Within the past two weeks we received a 51 cm snowfall, followed within a couple of days by a thaw, a number of significant rainfalls, and a few arctic freezes thrown into the mix. We no longer know what to expect with our weather and what outdoor activity would be pleasurable, or even possible. Today, […]
I’ve experienced quite a hiatus in my photo taking. Since early January to be specific. Family responsibilities together with the weird weather this winter got in the way. But today, two days after a 51 cm snowfall, I was happy to be out doors with my camera in the warm February sun, even though the temperature […]
An Arctic front moved in overnight after I’d taken the photos in the previous posting, plummeting the temperature to -20C with a wind chill of -29C. Overnight, ice formed on the streams: angular, patterned, multi shaped crystals on the surfaces of the exposed creeks. The air was crisp, the ground squeaky, and the branches cracking […]
A fresh snowfall and mild temperatures earlier this week had me chose to wander in the woods near the Notch Road, rather than go to church. The branches were lightly laden with fresh snow and the creeks were still visible as it hadn’t yet been cold enough for freeze over. A world of contrasts […]
It finally happened – snow fell overnight at Lac Bernard and it was so beautiful to wake up December 27th at my son’s cottage and view the trees through the window all laden with snow. I can’t describe how I feel when I see this beauty. All the others in the cottage were sleeping […]
I find myself pondering how this time of Solstice, the time of the standing still of the sun in its northward journey, has meaning for me in my life and in my photo taking. This is the time of darkness on the cusp of our return into the light. This year I’ve felt the ‘darkness’ […]
As I mentioned last week, I’m enjoying experiencing the ‘bare bones’ of the November landscape. This week as I continued to explore this theme I loved how much more detail is possible to see in the creeks with all the shrubbery out of the way: their sinuous winding nature, the rocky banks, the exposed rocks […]
I find the absence of colours and foliage in the month of November a unique time in the annual cycle for taking photos. The terrain is simply present with no distraction (or focus) from spring foliage, summer blossoms or fall splendour. In November the terrain says ‘here I am, this is who I am’. No flourish. […]
For the past two weeks my weekly hikes with my friend Sheila explored the western part of the Park. Last week we followed Trail #56 from its start, at the Eardley-Masham Rd. near Ramsay Lake, to Taylor Lake. This week we checked out the lookout. The ecosystem has quite a different feel from that in […]
The weather this week has been spectacularly warm and sunny, especially considering it is the first week of November, so I felt it was glorious weather to explore the Luskville Falls, on the Eardley Escarpment. The last time I climbed the falls was in May, with the lush green growth of spring all around and […]
