Finally

This year has seen an aberration in the normal process of the Seasons.

November and December warmer than past years.

Open water on our lake until January 6.

Mallard Ducks walking up the shore and visiting the ground under the bird feeder in early January to feast on the dropped sunflower seeds.

The lake has been ready to freeze for the past three weeks.

It made an attempt in mid-December but that ice cover disappeared with a couple of days of warm winds from the South.

A full moon, calm air and a -12C night was enough to make ice.

Yesterday morning the lake woke up with its winter blanket of ice.

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Early Season

When Lake Nipissing freezes over, the next season begins.

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Happy New Year

This guy/girl visited on New Year’s Day to help clean up under the feeder after the wild party.

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Visitor

On Christmas Night, a flying squirrel flew onto the bird feeder.

It munched away for a while, enjoying its Christmas Dinner.

Seemed appropriate, I think.

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Snow Photographs

The first snows of the Winter are quite exciting, especially when the snow sticks and stays on everything for days.

Opportunity to show the delicacy of Nature abound.

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Merry Christmas

A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to All!

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Three Paths in Laurier Woods

In the Woods the trails wander

Among the trees and ponds, and so,

When trekking and the day is fair

The hard part is to know just where

To pause and sense the mood

That best expresses how one feels.

Around the bend one might fetch up

A memory,

A feeling.

Sad, happy, excited, nostalgic,

Put there in the mind

By past experience enjoyed,

Or missed, only to surface and make itself known.

Finally.

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It’s Happening

Making progress on Winter.

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Joy

Some birds of Summer and Winter.

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Evening

In the Summer, just after the sun goes down, the end of the day can be quite tranquil.

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And Still More Art

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More Art

Here are two more images that began as photographs.

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Art

In the minds of many people an image is not “Art” unless produced by some hand process like painting, drawing, etc.

I have had many photographs receive the compliment, “Gee, it looks like a painting!”, as if somehow painted images (no matter how poorly done) are the gold standard by which images are judged.

“Looks just like a painting” is not a compliment to me.

Lately I have discovered some Photoshop processing the does a terrific job of changing a photograph into a watercolor style image. The processing is flexible enough that feeling and mood can be modified to express what I want to say.

Here are some images that started as photographs.

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November Sky

Lake Nipissing

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Lake Nipissing November Sky

Lately the weather has been warm and the air calm.

Afternoons have been long and languid.

Sometimes the skies over Lake Nipissing have been dramatic.

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