains beyond. I’m 100% present in a serene winter moment in a place where history and nature exist in seamless harmony.
Meadow Meandering Haiku
Pause mid snow and sun,
shadows stretch through silent trees,
barns and house beckon.
What do you think?