Spooky spinsters

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft. ~Sven Nykvist

Duality

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb

Shells on ice

I found these remnants of spring basking in the winter sun on a patch of bubbly ice on Christmas day... thought they looked like a lovely decoration of sorts. Mother Nature likes to play with the seasons like that!

The Ice Princess

Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.
~Proverb

Currently showing: Elvis On Ice!

...how we have fun on Christmas Day in Montreal! Wooo!

A bit o'warmth for the Christmas chillies

And now for a short break from the winter ice and snow... a glimpse of the Pacific coast for your viewing pleasure!

Hope you all had a beautiful and perfect Christmas, and that you can all enjoy some time off with your loved ones.

More winter pics coming up soon!

Happy Yule to everyone

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~Roy L. Smith

Round and round it goes...

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
~Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica

Holiday twinkles

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale

The dark sister

Moonlight is sculpture. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tired of the snow yet?

If you live here, you better not be... this was only the *first* snowfall of the season! LOL! It's mostly all melted away now, replaced with dismal ice and slush... but not for long, I suspect!

Purity

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
~Andrew Wyeth

More icy beauty...

Another view of the portrait Mother Nature left behind two days ago.

Winter has finally descended upon us...

Here's what the first storm of the winter left behind, to soften the blow... is this a beautiful work of art or what!

Starlings on the pier

Just another fond memory of a January afternoon stroll on the Brighton Pier, UK.

January skies at dusk

Another one of my favorites from the Brighton Pier, UK.

More Brighton beach, UK

...perhaps a better representation of the weather AND the "crowded at the seams" country! LOL

Brighton Beach, revisited

Just had an urge to sift through some UK pics from last January...
This is one of my favorites of Brighton Beach at sunset, as seen from the famous Pier.