resurrection fern

lili and lachy

lili and lachy

1.5 and 3 years old already

growing in strength and capabilities

lachy has started to colour with every crayon in the box

he adores his sister and wants to follow her everywhere

lili loves to explore

puddles, ice, the corners of oma's desk

she adores dressing up and dancing

and especially loves to dance to the classical music of fantasia

she pulls out the ballet slippers as often as the tap shoes now

she is trying to make sense of this natural world

we talked about the woodpecker pecking at the large maple tree

to feast on insects

oma, are insects like bugs under the rocks

yes lily they are

when it started snowing again on sunday

she asked is christmas coming again

xx 

MELTING

It was one of those March days

when the sun shines hot

and the wind blows cold:

when it is summer in the light,

and winter in the shade.

 Charles Dickens

Constant kindness can accomplish much.

As the sun makes ice melt,

kindness causes misunderstanding,

mistrust, and hostility to evaporate

albert Schweitzer

thanking lori for her gift of the sea glass

to make this ice wreath 

and her warm kind soul

enjoy your last day of winter

xx

m

 

terrain

Dear blog

sorry to have ignored you for so long

didn't really plan this but i have been super busy with family, work and making since the new year

i mean if you had to choose between playing in the snow or baking cookies with lilith and lachlan in your precious spare time or typing on a computer 

what would you do

yes

of course

I did want to show you the work for my group art show Terrain  at the Craft Ontario Shop (formerly the guild shop) in Yorkville, Toronto running from March 23 to April 12.

my work was inspired by the north, the landscape of sea, snow and ice for the majority of the year and then the uncovered tundra with its mosses, grasses , sedges and lichen with its ever so brief appearance of arctic wildflowers

the stage for these photographs was created with ice globes made by freezing water in balloons

this was facilitated by the deep freeze experienced all of the month of february

when I photographed these it was snowing softly 

it was worth my frozen finger tips

xx

arctic blues

athabasca

blue ice road to tuktuyaktuk

felsenmeer

scarp

tundra

redrock

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permafrost

spring on the tundra