Lights in the Woods

2003, 18" x 20"
Ryoshu Collection

For half of the year, thick foliage hides the houses in the Virginia woods. It gives such a pleasure, therefore, to see the lighted windows among the leafless boughs, although of course it has been expected.   On one such evening, in the distance, I saw a single light slowly moving up… and up…

lights in the woods…

one inching upward

--the yellow moon