Sleepless In New Hampshire

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.  ~Vincent Van Gogh

On a recent visit to the farm, Susan Hunter didn't let nightfall keep her from enjoying the meadows and the gardens as she used her trusty Nikon to capture these wonderful time-exposure images.

   

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature.  What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

One moon lights a thousand forevers... ~Meng Chiao

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
 Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. 
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.  ~Lemony Snicket

All photos copyright Susan Hunter