Water’s Attraction

September 3, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Whether the river, the falls, or the backyard pool, water is always fascinating. (For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: water)

Props?

August 25, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s a Photo a Week Challenge: props

A Photo a Week: Natural Lighting

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

(Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: natural lighting.)

Horizontal

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

(Posted for Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week: horizontal lines)

Shops and Reflections

July 30, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: reflections)

A Side View

July 19, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week challenge: From the side)

Big Digger

July 14, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: really big toys)

Unexpected

May 20, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

On a recent birding cruise, I came upon two unexpected sights. First the appearance of long tendrils of smoke emitting from the treetops and down the centre of the road. Not smoke, it turned out but bugs. Swarms of bugs. Then I noticed a number of ripples in the watery ditch at the side of […]

Mom at 16 and 94

May 5, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: mothers.

With An Extra Glow

April 14, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Red-bellied Woodpecker (featured) and Osprey for A Photo a Week Challenge: backlit.

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)