Live simply, but be complicated

 Living closer to nature helps simplify because nature itself, though complex, keeps us in tune with basic rhythms and pleasures that never change and that provide grounding

Thomas Moore

 Looking up

In camera

Beautiful time of the year

The noisy tourists have left

Peace and calm have come back to nature

 

  

Unrest

 

Mornings are getting cooler and cooler

One can feel it in the air

And in the dew

When walking through the witchy grass

A blast of contemplative photography

Downtown Guelph

Once in a while

When arriving at work

I get a glimpse of the beautiful morning light

And can't resist stopping time

To make an image out of it.

An old Roux bottle I saved from demolition

when our department moved into a new building

Cool nights already

Winter is soon back to us

The earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hate tourism! I like to live in a place. I don’t like to go for short time."

Henri Cartier-Bresson 

From an interview with Sheila Turner-Seed

A local

The Lady in Pink

There are moments which are worth a thousand years.

That early morning hike on the Bruce Peninsula,

with a long moment of pure undisturbed nature enjoyment on the shore of Georgian Bay

was one of those.

"As I sat there on the rock I realized that, in spite of the closeness of civilization and the change that hemmed it in, this remnant of the old wilderness would speak to me of silence and solitude, of belonging and wonder and beauty. Though the point was only a small part of the vastness reaching far to the arctic, from it I could survey the whole. While it would be mine for only a short time, this glaciated shore with its twisted trees and caribou moss would grow into my life and into the lives of all who shared it with me."

Sigurd Olson, Listening point

It is for the trilliums that we went

It is with an image of wild ginger that I came back

Never knows what one will find out when opening one's eyes and heart

So many of them

Each one of them worth a world in itself

And gone in an instant.

From very needed peaceful moments up North

Woven onto the ground

The remains of past seasons

"Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding"

From "Art and Fear", by David Bayles and Ted Orland

"I love to see anything that implies a simpler mode of life and a greater nearness to the earth"

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1839

Hanging loose in the woods

No nature hike this weekend. Warm wet weather, melting snow, and muddy trails were not too conducive to get out there.

A nice early Saturday morning walk through downtown with fellow photographers, Alan and Doug.