Raise Your Spirits
I used to put some of my pictures into a local Facebook group to share the beauty that can still be found amidst our urban sprawl, but then one of the admins decided to impose a whole lot of arbitrary rules so I stopped. Don't you find that there's always one person in a group… Continue reading There’s always one
It doesn't seem any time since we were watching the leaves change in Fall and now we're coming out of Winter and seeing the approach of Spring. It's not been a bad winter this year but it's good to see signs of life returning to the creek trail. The Cardinals and Chickadees don't go anywhere… Continue reading Spring Forward
Just realised that after a productive Fall and early Winter I've not shared many noteworthy pictures recently. So here are three that I like from my morning walks. There are many sitting on my memory cards that will never see the light of day, but these are OK.
These days we've been walking the creek and around the local lake every day and been rewarded with almost daily views of the heron I posted last week. I don't take pictures of him every time, I don't want him to get nervous and move away from his spot, but now and again I can't… Continue reading There’s still life in the old creek yet
This was taken at the same spot - give or take a couple of yards - that the previous shot was taken. We're used to seeing Great Blue Herons being a little more, well, blue, but in the winter their plumage becomes more dowdy. It's still a magnificent bird whatever the season.
When you walk the same paths over and over, you can become complacent about the scenery around you. Sometimes it takes a dramatic change, like our recent snowfall, to show you how nature's turns can make the familiar new again.
The 16th and 17th centuries are often regarded as the highpoint for the classic still life painting, also collectively identified as the Vanitas movement. Here's my own little homage to Vanitas, 2020-style.
