This last week in the north Okanagan has been mild, with either overcast gray skies or, less frequently, bland blue skies. None of this inspires me to take landscape photographs. So I pivot to abstract images.

_I7A2936 _I7A2945 These are both abstract images, though the subject of the second one is recognizable to most viewers. 

_I7A2950 This can also be considered an abstract photo since its location and relative size are not apparent.

I have searched for landscape subjects. I saw these trees along the road to our house.

_D7A2211 The sky has some interest. But the problem with this image is that the two trees on the left merge.

So I searched for a better angle to separate them and took this photo.

_D7A2222 This is definitely not a good photograph. The bland blue sky is very uninspiring.

I hope that at some other time I will be able to photograph these trees with a background of a dramatic sky.

_D7A2210 On one of the aforementioned bland blue sky days I took a drive into the valley north of Vernon. I spotted a couple eagles guarding some carcass in the field some distance away. This one sat in a tree nearby.

The annual Vernon Winter Carnival took place this week. One of its attractions is snow sculptures in the village on the mountain.

These two images I took on different days: the first under overcast conditions and the second with some sunshine.

_D7A2225 _I7A2958 Note the difference in colour. But each lacks definition. Neither one was under ideal light.

I've also been processing slides which I have chosen and scanned from my extensive collection.

Here are two recent selections that were  taken in Sudbury.

961033 This sunrise is at Fielding Park on Kelly Lake.

15000078 Morning winter sunrise in fog - probably on Junction Creek in Lively.