A three part collaborative series of timelapse photography captured by Kate Montgomery, in celebration of Earth Day 2020. In times of social distancing, we are getting creative and working together from across the country. All three videos are captured in Spruce Cove, on the coast of Maine, and myself, in the room where I grew up in Longmont, Colorado.
Here is Part Three, Sunrise.
Photography by Kate Montgomery
Original music written and performed by Kendall Perry.
Featuring Beatriz Rola on Violin.
"Sleeping in the Forest"
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
By Mary Oliver