Burning Silo

I’ve chosen three photos from the past week of shooting that I hope will provide a slightly different view of winter, snow, ice and cold. To see a larger view of each photo, just click on it.
The above photo, which I call Jagged, is what remains of a frozen stream.

The second photo, […]

For awhile, I’ve been meaning to edit some DV footage shot in Nova Scotia in July 2005. Last night, I finally got around to doing a bit of work and came across this very short but interesting clip of Chimney Swifts (Chaetura pelagica) descending into the chimney of the Robie Tufts Nature Centre in […]

…sometimes you find something unexpected….

With an unusually warm winter here in eastern Ontario, I’ve been on the lookout for snow surface invertebrate activity — and have been finding plenty. Take for instance, the above creature which, no doubt, to many, looks more like an alien space invader than an insect. However, it is […]

There are some who might debate that animals aren’t subject to such things as obsessions and psychoses. If that’s the case, then it’s difficult to come up with an explanation for the behaviour of a certain Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) that has been controlling the ground and air space around the Sugar Maple tree […]

This afternoon, I was called upon to fish the crumpled metal corpse of our rural mailbox out of a snow-filled ditch after it was cruelly side-swiped by the blade of a municipal snowplow. When faced with this task, I generally employ the “stealth mode” of retrieval, timing my foray until the highway will […]