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Spring Thaw and Flood – 76/365

Posted by Ellie

I have got very behind on posting my photographs due to various factors including illness and major renovations (with huge amounts of building dust everywhere), but I am making a start on catching up. Most days I was able to take photographs, so little by little I will be sharing them here. 

On this day, although it was bitter cold, the ice had begun to melt on previous warmer days and the scene was encouraging. Winter will come to an end! I parked on the side of the road and scrambled down icy banks and through dense woods full of thorny wild rose bushes which tore into my jeans to get this image. I have to say it was better seen from the bridge, but there are huge heavy cables strung in front of the scene, so this was a better photograph. 

#365project +G+ 365 Project with thanks to +Simon Davis-Oakley +Patricia dos Santos Paton
HQSP Landscape  with grateful thanks to  +Anja Wessels +Hallie Guilfoyle +Michael Garza +Nader El Assy +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Luca Ferroglio +midori chan #hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape
#Canada   #canadianlandscapes   #novascotia  


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It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over – 57/365

Posted by Ellie
Sunset over the dykes in the Annapolis valley
Sunset over the dykes in the Annapolis valley

The sun was setting as we were coming home last evening and so this scene was a gift to me. I have been so busy this week that I have had little time to do everything I want. So when this image came into view, I jumped out of the car and took the photograph. It is looking across the dykes in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. The sun as it set almost looked like a red torch (or flashlight) beaming up from the horizon. By the time I stopped to get this, it had changed, but still was lovely.

Barn with the Rusted Roof – Ontario, October 2013

Posted by Ellie

I was reminded last week that it had been some time since I posted a farming photograph (for Farm Friday, our own theme!) and this reminded me that I have a few waiting to be shared. This one was taken on an outing with my host in Ontario, on an overcast day in October. He had heard of our theme and was determined to drive me to picturesque barns and scenes and this is one of them. I don't know exactly where it was, but not too far from Ottawa.

For one of our favourite themes, #farmfriday  +Farm Friday curated by +Steven Kennard and myself, +Ellie Kennard  and for 

#hqsplandscape , +HQSP Landscape curated by +Hallie Guilfoyle +Michael Garza +Nader El Assy +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Luca Ferroglio +midori chan

#colorsonfriday +ColorsOnFriday by +Britta Rogge +Karsten Meyer
and
#landscapephotography +Landscape Photography +Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +Jim Warthman +Kevin Rowe +Jeff Beddow +Tom Hierl +Carolyn Lim +Tom Sloan +Howard L. Smith +Jack Stepanyan +Kai Kosonen +Tony Heyward +Sheila B. DuBois +Sandra Brown


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Winter Wonderland, February – 42/365

Posted by Ellie

Every day  Every moment is unique. From one minute to the next the sun moves across the sky from sunrise to sunset, the colour and quality of the light changes, a cloud passes, trees and plants grow. In the winter we have very occasionally a soft and fluffy snowfall, with perfect conditions to resemble a film-set winter wonderland. The temperature has to be right, the air has to be perfectly still so that the snow stays on the trees and outlines every twig and branch and every needle of the evergreens. When this happens (which often seems to be in the night), the moment is truly wonderful and, in the stillness, with the snow softly falling, you could really find yourself in a dream world. To have two days of this type of snowfall is very rare. If you don't have your camera and take the picture when the moment is upon you, you lose it forever.

Yesterday morning was the morning after the second consecutive one of this kind of snowfall. The trees here looked as if they were hanging with cotton balls.

By this morning there was little snow left on the branches as it had all fallen to the ground. The special feel is gone until the next time. This is one of my favourite trees in our garden and you can just see our house roof behind it. I had not realized quite how much the trees on the right, and this tree itself, were leaning away from the prevailing wind direction until I took this photograph.. 

I took this photograph specially for +Heiko Mahr who asked me if it looked like a winter wonderland where we live. As you can see, it did look like it, Heiko! And no doubt it will again before the snow melts.

#365project +G+ 365 Project by +Simon Davis-Oakley +Patricia dos Santos Paton

#whitewednesday +White Wednesday by +Synnøve Zynne Tilrem
#winterwednesday by +Antoine Berger +Logan Miller
#hqsplandscape , +HQSP Landscape curated by +Hallie Guilfoyle +Michael Garza +Nader El Assy +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Luca Ferroglio +midori chan

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