Shadowland
February 23, 2009 | Filed Under Black and White, General | Leave a Comment
“I look out the window sometimes to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.” - Grandma Moses
White water
February 22, 2009 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
” … and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms .” - William Bradford
A winter drive
February 19, 2009 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
The armoured limousine carrying Barack Obama to Parliament Hill passes along Colonel By Drive in Ottawa, the parkway along the Rideau Canal. - 19 February 2009
Hay on ice
February 14, 2009 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
Hay left behind in a field is caught first by the winter snow, then a February thaw followed by a deep winter freeze. - 14 February 2009
On the coldest day
February 9, 2009 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
“There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill. It finally melts the great snow, and in January or July is only buried under a thicker or thinner covering. In the coldest day it flows somwhere, and the snow melts around every tree.” - Henry David Thoreau - A Winter Walk (1843).
The blue window
February 3, 2009 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
A window in New Hampshire on a morning in February.
‘Yes we can’
February 1, 2009 | Filed Under Black and White, General, Portraits | Leave a Comment
“For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we’ve been told we’re not ready or that we shouldn’t try or that we can’t, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, we can. It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can. It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and equality. Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can repair this world. Yes, we can.” - Barack Obama, Nashua, New Hampshire - 8 January 2008