Every winter a blanket of snow settles on Manitoba. Any lingering snowbirds swiftly point themselves southwards and most warm blooded creatures delve into the deepest burrows they can muster. A rare few venture out to establish themselves on the bleak landscape, in pursuit of the cold blood that lurks beneath their feet. Walking on water, they hunt with an auger and a fishing rod.
Each hunter carefully chooses a spot on the frozen expanse that is Lake Winnipeg and,…
2015: it has been a year of deep valleys and high peaks for me, both literally and figuratively.
It began in the hospital, at the bedside of someone I deeply care for. Here, winter and spring blurred by slowly in a haze of emotion, my life taking on a holding pattern as I entered a full-time support role for those around me. The next thing I knew, it was summer. At this point, the health challenges still had not gone away, but they had changed and those of us intimately…
I am not a bird that flies south. Rather, a winter escape for me is to leave dirty city streets behind and seek out a spot where the snow is still pure white. This year, the escape was to a cozy cabin on the blank canvas that is Lake Winnipeg.…
Autumn was short and sweet this year. And as the geese fly south anticipating winter I hunker down for hibernation here in Winnipeg. Let it snow, let it snow…
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Enjoy!…
I suppose you could say I have decided to start decorating desktops for people, because I’m now going to share high resolution wallpapers here. To view all the wallpapers in the future, select the Wallpapers category in the blog menu and a list of all the wallpaper posts will show up.
To get things started off, this is an image I shot in the twilight before sunrise out at Matlock, MB. This quiet little town is on the edge of Lake Winnipeg. It…
