Openings, however small,
can appear when sought,
so push your tendrils up and out
to drink the light
right where you are,
stitching stem to the soil
and arching your leaves to the sky.
Category: Photography
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Shapes and Lines in Sky, Snow, Basilica,Dogwood Tree, Stream, and Boulder
Liberty Missouri, 2024 
Liberty Missouri, 2025 
Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal, 2025 
Dogwood Tree in Liberty, Missouri 2025 
Boyd Conservation Park, Ontario 2025 
Crawford Lake Conservation Area, Ontario 2025 -
Riverwood Conservancy
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Brandy Lake, Port Carling
Photo shows a wavy rocky shoreline with three grey boulders and a tree stump in the foreground. Across the top of the frame is the reflection of trees with bright orange leaves mixed with some green conifers. 
This image contains a triangular shape in the lower left corner, which is the edge of a white lakeside dock. Extending from the top left corner to the lower right corner is the watery reflection of a long black tree branch with many smaller branches fanning out from the central one. In the top right corner are amorphous reflections in orange and green in the blue-grey water. 
The photograph depicts a misty dawn beside the lake shore. The upper third of the photo shows a clump of trees with indistinct forest in the background. A band of cool blue mist covers the transition from shore to water, and the lower two-thirds of the frame contains impressionistic reflections of trees in the water. The water’s colours are white, turquoise, and dark blue. 
A triangular wedge of a grey dock fills the lower left corner of the frame. In the middle lies a calm dark blue lake. Across the top of the frame is a band of distant trees topped by blue sky that contains white clouds and dark clouds in different sizes. 
This image shows the same misty sunrise scene as the one described two pictures ago, but the colours are different. A ghostly band of dark purple mist connects the trees to their reflections in the water. The water’s colours are yellow, lavender, and purple. -
Garden Mosaic Moment, Milkweed, and Trees
Garden Mosaic Moment. Photo shows a grey fragment of concrete with a raised pattern of squares in the lower half of the frame, a grey stone in the upper left, and a small pink stone in the upper right. Between the grey and pink stone rests a glass marble with swirls of blue and yellow. Small green plants and a few brown maple keys fill the negative space between the objects. 
Meadow Way Milkweed. The photo provides a zoomed-in view of a milkweed pod with brown felt-like milkweed seeds with white strands fanning out in different directions. The seeds have burst out of the pod and fill the majority of the photo frame. Some green leaves and a few brown stems offer background texture. 
Tree Beside Meadow Way Trail. In this photo, the silvery-brown base of a tree extends from the top left to the bottom left and middle of the frame in a steep curve. Beyond the trunk, a patch of green meadow can be detected between the low-hanging leaves in shades of dark and light green. 
Park Near Kingston Road and Birchmount, Scarborough. The photo depicts three trees in a park. On the left, the tree has partially shed its orange leaves, which cover the grass. The middle tree is larger and mostly leafless. It has a striking shadow that extends from its trunk to the bottom right corner of the frame. The tree on the right is also bare of leaves for the most part. A small section of blue sky is present in the distance. -
Two Haikus
Photo shows a flower painted on the pavement of an alley. Following the line of a crack, a green stem has been added with spray paint, and magenta petals have also been painted around the maintenance cover hole to complete the flower image. Imagination
transforms cracks to stems,
makes steel circles bloom.
Image portrays a discarded white wooden door that lies on the lawn outside a house. Rain-softened by time,
lock opens to soulful green
guests it once refused.
The photo is a close-up of the previous image of the discarded door. It shows splintered wood and gaps where the lock used to be. Green clover fills some of the gaps, sprouting through the hole as well as growing in a patch to the left of the door. -
Belfountain Conservation Area, Ontario
Image shows a large fountain shaped like a chess piece with jets of water falling in arcs to the pool at the base of the fountain. A thick canopy of trees topped by a blue sky and fluffy white clouds are in the background. 
The photo depicts the Credit River curving to the right and disappearing into a forest. A blue summer sky appears in a V-shaped wedge between the trees and above the water. The lower right section of the photo contains rocky reddish-brown land at the river’s shoreline. 
In the lower left corner of this image is the left hand of the photographer partly submerged in the bubbly current of the Credit River. The photographer’s thumb rests against a stone. 
The photo shows three leaves in green, yellow, and a hint of orange that have fallen into the river. The water’s current can be seen flowing over the leaves in a wavy pattern. 
The photo contains an image of the photographer. She is wearing a orange and brown striped blouse with a V-neck. She has shoulder-length brown hair, purple glasses, and a smiling expression. -
Summer Visit to Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal
Back Garden Gate in an Alley (Photo shows a wooden fence with a large orange wooden disc with two stylized figures playing horns. The top of the image is framed by dappled green leaves). 
Cat-like Crayon Monster Mural (Photo depicts a purplish-blue monster who is gathering up large green and yellow leaves while gnawing on a yellow crayon that doubles as a tower of a castle). 
Two Squirrels Scamper on Second-Story Balcony Next to Red Outdoor Staircase (Image shows one of the squirrels climbing up the side of the balcony to reach its floor while the other squirrel regards the viewer further up in the frame, having already ascended to the balcony floor). -
Studies in Green and Magenta
Photo taken in Scarborough. It shows three white leaves with green patterns in the middle resting at different angles on a bed of raindrop-dotted green leaves. 
Still from a video taken in Bloorcourt, Toronto. Image shows a magenta cone flower with an orange, black, and white butterfly visiting it. In the background are long green leaves and part of a decorative steel fence. 
Photo taken in Scarborough. Magenta Cosmo flowers cast shadows of themselves on the sidewalk to their left, creating patterns in the interplay of negative space. -
Puddle Scene in Scarborough, Ontario and Rainy Day in Liberty, Missouri
Lavender Puddle Beside the Parking Lot, Jack Goodlad Park with Reflected Telephone Poles, Scarborough Ontario (2024) 
Purple Iris Beaded with Droplets, Liberty Missouri (2024) 
Raindrops on Hosta Plants, Liberty Missourii (2024) 
Edges of Hosta Leaves Create Curtain-Like Effect, Liberty Missouri (2024) 
Rainfall Rushes in Gutter in Shades of Olive, Brown, and Black, Liberty Missouri (2024) -
March Willow, April Snow, November Willow
Nantucket Street, Scarborough (2024). Image shows a large willow tree with branches beginning to show long vine-like leaves. The top half of the tree is reflected in a wide blue and slate-gray puddle that covers part of an empty parking lot. Smaller puddles reflect sections of the trunk in the water. 
Nantucket Street Willow (2024). The photo frame is filled with the twisting shapes of willow branches and their hair-like leaves hanging down against a light blue sky. 
Outside Victoria Park Subway Station (2024). A streetlight illuminates an inky dark blue sky and countless individual lines of light falling at different angles (which are how the camera interpreted the snowflakes). 
Snowfall Under the Streetlights, Victoria Park Subway Station (2024). This abstract mages shows extended lines of gold neon light in diagonal patterns against a background of teal and dark purple. 
Nantucket Street Willow (2024). In this image, the camera lens is focused on the top half of a willow tree whose dark curving branches support thick cascades of narrow green and yellow leaves. A close-up of intensely yellow leaves are flying horizontally across the very top of the frame. Small patches of blue sky are visible behind the willow. 
Nantucket Street Willow (2024). This willow photo is similar to the previous one. The difference is that it is more narrowly focused on the central thick branch and the seven or eight smaller branches that curve in different directions away from it. The flowing leaves seem thicker at closer range and the patches of sky look bigger. -
Lakeside Mornings
Heart Lake, Brampton (2023) 
Guild Beach (2024) 
Guildwood (2024) 
East Point Park (2024) 
East Point Park (2024) 
East Point Park (2024) 
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Impressions of Progress Campus
Forest Behind Progress Campus (2023) 
Near the Banks of Highland Creek Behind Progress Campus (2023) 
Tree Reflections in Highland Creek (2023) -
Impressions of Ashtonbee Campus and Nearby Sites
Mystic Skittle, Ashtonbee Library (2016) 
Ashtonbee Library (2016) 
Grasses Beside Ashtonbee Campus Parking Lot (2020) 
Ashtonbee Library Exterior, South Side (2024) 
Ashtonbee Campus Hub (2024) 
Ashtonbee Campus Hub (2023) 
Wexford Woods (2018) 
Meadow Way at Dusk (2024) 
Waiting to Cross Birchmount and Rejoin Meadow Way at Twilight (2024) 
Meadow Way (2023) 
Meadow Way Contra Jour (2023) 
Meadow Way Winter Arch (2023) 
Self-Portrait Among Meadow Way Grasses (2023) 
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Heart Mosaic’s Evolution
May 2017 
May 2017 
May 2017 
May 2017 
August 2017 Memorial for Heather Heyer 
October 2017 
October 2017 
2018 Red beads from Grandmother Raine (1911-2008) 
2018 Marble from Uncle Doug Jones (1935-2005) and bead from Grandmother Raine 
May 2019 
June 2019 From Uncle Doug’s collection of enamel objects 
June 2019 From Uncle Doug’s collection 
June 2019 Uncle Doug’s marble 
June 2019 From Uncle Doug’s collection 
June 2019 From Uncle Doug’s collection (with bonus portal to bees’ home) 
June 2019 From Uncle Doug’s collection 
September 2019 Marble from Uncle Doug 
September 2019 From Uncle Doug’s enamel collection 
September 2019 
May 2020 
May 2020 
June 2020 
June 2020 
2023 
2025 
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Belleville Sojourn
Sagonaska River, Belleville 
Sunrise meets the banks of the Sagonaska 
Riverside Park West 
Return to Toronto by ViA Rail -
Images of the Meadoway and Rouge National Urban Park
Black Locust Tree of the Meadoway in September, Scarborough Ontario 
Black Locust Tree in October 
Mast Trail, Rouge Park 
Mast Trail 
Rouge River 
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Interplay of Leaves, Grasses, Bark, Flowers, and Light
Alley Walk, Liberty Missouri 
Liberty Missouri 
Liberty Missouri 
Liberty Missouri 
Scarborough Ontario -
Portpatrick, Largs, Pollok Country Park, and Glasgow
Portpatrick 
Portpatrick 
Old Parish Kirk Grounds, Portpatrick 
Old Parish Kirk Grounds, Portpatrick 
Old Parish Kirk Grounds, Portpatrick 
Old Parish Kirk Grounds, Portpatrick 
Largs 
River Cart 
River Cart 
Pollok Country Park 
Pollok Country Park 
Pollok Country Park 
Whitelee Windfarm 
Whitelee Windfarm 
Pollokshields, Glasgow
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Rambunctious Summer Clouds
Near Victoria Park Station, Toronto (2023) 
Jutting Eave of Victoria Park Station Entrance (2023)
