A Promise of Spring

Oh wind, if winter comes can spring be far behind?

 

Study in Grey ( january day on the island)

 

pre dawn gleaming with Arcturus peeking from the clouds before winking out in the morning light

 

Selkirk Waterway

  

 

Heron Zen

 

Evening Beckoning



A Painter's Dawn

Just a short drive down Burnside Road East takes you into the Saanich area where you can find fields and woodlands and small lakes. Wildlife abounds so don't drive too quickly as a family of deer may be crossing the road before twilight and owls fly low with a loud swooshing



Through bushes and through briars




Farms and ranches are part of the scenic drive which lie just outside Victoria, BC.

Pastoral skies

I had to throw this one in though it was taken last year. I came across it in one of my albums as I was sorting - a young and solitary, moulting elephant seal that I almost stepped on at the beach last spring.  He was blissfully dreaming- but of what I wonder?  perhaps of when the seas were boiling hot,or shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings?
anyway, a beautiful, silly faced creature who reminds us to take life slowly and to smile.

Blissful slumber- "e dolce far niente"

 

  

Dream studies

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde

I sometimes use Gimp brushes by Obsidian Dawn and Frostbo

and have begun making greeting cards and prints of my images



the fairy queen

Morning is my beginning
^"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things" (Jesus of Nazareth)
This was taken in a field outside of Peachland in the Okanagan

The gardens of Victoria are delightful and magical and definitely enhance an evening walk on the estuary


Breathing the light of the garden
 










Night Falls on Fairieland

Fairieland Vespers

 

 

Tread carefully in the tulgey wood

 

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams 

 

Bravehearts in inclement weather

 

 

Almost Winter in Portage Park - Nov 2012


 

The peace of this place is always so soothing.  Snow berries line the path and  soon the winter unicorn will appear and finally a snowfall in the meadow. I can't wait.


I took the road less travelled and that has made all the difference  R.Frost

woodland magic

 More chapters for dreamers - dream shadows

 

 

for Christmas magic (from 2012)