Magical Beings

December 15, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There is nothing more magical than a baby, who is able to capture the wonder of all. Magical is the prompt for Lens-Artists photo challenge this week.

Don’t Get Too Close!

December 8, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cee’s Midweek Madness prompt is closeups or macro. That duck was really hoping I couldn’t see her.

Unique Architecture

December 4, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The old Opera House, made of stone, like so many of the buildings in our town, stands out on the skyline. These salt and pepper buildings (as I call them) are unique on the Mississauga skyline. For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: unique

Oh, November!

December 3, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Last on the card for November for Bushboy’s challenge.

Ending in R

December 1, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A backyard deer, birrs, and a sunflower for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: things ending in ‘r’.

Empty Spaces

November 27, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An abandoned house…absence of birds (and water) at a local lake…an empty walkway… Empty spaces hold so much potential… (For Lens-Artists Photography challenge: empty spaces)

Looking Up, Looking Down

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

Drawn by the artistry of the sky, I find I am perpetually looking up… A view, looking down from a hotel room: For Lens-Artists Photography Challenge: Looking up and looking down.

Which Way, Animals?

November 19, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“Uhm, what happened to the path?” asks the deer. “Best to stick to the fence line, I’ve discovered,” responds the cow. (For Cee’s Which Way Challenge: with animals) Another note: Speaking of directions, I’ve made a conscious decision to stay out of the divisive discourse – too mucky and not at all healing for the […]

Filling the Frame: Seasons

November 13, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: filling the frame

Asymmetry Unbalances Me

November 10, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It doesn’t actually unbalance me, but these photos having disturbing elements. Doesn’t that truck’s landing look a little precarious? And what to make of the flurry of gulls? My lens had no idea where to focus. (For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: asymmetry)

Now That I Matter

The times I waited –restless and ragingdeliberately put on holddismissed, degraded, ignored. Why did I put up with that?Was I so afraid I’d lose it all?So uncertain about a future? How the children came to meneed in their eyes, little armsbegging to be embraced,and I too blinded to reach outfixated on the anger, powerless,immersed myself […]

Flowers and Rain (haiku)

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)