Friday, January 31, 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

down by the river

the entanglement of winter grasses and dogwood is like food for the soul at this time of year . . .


Wednesday, January 29, 2014

purple hyacinth

the gift of a purple hyacinth in the cold bleak mid-winter continues even as it loses its bloom . . .


Tuesday, January 28, 2014

a moment

walking alongside the river . . .


Monday, January 27, 2014

metal roses

metal roses, handmade by my buddy james pronk - a master of metallurgical magic . . .







Sunday, January 26, 2014

frostbow

Frost´bow`
n. 1. A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.


Saturday, January 25, 2014

rainbow plume

the beautiful rainbow plume . . .




Friday, January 24, 2014

mid winter by the river

walking alongside the river in the early morning on my way to school . . .   the river steaming into the thirty five below zero winter air . . . the sun, full and bright but not warm . . . definitely not warm!



Thursday, January 23, 2014

the beauty of a glassed in porch

early morning frosty windows on her porch . . .



Wednesday, January 22, 2014

snowshoes!

i bought myself some new snowshoes so we can go off the trails and into the woods
 to see what we can see and take photographs!!!!


Tuesday, January 21, 2014

deliquescent


a heart becoming a butterfly . . . 
caught in mid melt . . . 
deliquescent . . . 

“every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” walt whitman

Monday, January 20, 2014

a mid-winter setting sun

walking home through the light of a mid-winter setting sun . . . 

my street . . . 



Sunday, January 19, 2014

Saturday, January 18, 2014

the light pours through . . .

a small river of light and colour temporarily frozen in time and space . . . . 




Friday, January 17, 2014

upriver in the january melt . . .

looking upriver through the successive stages of melt as evidenced in the retreating ice pack . . .


Thursday, January 16, 2014

cheese making

i got to attend a workshop on simple cheesemaking recently that excited me tremendously . . .


tom spills the secrets!



tom. half peterborough boy.  half north carolina boy.


the dangling and slowly draining cheesecloth bag of to be becoming cheese . . .


Wednesday, January 15, 2014

oak leaf . . .

little autumn treasures keep arriving at the front of my home . . .



Tuesday, January 14, 2014

the view acros the river

there's something about black and white photography that separates it so thoroughly from colour . . .

here are some wartime houses on the southern edge of east city in peterborough.



Monday, January 13, 2014

Sunday, January 12, 2014

the blogger



a self-portrait of the fifty six year old gently maturing man. inside a life filled with astonishing fortune. kindness and grace literally walks into his life. 
he gets to be a teacher - this alone would blow the minds of all who knew him until he was thirty three (and some since!) 
a life coloured with the love of many and the remarkable presence of so many more . . . 
and perhaps most incredibly - the purpose of almost everything before is revealed in an instant and then everything in his life begins again from there . . .

Saturday, January 11, 2014

caprice

this leaf lay in the snow on its own . . . there were no others like it anywhere nearby . . . it reminded me of how we travel through this place . . . how do we get to where we are . . . carried on the winds of caprice and fortune . . .  each entirely unique and astonishing . . .



Friday, January 10, 2014

open water . . .

when the river melts . . .



Thursday, January 9, 2014

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

i can't stop my eyes . . .

i can't stop my eyes desperately seeking out colour in the greyscale that is a peterborough winter . . . .



Tuesday, January 7, 2014

busy

even deep into winter's stillness, 
there's a "busyness"that accompanies the visual presence of winter . .