April 30 - Photo of the Day
April 30, 2020 - Rainy day again, but it did stop in the afternoon, leaving a chance to go for a walk.
All the ice on Silver Lake has me...
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April 29 - Photo of the Day
April 29, 2020 - A rainy day here, all day long.
This photo was taken along my driveway.
This photo of the creek along Chief Lake Road...
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April 28 - Photo(s) of the Day
April 28, 2020 - For today I am not posting any epic landscape photo, no intimate landscape details, nor any wildlife images.
Why do I n...
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April 27 - Photo of the Day
April 27, 2020 - Many people look, but few people see.
As a long-time photographer I see the potential for images all the time, though o...
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April 26 - Photo of the Day
April 26, 2020 - Another bright sunny day today. For today's photo, I shot this road that leads to the old Long Lake Finnish cemetery.
B...
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April 25 - Photo of the Day
April 25, 2020 - We've had two bright sunny days - a photographer's worst weather. Even overcast days were better.
But this guy likes th...
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April 24 - Photo of the Day
April 24, 2020 - Some of the first signs of life springing forth.
Makes me question when life will be returning to some semblance of nor...
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April 23 - Photo of the Day
April 23, 2020 - I was out early this morning, to go grocery shopping. The temperature was -9°, so there was a decent frost.
This photo...
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April 22 - Photo of the Day
April 22, 2020 - For today's photo, I did not even leave the house.
This was our evening meal.
The Burdeniuks brought us one of Rick'...
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April 21 - Photo of the Day
April 21, 2020 - Can you convince anyone that we are a full month into spring?
This is so like spring time!
This is my 24th consecutive...
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April 20 - Photo of the Day
April 20, 2020 - It has been a very uninspiring day for photography - flat light and gusting winds.
I went for a walk behind the house a...
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April 19 - Photos of the Day
April 19, 2020 - Variable weather conditions today. This morning was clear and mild. And then this...
After this mid-day snowstorm, the...
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April 18 - Photo of the Day
April 18, 2020 - Impressions of a grove of poplars.
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April 17 - Photo of the Day
April 17, 2020 - This afternoon I wandered around the back of my property looking for details to photograph.
Because the light was flat...
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April 16 - Nostalgia Photos of the Day
April 16, 2020 - Ever since I can remember, this cedar-log sauna was a Saturday night ritual as I was growing up. My father would fire up...
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April 15 - Photos of the Day
April 15, 2020 - Today I went to the nearby creek which flows alongside the road to our house.
The high water of spring runoff provided...
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April 14 - Photo of the Day
April 14, 2020 - The photo illustrates how cold it was today.
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April 13 - Photo of the Day
April 13, 2020 - I've always preferred the art of the impressionists: Van Gogh, Mondrian, Monet, Pollock, etc.
At times I like to attemp...
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April 12 - Photo of the Day
April 12, 2020 - This evening, just across the road from our house, I saw, not the Easter Bunny, but......two deer grazing in the meadow.
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April 11 - Photo of the Day
April 11, 2020 - We had some frost this morning, so I drove down to the corner of Chief Lake Road.
Water in the creek is not very high...
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April 10 - Photo of the Day
April 10, 2020 - Good Friday: this marks my thirteenth consecutive photo of the day.
Today was at first most challenging because of the...
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April 9 - Photo of the Day
April 09, 2020 - This old hay rake is a reminder of the past, of the original Finnish immigrants who settled in our area a hundred years...
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April 8 - Photo of the Day
April 08, 2020 - When I looked out from my upstairs bedroom this morning, I saw these oak leaves scattered on the remaining snow bank. Th...
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April 7 - Photo of the Day
April 07, 2020 - This is my metaphorical image for the times.
As this tree, we are resilient and will return to normalcy. Tough situatio...
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April 6 - Photo of the Day
April 06, 2020 - We had a good frost this morning, because the temperature was -4°C.
This photo, again, was taken at my favourite wetlan...
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April 5 - Photo of the Day
April 05, 2020 - In these unprecedented times, social distancing has become the new norm, even on Chief Lake Road.
Even good friends wil...
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April 4 - Photo of the Day
April 04, 2020 - A couple days ago the first crocus blossomed at our driveway - a sure sign that spring is around the corner.
Here is my...
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April 3 - Photo of the Day
April 03, 2020 - I wasn't the only one up and about at sunrise this morning.
Again, taken at my favourite swamp down the road.
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April 2 - Photo of the Day
April 02, 2020 - The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines abstract art as follows:
achieving its effect by grouping shapes and colours in...
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April 1 - Breaking News
April 01, 2020 - Rumour has it that the city is finally going to repair our street (road).
They did the preliminary work yesterday.
S...
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