Sunday, September 23, 2007
Beauty and Sadness
Canon EOS with EF 70/200 @ 90mm - f8 - 1/90sec - ISO 400 - +1stop
Beauty and Sadness was running through my mind on this morning that found me southwest of Calgary in Kananaskis Country near the head waters of the ElbowRiver. The part of my mind that recorded the beauty, had me listening to the silence ( once I got away from my truck ) with the sounds around me being muffled by the falling snow that covered the ground like a white blanket. Watching the woods fill up with snow was exhilarating knowing that the visitors of summer have gone and given these woods back to the wildlife such as these Whitetail Deer and other lesser known creatures of these mountains.
The part of my mind that recorded the sadness is the part of me that knows summer will become a distance memory as the earth tilts further away from the sun and remembering nature bursting with life and activity. Of warm days that brings a laid-back easiness to you. Of the summer plants that grew producing fruit for the birds to eat, and lets not forget the bears who are fattening up on Buffaloberries at this time of the year in preparation for their hibernation through the long winter ahead.
"Creatures afraid of heights would look at the South Face of Yamnuska and shiver. But to the Raven's End ravens it offered food, shelter, updrafts - all the necessities of life."
This raven sitting in this tree made me think of the book by author Ben Gadd - "RAVEN'S END" a book that transports you into the world of ravens.
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