Orchids

October 22, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our home, with all its windows and light, seems to be a good host for orchids. Here are a few of our plants.

Sunflowers

August 24, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lesia, our Ukrainian roommate, planted five sunflowers in the garden below my bedroom window. They are now 8 feet tall and still growing! Our Ukrainian friends visit and marvel at these giant replicas of their national flower. The symbolism does not escape me.

Floral Interlude

August 10, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our Ukrainian roommate loves to garden. Just three pops of colour she has planted to brighten her vegetable beds.

Still Life

April 24, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lens-Artists challenge this week is Still Life. Not something I photograph often, but I did manage to find a few.

Spring Gifted

March 17, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

On International Woman’s Day, I was gifted with many flowers, chocolates, and other displays of affection from our budding Ukrainian community. How lucky am I? Rain has arrived today. It doesn’t appear to be making a dent in the snow yet, but Spring has to win eventually…right? The flowers sure have inspired hope. Hope they […]

Stopping to smell the flowers

June 15, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I rushed to the grocery store for a few things before the kids got home, skipping aisles to avoid wasted time. Loaded the bags in the car and hopped in the driver’s seat before I noticed them: flower pots everywhere. If I don’t have time to photograph the flowers, I decided. then something is wrong […]

Drawing Sunflowers

March 18, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I find my ability to concentrate is lessened by the heartache of what’s going on in the world, and even here at home. I need a focus to calm and carry me through, so I’ve decided to learn to draw sunflowers. Sunflowers, whose symbolism is now so vividly connected with hope and resilience. Here’s where […]

Colours of Autumn

September 27, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

My right eye seems to be having detachment issues, so while I await a visit with the eye doc, I have not been able to get out with the camera. I did manage to capture some Fall images at a local garden centre, so here’s my submission for Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge: colours of Autumn.

Garden Season

May 11, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Not a gardener myself, I live vicariously through the efforts of others. For Lens-artists Photo Challenge: gardens.

Beautiful Details

May 4, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Kind well wishers sent us three bouquets during Ric’s recovery. These images examine the details. For Lens-artists Photo Challenge: focusing on the details.

An Escape Plan

An incorrigible hagengages my loneliness –like an assassin sniffing outany scent of vulnerability I am lowering standardsthis history of imprisonmentenabling inappropriate openings I cry for new perspectiveponder after boundariesintending to defend Like an unwanted bullseyeI am pursued on repeatmalice considering mea problem to be solved Who is this old womanwhose thoughts are daggerswho calls upon […]

Making of a Woman

I know that abyss –swallowed up as I waspunch-drunk on darkness Bled as I emerged,each reach a scrape –there was release too Revived now, I honourthat passage, recognizethe making of a woman. (Making of a Woman first appeared here, December 2021. Image: self portrait in ink)