A Sunday idea: please support my work if you can.

Maria and I will head out shortly for the huge Mass MoCA Museum in North Madams, Mass., our favorite for now. We’ll be back this afternoon in time for my Color And Light flower photos. In the winter, we get restless to leave the farm and see something beautiful and creative. I love to photograph Maria there; she is small, and the space is enormous. It’s iconic and beautiful.

If you miss me today, you can do me a favor: please consider supporting the blog. It’s bill-paying time of the month for me, and I am reminded that the blog is expensive, and so are the flower photos that I believe are helping me and some other people get through the dark days.

Since I am no longer a big deal book writer, the blog depends on the support of the good people reading it. I appreciate it. The blog is my landing, home, and safe and creative space. I work hard at it every day.

The photography is expensive, as is the blog itself, not to mention feed, wood, and hay. I’m asking to be paid for my work, especially if it is meaningful, amusing, thoughtful, or uplifting. Contributions are voluntary; there are different ways to contribute. The blog is free and will remain free. But to maintain it, I need your help. It is the center of things, it makes a lot of good things possible.

You can donate via Paypal, one time or weekly, [email protected]. You can also contribute via Venmo, Jon Katz@Jon-Katz-13. You can also contribute by check, Jon Katz, Blog Fund, P.O. Box 205, State Route 22, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. Small donations are as welcome as bigger ones. Bigger ones are welcome, too…:)

I will start paying monthly bills tomorrow. See you later. P.S. Played chess to a draw last night. We are evenly matched.

Below zero, warm weather approaching.

Drawing water, working on the hay twine  sculpture.

 

Fate at rest. Peace.

First thing I see in the morning is sunlight through the window.

 

Standoff. Fate game glowering and snarling towards Zip, who was on the table. Zip leaned over and swiped at Fate’s nose, and Fate took off and ran to hide behind Maria. Zip can take care of himself.