Clouds With Attitude

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

Weekend Sky

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.

Rural Life

December 23, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Rural Southwestern Ontario, Canada. For Cee’s Midweek Madness challenge: pick a topic from her photo.

Mourning Skies?

November 21, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky.

October Skies

October 17, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Hammad Rais’s Weekend Skies

Maple Leaf

November 8, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Tracing the lines of your perfection,I remember, childhood discoveries –wax paper and hot iron,the smell of fresh raked pranks,and what it means to be Canadian. I no longer make leaf art,nor partake of Autumn cleanup,but I have not forgottenthe power of your symbolismand how far we have yet to go. (For Cee’s Flower of the […]

Autumn Blessings

October 31, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Pre-camera years, I bemoaned the arrival of Autumn as Winter’s harbinger. The lens, however, has the magical ability to transform one’s perceptions. Suddenly, I have new appreciation for golden forests, and white flowers lingering against a backdrop of fallen leaves: Even the robin, typically associated with the onset of Spring, exudes new charm amid the […]

Driving My Perspective

October 17, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

“Grab your camera; let’s go for a drive!” Ric knows how to pull me out of my doldrums. Despite the cold wind, the day is not without merit. We drive to another small town, just thirty minutes away. Here, wetlands and a wooded trail attract a multitude of birds. I snap a few pics of […]

Changing Seasons

October 1, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Summer greens dig in, regale the warmth of dayswhile Autumn creeps, spreading reds and golds. For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge: changing seasons. .

Orange

December 15, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Orange is the colour, I’d like to be –fiery as sunsets, bright as an oak leaf,brilliant even in the waning hours. (For Cee’s FOTD)

Not Dead Yet

There is safety in apart-ment living;would corral the little ones, declareresponsibility, obligations as a maskfor this self-banishing compulsion… except that I am lying prone, exposed –brains spilling onto concrete – shadowsrevealing the darkness of my condition,hopelessly locked in physical inertia. I am an unwitting contributor toscientific (and pseudo) probing:audacious autopsies pronouncingconclusive evidence of motives. Too […]

That Kid

Not programmed to comply –cannot tolerate oppression:a pressure cookerready to explode Do-gooders sit upstraight and smileencouragement:I slouch defiance Don’t ask me to respectthat which is disrespectful –my fuse is shortof that I’m certain Don’t slot me;leave me –creative inspirationis not lacking here I’m a free agenta incorrigible scamp –authority doesn’t scare me’cause I’m beyond control. […]

Undefendable

Every child bears the sparkof eternity’s promise…Where’s the threat in that? What mechanism of hateequates slaughterof innocents with justice? This is society’s bane –the unconscionable policiesof greed lacking accountability (Tuesdays I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. Image my own)