It’s still too cold for frail moths seeking moonlight, and yet… 🌙
© Karen McRae, 2018
spring
Sketching the Spring Landscape
Camera play: Photographs made from a moving car using a ‘point and shoot’ camera (Olympus Tough TG4) and polarized sun glasses as an improvised filter. It’s not very green here yet but we are getting there.
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© Karen McRae, 2016
A Residual Winter Breath (2)
There was a small taste of spring here before winter came back to to say its goodbyes. The cold and strong winds of a few days ago have fashioned some icy sculptures along the river’s edge and on this quiet morning a thin layer of fresh ice was singing and straining under the stirring of a waking river. Later today we are promised snow and the landscape will transform temporarily yet again. As much as I find these transformations fascinating and lovely to photograph, I think I am quite ready for real spring. 
Below: click on image to open gallery view.
© Karen McRae, 2016
(D)Rift
Photographs of some of the last river ice, and remnants of this past winter. The river is wide open and the remaining ice is diminishing quickly in the rain, wind and warmer temperatures.
© Karen McRae, 2016
Roadside, Creekside
Moving and (relatively) still.
[A ‘drive-by’ pine and a double exposure creek. Nothing is straight forward, it seems…]
© Karen McRae, 2015
A Brief Efflorescence
While we are walking, waking, breathing.
© Karen McRae, 2015
Spring Rush 2
A lot can change in a couple of weeks. The landscape is now teeming with life and tender growth. Heatwaves and sunshine. The pace of change is almost dizzying. It’s hard to keep up with everything. I have had a chance to check in on the purple martins, though, who have returned from their far-away winter grounds in Brazil. They are busy catching insects, bickering, and setting up house for this year’s breeding. Pictured here is a female martin in flight.
© Karen McRae, 2015
Spring Rush
A little waterfall along one of the many creeks that rush (or trickle) into the now wide open river. It is only the water that’s in a hurry, it seems ~ spring is still dancing quite slowly across the landscape.
© Karen McRae, 2015
The Softening
Little glimpses of the softening landscape and the play of light and shadow by roadsides. Spring has been set in glorious motion and there was a collective sigh of relief from the landscape and its inhabitants.
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© Karen McRae, 2015
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