The period of time in Spring between the disappearance of the snow and the arrival of the warmth.
Waiting for the explosion of growth that comes inevitably each year.
Memory Unearthed
Memory Unearthed is an exhibition of the photographs of Henryk Ross, a photographer in the Lodz ghetto in the years 1940 – 1945.
The Art Gallery of Ontario currently has the photographs on display and it is an enlightening and disturbing exhibition. It contains some of the bravest, scariest and most real photographs to be seen anywhere. It captures the desperation and depression of that hopeless time for the people who were imprisoned there for those years of WW II.
“From 1940 to 1944, Ross took work-permit identification card photos for the ghetto’s ever increasing Jewish population consolidated into Lodz ghetto by the Nazi regime. He also took “official” images, promoting the ghetto’s work efficiency, and at the same time he documented the grim daily life in the ghetto: suffering and despair, starvation and diseases, the exploitation of the workers, the deportation of thousands to death camps at Chelmno and Auschwitz.” (AGO web page)
I was able to visit recently and came away with a renewed appreciation of the horror that was Nazi-controlled ghetto life in Poland.
These photographs are a small fraction of the story presented by the AGO.
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Standout Building
The Student Learning Centre Building of Ryerson University on Yonge Street, Toronto.
I was dazzled by it.
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Architectural Abstract
Above the entrance to the Student Learning Centre at Ryerson University.
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Spring Run – Off
Duchesnay Creek runs high in the spring as the snow is melting upstream.
The Falls are powerful at this time of year.
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Apples & Twigs
The apples that didn’t drop last Fall are still on the tree.
A little the worse for wear.
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Oak Leaf
The snow banks by the road slowly reveal items of nature that have been hidden for the past few months.
This oak leaf sinks daily into its little bed of snow until it will eventually reach the ground.
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Next Year
End of Season. The snow is leaving.
The trail is deteriorating.
Temagami will have to wait for next year.
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Looking West Monochrome
A black and white version of yesterday’s post.
The canoe routes to the West of Canada entered Lake Nipissing a little to the South of this location and disappeared into the mouth of the French River on the horizon to the left. Canoes passed this way Spring and Fall for over 100 years.
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