Stoic to the end

“Tree spirit” photographed in the forest by Sanford Ross Bender on August 27, 2025
“Stoic to the end” composed and performed with guitar and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on August 29, 2025.

The thank you tree

“Dawn redwood tree” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender inThailand in 2016.

“The thank you tree” composed and performed with guitar and tree creaking by Sanford Ross Bender on August 8, 2025.

Lantana bloom

“Lantana bloom” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender at the Churchville Nature Center Butterfly House in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on July 19, 2025.
“Lantana bloom” composed and performed with guitar and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on July 20, 2025.

Along the Corn Furrows

Along the Corn Furrows – photograph by Sanford Bender – February 6, 2021

I was in Tyler Park near my home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on a cold, wintry day. The sun was low in the sky and the bare trees and knobby remnants of corn stalks evoked the music I had recorded a few days earlier…