For the Love of Layers

a conversation with Air - Water - Earth - Fire

Salt on Road, 2025 Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

Dear Good Reader,

Layers. I see them everywhere.

Salt covers pavement.

Blue water, translucent, rises as blue-green water rushes through ice.

Blue Wave, Green River January 2026 Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

Hot or cold, she is alive,

still and in motion, she is layered.

Blues & Greens, Diptych 2026 Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

From sea to shining sea,

the air we breathe is the same,

Somewhere Over the US, December 2025 Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

and the water that nourishes us, the same.

Triangulation, 2026 Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

Along the way, the angles, complex and nuanced,

Triangulated Coasts, Oahu & Kauai 2026 Photographs By Lyn Swett Miller

earth - sea - sky in conversation, making sense of each other.

Cloud Lines of The US, December 2025 Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

We bear witness because these layers are not “other”…They are us…

Roadside (The Big Island) & Beachside (Kauai) 2026 Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

multi-textured and colored, seeking coherence in the midst of difference.

She’s Alive, B&W (Kilauea, Big Island) Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

Earth - Sea - Sky…and Fire. She is alive. We are alive.

Layers, Kauai & In the Clouds 2026 Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

Called to pay attention and wonder and be still in the midst of all that moves.

I ground myself with shades of gray when colors are intense.

It’s not delusion, just a choice.

Earth, Air, Water, Light - - A continuum Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

The elements converge. Your exhale is my inhale.

She is Alive, Triptych Photographs by Lyn Swett Miller

Lilly looks me in the eye — a challenge from one who loves.

It’s cold. There’s an edge. But let’s play.

Lilly’s Challenge Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

With gratitude for you being you,

Lyn

Compost 260130 Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

Compost, 260202 Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

What is it about orange this week? Must be the season for citrus and root vegetables! Aren’t the colors of us beautiful?

Compost 260204 Photograph by Lyn Swett Miller

PS: Speaking of color and layers — of compost, earth and self — I’m so grateful for the mixing and mingling of ideas that I experience every day. Whether during weekly gatherings with the Kinship Photography Collective (Wednesday evenings, 7 - 8:30 pm EST) or when in collaboration with a team of women helping me redesign my web-page (thank you Hydrate Marketing…who knew I’d be a brand?), I am inspired and motivated to keep evolving, just as the earth has done for millennia. Such a gift.

Thank you all for being part of the process.

If 13 Tons of Love means something to you, please share with others as we slowly grow our collective, multi-layered compost pile.