Standard time combined with November weather emphasizes dull gray uninspiring days.
Time for a reminder of Summer and long sunny days.
This is a view of the South River alongside Alsace Road west of Powassan.
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Brightening a Gray Morning
It’s a gray morning. Rain, fog and little light. This may brighten it up!
Perhaps it will hasten the arrival of the sunshine.
A hint to the gods?
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Whistler Winter
I enjoyed last week at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia skiing on some really great snow.
It was wonderful!
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Spring Activity
The very first warm sunny Sunday with its hint of spring brings activity back to the shores of our lake.
Fishing shacks are hauled off the ice before breakup.
The large flat area is perfect for flying model aircraft in calm wind.
Or sitting reading in the sun.
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Disability
For the past 20 years or so, I along with a large number of others, have contributed time and energy to enhance the lives of disabled children. We do this through the Nipissing Trackers, generously supported by NADY, our local Laurentian Ski Hill and many people who simply care. We use experience, ingenuity and some specialized equipment to give the kids the excitement and freedom of sliding on snow on a hill which to us is a bit of a pimple but to them is as big and daunting as Mount Everest. The excitement is palpable and contagious and kids return year after year to enjoy the fun. Smiles are the currency of payment.
This past Sunday our volunteer instructors began training for this year’s program which starts in a couple of weeks. We try to bring the fun and joy of skiing to people whose horizons can be expanded beyond the constraints that fate has dealt.
Here are a some photographs of the training we do with a device called a “Bi-Ski” which is used for those kids who spend much of their lives in a wheelchair. (One of our brave instructors is riding in the Bi-Ski as the “Guinea Pig”.)
For more speed and maneuverability the Bi-Ski can be “flown” on tethers. This takes a great deal of talent, judgement and skiing ability.
Occasionally there is a minor disaster. (No damage done here.)
Success is getting to the bottom of the hill without mishap.
And the reward is a great big smile!
Another week of training and then, “Let the Season Begin!”
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Afternoon Shadows
Shadows in late afternoon on a perfect Northern Ontario cold day.
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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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Morning onTrout Lake
Flat calm, warm, unusual Thanksgiving Weekend weather. Fall is here in spades!
Most cottage owners have gone back to the city. They will feel badly that they are missing this.
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More Sunshine
It’s not as big as a sunflower but it is a relative and a bunch of them are just as sunny.
Getting ready for the long dark days of November.
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