Waltham Massachusetts (in the Spring Light: Mill Town series)

Home of the Francis Cabot Lowell Mill, the first corporation in the world (all stages of a manufacturing process under one roof—cotton fabric) and Raytheon ("Light of the Gods"), one of the top military contractors in the world

Spring Light-1

Does spring light puncture the fog and drizzle of our late April day in Lowell?

What remains of the light after it has soared from the sun 93,000,000 miles and 8 minutes away?

Spring light shimmers with golden potential on the myriad tiny drops of mist.

Spring light settles lazily on grass and flowers and trees.

Spring light softly glosses our faces without drenching them.

Spring light reminds us this is not a winter day; over the next several months we will no longer shiver.

Spring light projects us into the warmth of summer.

Green is the dominant color.

Altho fields of our hearts that with the dead have been, like the green blade rising, love is come again.

—Skip Schiel

General info about Waltham

Waltham Watch Factory :: March 2009

photos by skip schiel & teeksa photography

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