Seasonal Defiance

January 22, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

Cast my shadow over white banks/ assert presence: proud, defiant Will find beauty in deserted places / and colour in the monochrome Haunted by a winter state of mind / resolved to stretch despite chill. For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: illustrate a favourite quote or poem. Of course, I chose a poem of my own: Seasonal Defiance, originally published […]

Dramatic

January 14, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Outside of the city limits, where trees claim honour as the tallest structures, the sky is always dramatic. No matter my mood, the dramatic contrast of a red cardinal against a tangle of branches always makes me catch my breath. So beautiful. The eldest granddaughter, intent on photo bombing my family shots, helped create this dramatic […]

Red House on the River

January 5, 2024.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I have many photographs of this red house, interested as I am in the river itself, but also the architectural aspects of old homes such as this. Who lives there, I wonder? What an incredible view they have. Ric and I have often dreamed of living at the water’s edge – an ocean, or great lake – […]

Well, there’s brown in the sign…

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

…and then dirt… For Cee’s Which Way challenge: with the colour black or brown

White (CFFC)

December 22, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: white

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.

Mother

When I had a mothermy hair would cascadein curls of auburn perfectiona red velvet bow to accentuate the wave And I’d wear my bestnewly sewn frockwith lace at the neckand fishnet stockingsand patent Mary Janes And the girls giggling with delightwould skip hand-in-handto the school promand the boys shyly perchedagainst the back wall would wonderhow […]

Lull (tanka)

Self-Sufficient

Isolated and incapacitatedI am prohibited from partakingof the influx of information incessantly presented consequently cut offfrom prescribed expectationsdictating costuming and culture external expressions of acceptanceare sorely missing, suggestingan overall lack of self-worth. Interestingly inverse to such conclusionsis the sudden contentment that arisesfrom escaping the mayhem Internal relief overrides dictated performancesurrendering willingly to intrinsic motivationand renewed […]