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 ...
This is the view across the inlet at Tofino (Clayoquot Sound). It’s Opitsaht, spelled also as Opitsat and Opitsitah, a Tla-o-qui-aht community in the southwest area of Meares Island (I’d love to know the traditional name of Meares Island but I can’t find it at the moment; if you know leave me a comment). ...
I’ve been watching the wind course through the trees on our property. There’s only half the usual leaves left on the trees at this point; the hard frost we got a couple nights back forced many to give up on their high purchase and descend to cover anything underneath the canopy – our neighbour’s ...
That’s the the bay of Cassis, France. It’s a beautiful area. The geography of the place is dynamic, with fabulous ochre-coloured calanques – narrow, steep-walled inlets – that make for some wonderful scenery along the coast. I wanted to include this one in my Atmosphere images but it was shot with a ...