I love lupines and Sweetman’s Garden is coming into bloom.
Here are four shots from yesterday’s adventure:
Let Summer begin!
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Promise of Summer
Even though the ice is still on Lake Nipissing, it’s easy to imagine paddling your feet in the sand in the warm waters of summer.
I can imagine the little kids splashing in the water.
When summer comes, this is very, very good!
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Summers Past
Let your mind play with the memories.
Or invent a fishing story.
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GAS
Spring is on the cusp of arrival.
The snow is tired and it is time for it to go.
Summer will come again.
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Flower Day
In the summer I make a lot of photographs of flowers, many of which I don’t use. Until I get to messing around with new ideas and processing foolishness.
A recent post by my friend Silverpixel introduced me to the Autochrome process and I’ve spent most of the past two days playing with tutorials from the web which try to duplicate the delicate tones and feel of the original photographs. It is remarkable that this was the go-to process for colour photos from the turn of the last century until Kodak brought out Kodachrome around 1930.
Here’s an attempt using a shot of hollyhocks from Sweetman’s Garden made a year ago last summer.
I hope the treatment has a romantic and nostalgic feeling to it.
Anyway, it’s been a fun two days!
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Cold Morning Relief
It is -25C outside.
To ease the pain, a little thought from Summer:
Be warm for a moment!
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Rural Landscape
I visited the Kindardine area this past summer and made several photographs.
The land near Lake Huron south of the town is very flat and has been farmed for generations. It yields views which are reduced to few elements and go for a long way, almost to infinity.
Over the years we have become inured to what ought to be in a rural landscape photograph or painting and this one fits the “rules” and we feel comfortable with it.
This is what it really looks like:
There is a great deal of discussion in the area about the visual impact on the landscape of the giant wind turbines that have been built over the past five or so years. “Stop the Wind Farm” signs are a regular sight on mailboxes and fenceposts.
In the past and currently, the presence of hydro (telephone) poles in this photograph would be quite acceptable. I suppose that is because we have become used to seeing them in photographs and in our everyday viewing of the landscape. The addition of windmills to such a scene these days is visually disturbing to some (many) who, one supposes, were comfortable with the traditional view from this spot and see them as visual blight.
Of course a painter can just leave them out and we would be none the wiser.
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Logo
I don’t know if it’s an original design by the owner, but the logo for Sunbeam Bungalows is very effective.
The message, “sun, sand, relaxation,shelter,tradition, vacation, fun, summer”, is there.
An unpretentious place to stay.
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Sunbeam Bungalows
On the sandy shore of Callander Bay is the Sunbeam Bungalows marina. The bungalows are across the road from here in a grove of red pine trees.
The unique logo attracted my attention.
It’s always a sunny day when you vacation here.
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If I Were a Rabbit
The kids who gardened in Sweetman’s Garden this summer have a sense of humour…
…and artistic ability as well!
Were I a rabbit, I’d certainly take advantage!
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Afternoon on Lake Nosbonsing
We have been living at the cottage since the beginning of July and have no ability to process or post photographs. Dial-up prevents this and is very frustrating besides. So much for “The Good ‘ol Days”!
Here are three that I made yesterday while kayaking around the shores of the lake…
Cloud over Lake Nosbonsing:
Brave Loon:
Water plants:
An amazing way to spend an afternoon.
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Summer Morning
One Mile Bay is smooth this morning.
Summer’s here.
This week at least!
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Take Heart!
Despite today’s rotten weather, this is coming…
I guess we can all relax now!
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Return to Summer
Now that the leaves are gone, having been blown off in the latest windstorm, I felt that I should take another look at summer before we forget what it was like.
Just cries for a red canoe, doesn’t it?
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