playing with light

a kaleidoscope effect

an old light shade with an incandescent bulb

and what it might look like with a compact fluorescent bulb

which glow do you prefer?

Mellow Yellow Monday

reverie

In his dim chapel day by day
The organist was wont to play,
And please himself with fluted reveries;
And all the spirit's joy and strife,
The longing of a tender life,
Took sound and form upon the ivory keys;
And though he seldom spoke a word,
The simple hearts that loved him heard
His glowing soul in these.

~Archibald Lampman

ShadowShotSunday

influences

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air,

drink the drink, taste the fruit 

and resign yourself to the influence of each

~ David Thoreau

SkyWatchFriday

to all buses

These pigeons seem happy to welcome you to this GO Station in downtown Hamilton. The TH&B Ry Co stands for Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway Company (which merged with Canadian Pacific in the late 1980s). It is the only art deco railway station known in Canada. Today it doubles as a GO train and bus station which also includes other regional buses (Greyhound  and Canada Coach) as well as the local HSR buses.

signs, signs

N is for numbers

ABC Wednesday

Hamilton is Football

The Canadian Football Hall of Fame in Hamilton


A Hamilton Ti-Cats fan





















Our World Tuesday
signs, signs

early fall

 up the Niagara Escarpment in Dundas

taken before the leaves were blown off in the wind.

SundayBridges

heron

patience...

camera-critters

Fairy Lake

Southampton in August. 

It is hard to tell, but there is a white swan to the left 

and a white heron to the right of the fountain.

the view from the other side of this tiny lake with

the Southampton water tower and the blue bandshell where 

Friday night concerts are held all summer long.

Weekend Reflections

sunset

Lord, I have loved your sky,

be it said against or for me,

have loved it clear and high,

or low and stormy

~ Robert Frost

SkyWatchFriday

M is for muskie

 This Leaping Muskie statue celebrates the area on the St Lawrence River as a top muskellunge (muskie) area.

Muskies will eat anything that fits into their mouth - mostly other fish, but also frogs, ducklings, snakes, muskrats, mice and other small mammals and small birds.

They are known for their strength and their tendency to leap from the water in stunning acrobatic displays.

this awards log goes up to 2000, but the last entry is for 1997. not sure what happened. maybe there is another one inside the building.

ABC Wednesday                                                         signs, signs

ten of sixty sails

Sixty Sails is an outdoor art exhibit in Orillia with sculptures of eight-foot sail panels, made of lexan and supported on a hull of scrolled iron and a concrete pedestal.  I managed to see most of them on their last weekend at Thanksgiving.

Our World Tuesday

more pictures on my other blog at VioletSky

autumn

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. 

Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. 

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

Mellow Yellow Monday

looking both ways

waiting for...? or watching for...? 

while quietly treading water.

Photo Hunt-waiting

camera-critters

fresh showers

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,

from the seas and streams;

I bear light shade for the leaves when laid

in their noonday dreams.

PB Shelley
 - from The Cloud


SkyWatch Friday