Things are looking up

“Never leave your place of meditation”

Pretty Channel

Sunset at Old Baldy

I have never seen a sunset that looked more like an oil painting. The layers of colour, the textures, the play of dark and light… whose masterly hand…

The Ugly Duckling

Passage

“I think we’ve all come out of the same light, and we’re all going back into the same light.” – Aldous Huxley

Enchantment under the sea

Frosty sunrise

Soar

Fire and ice redux

The fiery red sunlight and cool blue of the lake made for a stunning contrast.

The Arctic at our doorstep

See also: https://youtu.be/uVkfCL7quHM

Tessellations

Not your typical day on the Toronto waterfront. Winter strips away all the excess and allows the geometry of nature to shine through.

The path to sunyata

McCrae Lake

The sentinels

The snow weighed down the branches of the pines to turn them into sentinels, standing stiffly at attention, guarding the sacred stillness of the morning. One of them…

Wild blue yonder

In the blue hour before sunrise, as dawn breaks on the first heavy snow of the season

The cold beauty of a clear winter’s night

Featuring the fainter Fall/Winter section of the Milky Way, and some subtle airglow

The gossamer thread

The island hangs on a delicate thread of light suspended in eternity – a metaphor for life? (with a nod to Nabokov)

Stirring sparkles

Nellie Lake, Killarney

If a thin place, as they say, is a place where heaven and earth come closer together, then this must be the very thinnest of places indeed. The…

The day of the flood

A brief clearing between two storm cells on a day of record-breaking rain. I like to imagine the CN Tower in this picture as one of Miyazaki’s floating…

Cormorant and seagull colony in Tommy Thompson Park

“You’re in the wrong neighbourhood, buddy”

Back in the U.S.S.R.?

In Sebastopol…. Sebastopol, Ontario. It’s a most singular place.