Last week I walked into Carman Lake to spend time exploring the creek that empties the lake eventually into Meech Creek. There is a higher flow in the creek now that the beaver dam is no longer there so I anticipated some attractions. There was a slight snow cover remaining after the first real snowfall […]
Walking with my camera early Sunday morning on new fallen snow is one of the moments in life I cherish, so there was no question when I woke to snow on the ground of what I would do in the early morning before going to church. Overnight the landscape was transformed from last week’s November […]
Saying that November has ‘colours’ seems an oxymoron. But today as I was doing a hill workout climbing the lower part of Ridge Road from Old Chelsea to the Penguin Picnic Field (to prepare for the ski season!) I felt surrounded by colour. It was a wet morning with a light rain so whatever […]
This was the title of a posting I received this morning from the author Parker J. Palmer before going out for a hike. It is the last line of a poem written by Wendell Berry and I had no idea it would be so relevant or prescient. The day before we had had a record […]
Another morning leaving home in the dark, this time to search out vantage points to capture the magnificence of the Eardley Escarpment. It became painfully apparent to me why I’ve been disappointed of late with the impact of my photos and why they fall short of powerfully capturing the mood of a scene: I was […]
My photographer friend Harry Nowell always says the secret to good photos is – being there. Being there when the light is right, when the sun rises, or when mist rises over the water. While I do make efforts to ‘be there’ early in the day, I’m not great at it so I appreciated the […]
A gift of time this morning allowed me to hike into Carman Lake via old Cafferty Road. I love that old road and still feel disappointed that the NCC stopped maintaining it. In fact, no longer is there even an old road sign indicating its history! And what a gift this morning was – fog […]
This has been an unsettling and disturbing week and as so often is the case for me I go to nature to regain my footing and hope in humanity. This photo is of the dawn as it appeared over Pink Lake in the Gatineau Park early Monday morning. A reminder to me that yes, there […]
I haven’t been out hiking lately so I’m posting a couple more photos from last week’s early morning outing in Meech Creek Valley. What I love about these photos is the warm, yellow early morning sun creeping up over my right shoulder as I’m taking the photos, warming up the colours of the grasses and […]
I went to Meech Creek Valley in the wee hours of the morning this week because I knew that the beautiful weather we’d been having during the daytime along with the cold nights would result in early morning fog and I didn’t want to miss it. What is there about a foggy scene that pulls us […]
