A New Year Soon

Happy New Year

Peace, Love and Hope to all.

~JE Ted "T-bone" Gardner 

Christmas Flight

A Ravens flight

 Christmas 2012

A cold and icy eve

She winged her way 

through my wonderful Christmas scene..

Many thanks to the Raven!

Winter Graffiti

Boxing Day December 26th 2012

shot in Hurdville Ontario, just outside Parry Sound

after a Gardner Christmas.

Warm meets Cold

 Condensation in the early morning.

Minus 17 Celsius outside and a warm 22 inside. 

Merry Christmas

No matter your faith

and no matter your belief

I wish you all

a happy holiday season and the best in 2013 

Winter Interest

People don't notice whether its winter

or summer

When they're happy!

~Anton Chekhov

Suspended

December's Sunset

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence...

~ John Keats

Carduelis flammea

Had a visit from some winter finches yesterday,

aprox 20 Common Redpolls spent some time at our feeders.

Hope to see the again!

Winters Advance

Across the water winter grows 

 towards the other side

Soon he will cover all

And hide the waters palette 

All her shimmer and colour

and mirrored skies

All is to be lost beneath winters grasp

The best one can know

is simply ...winter can't last

~JE Ted Gardner

Still Watch

Built for the Canadian Government as the coast gaurd research vessel Ville Marie in 1960-1984

Purchased by a religous organization she was renamed Heavenbound.

Renamed in 1995 Still Watch

Sporting the unoffficial name Vast Explorer in 2002 she was used in 22 episodes of a fictional TV series called Adventures inc. starring Michael Biehn, mostly shot in the Toronto harbour. It was discontinued after the death of one of the principle actors after the first season. 

she weighs 390 tons and was built by the Russel Brothers of Owen Sound

to this day she is still used as a research/survey vessel.

home port Pentetang...Images here shot at Parry Sound.

In Memory

Its been just more than a year

that our boys, Chauncey and Angus

passed on.

To a place of many chipmunks, warm snuggly laps to sleep on

and a endless supply of treats.

you are missed and never forgotten.

The History in Migration

Thousands of years of exodus

with a climate change,

somehow they know when and where?

Ice flow

"Some say the world will end in fire,

others say in ice"

~Robert Frost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw

Winters Grip

With each  short day winters grip tightens

where once life thrived and spread

Is now so cold dark and dead

When later oak leaves danced upon a ripple past

Is now ice and snow that for months will last

I continue my watch of this small piece of life

and dream of the day when spring returns 

to this place... at last.

~JE Ted Gardner

These shots are taken at the same scene as the post "Adrift"

on November the 4th

Pinicola enucleator

Female Pine Grosbeaks

feeding on ornamental crab apples.

November New Moon

November winds exacerbate

October's dying breath,

With summer's life now ending

In such a chilling death.

But colours  spilling from the trees,

from every shrub and bush;

Does pale the essence of July,

And flowers vivid blush.

O, would that I could live my life

As April, May, and June

And lay myself down quietly

Beneath November's moon.

~Moses L. Hochstetler