There’s always a bit of nervous excitement surrounding storm season for Southern Ontario. While we want to see some picturesque storms, we also hope that they don’t do much damage. It’s a bit of wishful thinking because severe storms are often accompanied by strong wind, heavy rain, and hail; the very things that give ...
I spend an inordinate amount of time looking up; day or night, in any season. In line with that ‘looking’ is the checking of forecasts and models. The amount of time spent doing those things increases in the summer months but it does occur year round. Watching the skies in the winter months is usually ...
“Our experience is governed by pictures.” Douglas Crimp said that. It’s something I came to realize when I eventually got into photography and one of the reasons I find photography such a compelling medium. When I was young, our library had these hard-bound books that contained historical issues of ...
Another hack at selecting text to weave narrative. Same book as before (chapter-xxii) but from a different chapter. I actually had to google what or who Erebus was. It was obvious that the word had associations to darkness from its usage but I didn’t know what it actually was. When you read the actual text ...
Well, July is proving to be THE month for severe storms in Ontario this year. The month isn’t over yet and we already have fourteen confirmed tornadoes*. June and July of last year (2020) saw fourteen and twelve respectively, as well. Some big numbers for a single month in Ontario. Before the Northern Tornadoes Project ...
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my ...
I like the snow. Winter storms hold almost as much allure as the warm weather variety. Upon close inspection, the individual precipitation pieces are more intricate and visually appealing in the frozen rendering. The snow also puts a hush over things that I find calming. As a visual construct, all the white that accompanies ...
Well, winter is officially here. I guess. Traditionally, there have been a variety of ways to mark the start of the winter season here in Ontario. December 1st is the start of ‘meteorological’ winter – the months of December, January, and February marking the frigid quarter of the year. December 21st of ...