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"