Candid

October 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I vowed I wouldn’t show photos of people on screens for this challenge, but then I couldn’t resist the serious look of these two cousins ” Just watching something, Grandma.” A family walk is much more satisfying – at least from my perspective. Then I caught this fellow and I couldn’t help but sneak a […]

I Spy…

December 16, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…canoeists on the Avon river, Stratford, Ontario. …a family fishing outing, Muskoka, Ontario. My favourite birder in Bird Blind #1. (Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is: Catching people unaware.)

The Moment is Now

Evening light casts a hopeful glowA gentle summer breeze harmonizesshadows fascinate, stretching into mystery My breathing, shallow, betrays the moodUncertainty an unforgiving foe –soul whispers a prayer of longing A swarm of winged insects dance where walnut branches part undaunted by ensuing dark My wings, folded in doubt’s wake,weigh heavily on anticipation –a learned habit of […]

Magic (haiku)

Perfection: a note to self

Back to back showings and an Open House Saturday, and I’m falling into the perfectionism trap. Then I found this note I’d written to my younger self: Discard the concept of perfection: choose to embrace vulnerability and imperfection as fertile ground. Taking comfort in my own words.