Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.

Watching barn swallows wheel about above, I think of choreography and calendars. Here in California, spring is swallow time. For most of my neighbors, that’s an insignificant fact. For me (and for other naturalists), it’s an anticipated beat – the song goes on as we’ve come to know it. In his prison memoir “Wilderness and Razor Wire” (2013), Ken Lamberton writes, “I gauge my life by the swallows. Their nature, like many things in the world, is cyclic; they live inside the regular heartbeat of the land. Ebb and flow, flex and flux, rise and fall. It’s a pattern I can live with, one that gives me hope. As long as the swallows come in the spring and go in the fall, come and go and come, I’ll feel their rhythm, measuring it out as a change of seasons. This is the source of my hope: the swallows don’t only make me feel the weight of time, they cue me to the passage of time. Where ancient peoples raised stones to track equinoxes and solstices, the swallows are my Stonehenge. … I mark the swallows.”

Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).

Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.