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Fire and ice redux

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

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, I awaken from my roadside nap to gaze upon the infinite…

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)

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.

Mooooon Riiiverrrrr

It’s not quite a mile wide but you won’t be crossing it in any kind of style

Tew’s Falls and Webster’s Falls

with hints of green just starting to come in during early spring

The lookout

Toronto, Antarctica

Zurich

Bernina Railway

Geminid meteor shower, December 2023

I took this picture at my favorite observing spot in Muskoka, 2 hours north of Toronto – not quite enough to escape the light pollution of the big…

A fire in the sky

Hypnosis

Parry Sound trestle