Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Starry, Starry Night”

This past Wednes­day and Thurs­day, Nation­al Geo­graph­ic pho­tog­ra­phers vis­it­ed the D.H. Lawrence Ranch. Unlike most folks, who go to the Ranch dur­ing the day­light hours, these pho­tog­ra­phers trekked up to the Home­stead­er Cab­in after night­fall, when noc­tur­nal ani­mals emerge under the cov­er of darkness.

The owls and coy­otes must have been watch­ing as the pho­tog­ra­phers set up their tripods around the Lawrence Tree and aimed their cam­eras sky­ward, through tan­gled tree limbs and toward the stars. Eighty-five years after Geor­gia O’Keeffe lay back on a carpenter’s bench and got lost in the stars, Nation­al Geo­graph­ic pho­tog­ra­phers made the jour­ney to see what she saw and record it for the rest of us.