Shift
Posted: July 6, 2015 Filed under: Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto, Water | Tags: art, Brick Works, merge, nature, pond, Toronto, water lilies 4 CommentsI have two blogs–this one that I now rarely post on and an art blog that I post on more frequently. Being in nature in and out of the city is a large part of what sustains me in life and allows me to create. So I’ve decided to merge both blogs by creating a nature photography section in my art blog. I’m not removing Of Humans and Nature, just not adding to it.
If you’d like to see additional nature photos of mine, do go to Arts of May. And many thanks to those of you who’ve dropped by Of Humans and Nature and who have followed me. All the best to you.
Spring at the Brick Works in Toronto. ©Lily S. May 2015
How Sweet It Is
Posted: February 10, 2015 Filed under: Inspiration, Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto | Tags: Brickworks, light, snow, Toronto 2 CommentsHere’s a post after a long hiatus. I went to the Brickworks on this sunny day in Toronto. There, the light on the snow, the dried grasses, the trees were a boost to my spirit.
Trees of Gold
Posted: October 30, 2014 Filed under: Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto | Tags: autumn, autumn leaves, Canada, colour, gold, orange, Toronto Leave a commentA glorious sight this morning: the sun on orange gold trees.
October 30, 2014 in Toronto, Canada
Toronto, Canada, Oct 30, 2014
Still In This World
Posted: June 7, 2014 Filed under: Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto | Tags: blossoms, computers, dwarf irises, flowers, gardens, irises, spring, Toronto Leave a commentHi people. I’m still alive after my recent break from posting. The old computer suddenly ceased functioning with an electrical short and a puff of the scary scent of electrical burning filling the rooms. Since then I’ve been learning a new system. These dwarf irises are from a Toronto garden in May. Since then great blossoming has taken place. We’ve had daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, redbud trees, magnolias, crabapples and cherry blossoms. These have all gone and now we’re awash with the fading, but still romantic scent of lilacs, lilies of the valley and peonies.
Fowl and Fido
Posted: May 1, 2014 Filed under: Animal Life, Ontario, Toronto, Water | Tags: birds, Brickworks, dog, Double-Crested Cormorant, Evergreen Brickworks, fido, mallard, nature, pond, red-wing blackbirds, swallows, Toronto, urban nature, waterfowl Leave a commentI went to the Brickworks last Sunday. The air was awash with the calls of red-wing blackbirds and soaring and diving swallows. I came upon mallards and cormorants in the ponds, plus a mournful and patient dog awaiting the return of his human companions.
A mallard at the Brickworks, Toronto, April 27, 2014
Double-Crested Cormorant at the Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto, April 27, 2014
Woof. When are they coming back to me?!
Rabbit or Hare?
Posted: April 28, 2014 Filed under: Animal Life, Ontario, Toronto | Tags: Brickworks, hare, rabbit, railroad tracks, Toronto, wild flowers 2 CommentsLast June, as I was walking through the wild flowers beside the railroad tracks to go to the Brickworks in Toronto, I came upon this rabbit or hare late in the afternoon. If anyone can identify this animal, I’d be happy to know which creature it is.
Rabbit or hare, early June 2013, Toronto.
Spring is Coming to Todmorden Mills
Posted: April 8, 2014 Filed under: Animal Life, Inspiration, Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto, Water | Tags: birds, buds, climate change, green, spring, Todmorden Mills, Toronto, trees, urban nature, woods 2 Comments
On Sunday, I went again to Todmorden Mills in Toronto. It was sunny and relatively mild–around 8 or 9 Celsius. I walked on the little wildflower path through trees and by a pond and streams. On the way, I’d seen a cardinal atop a naked tree–pointed out to me by a young couple passing by. In the woods, I heard chickadees and a red winged blackbird. And a woman walking her dogs pointed out a woodpecker–I think it was a downy–on a nearby tree that she was photographing. I searched the ground for tiny green shoots, leaves and moss, looked in the trees and shrubs for buds and came upon a squirrel looking down at me while munching a nut.
I was thinking about the latest climate change report that came out several days earlier warning again about the changes to the climate that are already here and that will be coming. I thought about what we gain and lose when nature is protected or harmed. When I am in a natural setting, urban or more wild, I feel a link to something larger than myself. I am a living being among others in nature. I know my experience is not unique and that the companionship of humans and non is vitally important for my, and others, well-being.
More Spring Dreams
Posted: April 5, 2014 Filed under: Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto | Tags: cold, dreams, flowers, garden, spring, Toronto Leave a commentIt’s very windy and hovering around freezing today. Back to dreams of spring. This is another photo from last year, soon to arrive in Toronto, believe it or not.
Coming Soon to Toronto Gardens
Posted: April 3, 2014 Filed under: Ontario, Plant Life, Toronto | Tags: crocuses, dreams, flowers, gardens, spring, Toronto 2 CommentsThe temperature goes up and down as we make our way to warmer weather. I found the following photograph of crocuses that I took in mid April last year. Crocuses have even entered my dreams–I came upon a scene the other night very much like what’s pictured in the photo.
Crocuses in a Toronto garden, April 2013.
The Tree That Held Up the Cloud
Posted: March 19, 2014 Filed under: Ontario, Plant Life, Sky, Toronto | Tags: bare branches, cloud, Toronto, tree Leave a commentIt’s been a grey day in Toronto. We’re moving slowly toward spring, but it’s not here yet. The trees’ bare branches will be with us for a while longer. In January, I saw this peach coloured cloud sitting in the arms of a tree in the neighbourhood.
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