Enchanting Essex

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  • The Flower Hour #31:  Lilac is more than a flower…

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    My trusty friend, The OED, tells me that the colour “lilac” is a moderate to pale grayish-purple or a light purplish-pink.  With apologies to Terri, our Lilacs have finished here in southern Ontario, and the only Lupins I know of are in the Monty Python sketch “Dennis Moore” —  “Give me all your Lupins!” —…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #398: Choose A Colour

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    You may share one photo featuring each of the following captivating colors in their various shades: red, blue, green, purple, orange, and yellow. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.† And never is that more apparent than in the world of wildflowers. Thank you to Ritva for designing such an interesting, interpretive, and creative…

  • The Flower Hour #30: A Wealth of Lilacs

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    A wealth of lilacs have I here,Their mystic whispers stir my ear.Their lovely fragrance fills my heart,As memories their blooms impart.* Lilacs are synonymous with home for me.  My dad planted a row along the two sides and back of our yard to make a privacy  hedge, and, this time every year, their fragrance was…

  • Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture — Touch Comes Before Sight*

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    Lens Artist Challenge #397: Texture This week Anne is inspiring us with this challenge: How do we make our two-dimensional medium feel like three-dimensions? Texture, however, gives us the visual quality of a surface — how rough, smooth, gritty, or soft it appears in a two-dimensional image. Show us your images where texture plays an integral part.  Texture…

  • Black and White is More!

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    Six months or so after moving into this home, and after many hours of discussion, we decided to sell my Rogue (affectionately, “The Mudmobile”) and become a one-car couple.  There were many positives and, truly, the negatives have been minimal and manageable.  But there are hiccups, and today was a very minor one of those.…

  • Glorious Gooses

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    Canada Gooses are majestic. Barrel-chested.The envys of all ornithologys.† This post is inspired by an article in today’s papers:    Ontario man fined $1,000 for ‘throwing large rocks and swatting’ at Canada geese It is the story of a cruel and ignorant resident of my beloved Essex County who, first caught a gosling, and then…

  • Essex Erato #11

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    Flicker handsomely moustachedflitting around the forestbeauty in the sky But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • The Flower Hour #29:  Vis Medicatrix Naturæ* 

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    Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.2 Tramping through the woods at Wheatley Provincial Park yesterday, nature’s peace did indeed flow into me and, happily, there were windflowers galore! Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge # 396 – Pick a Favourite Quote and Illustrate it

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    This week you can choose one quote accompanied with a maximum of five pictures or a maximum of five quotes illustrated with one picture each. Make us “feel”your quote(s) in pictures! Annie Dillard: “Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out…

  • The Flower Hour #28:  In The Ripples of the Water

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    First and always, thank you so much to the wonderful Terri for continuing this most enjoyable weekly prompt.  Nothing makes me happier than to see the beautiful floral images posted by everyone!  Please check out Terri’s post- as always, it’s very interesting, and her pictures are exquisite: The Flower Hour #28: Flowers in Water I apologize…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #395 — On the Water:  Liquid Lapse of Thought*

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    Lens Artists Photo Challenge #395 – Looking back to #151 On the Water Some of my favourite creatures to photograph live in shallow water habitats — ponds, creeks and, my favourite, marshes.  Wearing my water shoes, I’m not averse to mucking about in those areas, but my entire world changed when I got my kayak.…

  • The Flower Hour #27 – Pussytoes

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    Pussytoes fledgling new blossomsantennaria spreading‘tho cold spring breezes blow Thanks to Terri for another Flower Hour post that made me smile. Please take a minute to visit her site and enjoy her gorgeous images and the stories behind them, you’ll be glad you did, promise: The Flower Hour #27: Daffodils Celebrate Earth Day ‘Til next…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #394 — Yesterday is History

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    Yesterday is History Yesterday is History,‘Tis so far away —Yesterday is Poetry —‘Tis Philosophy — Yesterday is mystery —Where it is TodayWhile we shrewdly speculateFlutter both away† ‘Though our history is a mere fledgling compared to most of the world, I’m very proud of it and, thanks to John’s brilliant challenge, so happy to share…

  • The Flower Hour #26: Lucky Flower Shots – Lucky Me

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    You know what luck is?  Luck is believing you’re lucky.† Yesterday was meant to be my first solo outing of the spring.  We’ve established a very nice little routine for those days, Cam and I:  He drives to the golf club and leaps out (actually, at our ages, “leap” is the tiniest of exaggerations), I…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge #393 — Lucky Shot

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    I struggled with this challenge.  Come to think of it, I’ve written that same sentence with regards to a few of these challenges and I’ve not even been doing them all that long.  In many respects, I think mine is an appropriate reaction — it is a challenge, after all… My first photography teacher (Dad)…

  • The Flower Hour #25: Coneflower Conviviality

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    This beauty is a non-native, robust, pollinator-friendly herbaceous perennial. The etymology of Echinacea is the ancient Greek word ekhinos (ἐχῖνος). The modern Greek word, achinós (αχινός) translates to sea urchin, and has become a fundamental noun in both botany and zoology, where it is used to describe plants and organisms that are thorny, spiky, prickly, barbed, or spinous.…

  • Essex Erato #10

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    dinner with resourcefulness the cunning, clever hunter gets his prey, his meal But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #9

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    picnic table summer nostalgia family, food, kites, swims, friends sweet memories all But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #8

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    frog lurking, green and brown ‒ both he and his wetland home beware flies, beware But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #7

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    cattails tall marsh habitat concealing nests and perches protecting its dwellers But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #6

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    snow field white, sparkling, pristine snow angel invitation i cannot resist But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #5

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    trail tranquil wanderings watching, smelling, listening camera in hand But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #4

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    pebbles created by waves polished, smooth, shaped for my hand chosen, held, cherished But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato #3

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    egret solitary strength simplicity of fishing pure, patient, peaceful But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.

  • Essex Erato 2

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    deer gentle gracefulness calm, quiet intuition watching, listening But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.† †John Muir, “Steep Trails” — Page 1343, Chapter IX Mormon Lilies from his anthology “John Muir: Ultimate Collection”.