Lines Lead

January 22, 2020January 18, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 9 Comments

Easily swayed, my imagination
follows lines, dreams of new horizons

spins and traces unknown spaces

speculates about what might have been…

(For Lens-Artists Challenge: Leading Lines)

Midwinter Tease

January 18, 2020January 18, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 16 Comments

Vibrant red,
sweet pinks

The joy of birdsong

Oh, how I long for Spring.

(For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Spring Scenes)

Could you just…

January 16, 2020January 15, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 6 Comments

…wait for Grandma? How about a cheese?

…get your finger out of the cake and say cheese?

(for Cee’s On The Hunt for Joy challenge: say cheese. Grateful, as always, for family.)

A Passenger's View

January 14, 2020January 13, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 15 Comments

I reconcile this passenger imposed life
through a photographer’s lens

Record the road ahead, the passages
find resonance in what lies outside my window.

(For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: A window with a view)

Scenes From Ontario Winter

January 9, 2020January 7, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 13 Comments

I cast my shadow over white banks
assert my presence, proud, defiant

Will find beauty in deserted golf courses
and colour in a monochrome season

I am haunted by a Winter state of mind
resolved to stretch myself despite creeping chill.

(Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is winter scenes. This Winter I am challenging myself to endure a season that typically I escape. I am determined to find the blessings. So far, so good.)

Summer Buzz

January 7, 2020January 6, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 20 Comments

Summer, I hold you in my heart
even as the trees stand bare
having shed their Autumn garbs

The glow of green still buzzes
carries me through the cold
a promise worth the wait.

(Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: opposite weather.)

Sculpting

January 2, 2020January 1, 2020 ~ V.J. Knutson ~ 15 Comments

The best openings are the one’s we carve for ourselves.

We spent New Year’s Eve reminiscing about eighteen years of togetherness. Stayed up past midnight, and talked about our future. Hope coloured our words.

Sculpting has been on my mind – not literally, but in the sense of chipping away at the outer facade to invite emergence.

Ric has shed fifty pounds of excess weight, and I am now joining him in that quest. We are entering this new decade with renewed vigour. There is much we still yearn to sample.

I’m lining up my tools, examining the material before me: changes lie ahead. Bit by bit, I will ply my craft, shed the excess, intuit the contours of this life I’m co-creating.

Emergence takes time, commitment, and a willingness to be open.

(Image taken from The Grand Trunk trestle. This town we have settled in stirs my impulse towards the creative. So grateful to be here. Hope it inspires you as much as it did me. I will be back Monday with a new weekly challenge.)