Dianne

Mccarthy

One of the very rare days of sun in Ontario (Canada) this winter, I liked the golden, heavy sky, the silvery smooth foreground and the curls of the iron boat sculptures.

“Autumn... the year’s last, loveliest smile.”

by William Cullen Bryant 🍁

“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” 🍁

by Diana Gabaldon

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” 🍁🍂
by Virginia Woolf

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonize.” 🍂🍁
by George Eliot

This water tower is located in Washago (from Ojibway meaning a place of ‘clear and sparkling water’). Once used by the railroad it is the 1st stop northwest of Toronto for Via Rails’s CANADIAN.

“At sunrise the blue sky paints herself with gold colours and joyfully dances to the music of a morning breeze.”
by Debasish Mridha

I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It’s a great time to get up and have a coffee on the dock before the world wakes up.

The Canadian Shield is a huge rock formation stretching from Labrador to the Arctic covering parts of 5 provinces and the Northwest Territories. This is a scenic view facing west towards Port
Carling (Ontario) from the Huckleberry Rock Cut. 🇨🇦

“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It’s a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that’s you.”
by Christopher Paul Curtis

“Like the ivy, life is a composite of strengths, weaknesses, endurance, compassion and love.”
by Lu Cile Ivey from Ivy on the Wall

In this natural composition of a flat lay photo I liked the light and the contrasting shapes, textures and sizes of the leaves.

“A summer leaf embraced by the frozen ice keeps memories warm.” by Avi (aka Edward Irving Mortice) 🍁

“The crows above the wood lot are out on flapping wings and in the dooryard maple an early robin sings. Beside the barn the cattle stand warming in the sun and it is clear that spring is here and sugaring has begun.” by Florence Boyce-Davis 🍁

A curving country road, a row of budding lilacs, misty morning fog and an old fashioned street light set the scene for my capturing this dark and moody image.

🛟 Lifeboat #9 is one of many from the S.S. Keewatin which sailed the Great Lakes until 1965. Built 1907, Keewatin will be moved from Port McNicholl to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario by early fall 2023.
🛟 Year round I enjoy capturing the history represented by the last Edwardian-era Steamliner in existence.

“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.”
by John Burroughs (1837 - 1921) American naturalist and essayist.

“When your barn is well filled all snug and secure, Be thankful to God and remember the poor.”
This inscription (1863) is carved in stone on a wall at Rockwood Academy, Rockwood, Ontario, Canada.

Sub-freezing temperatures combined with sunny days form the most unlikely artwork of Mother Nature - icicles, which are always pretty in scenic photos of winter wonderlands.

Cheeky seagulls are always eager to prove they’re the best photobombers in the animal kingdom!