Eyeing the Sea

Photography of Carol McCord

and Poetry of Jim McCord

May 1 through September 31, 2025

Opening May 1

at The Kelly Adirondack Center

897 St. David’s Lane, Niskayuna

5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Jim McCord will read his poetry and Carol’s accompanying photos will be shown beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Adirondack Room.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

“Carol and I began putting photos and poems together over 15 years ago. Since then, in addition to Time and Place West and East there have been three books drawn from our times in England, France, Greece, Spain and Portugal. Our effort has always been a cooperative give and take, adjust, and accommodate as we explore the variety of relationships between the two
mediums and try to deepen our thoughts and feelings about what we observe. We would like this exhibition and the book which its selections are taken from to be seen as welcome invitations for others to consider the complex inter – actions between our natural and our human-shaped worlds. At best they might help to live lives of fuller understanding as well as help us deal with life’s dark, often tragic, truths.” – Jim McCord

 

 

BLUE HERON

 

Some say the world will end

in silence pitch-black as night.

Some say in blasts of white.

I admit I’m drawn to light

and often wish to glide

unruffled as this heron

toward diamond-strewn waters

tinted celestial blue

with only a smudge of shadow.

 

But light can also blanch

what it touches, turn sparkling

waters into flecks of stubble,

dull luminous feathers, dissolve

delineation. Under this warping

light waters appear nothing

like the backdrop of black

at the Great Blue’s back

studded with galaxies.