"Sunrise", Timelapse Collaboration Pt. Three

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

"Full Moon", Timelapse Collaboration Pt. Two

Part Two, Full Moon.

From the full moon on April 7th, 2020 in Spruce Cove, Maine.

Photography by Kate Montgomery
Original music written and performed by Kendall Perry.
Featuring Beatriz Rola on violin.

"In Blackwater Woods"

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.

By Mary Oliver