The bog, when frozen, opens up. Its interior becomes visible, its skeletal system, clear. Water that normally runs for one day and disappears the next freezes, yet the movement of the water is traced in its odd shapes and layers of frozen surfaces. Some plants are frozen inside the ice, like bugs in amber. Their colour remains bright and life like. Most of it will thaw and just go on with what it was doing before the sudden freeze. Birds fill the lower branches of the bushes and brambles, searching for seeds. They call back and forth. I don’t know if they are sharing what they found or warning others to stay away. The low winter sun casts shadows which in the spring are never disappear. It reminds you that we are moving, not the sun. We’ve got it all wrong.
The Rock Along the Pathway
A large rock along a pathway by the river, how much of it there is unseen, I don’t know. Usually it is covered with kids, as we are still close to the parking lot for the trailhead.
Desert Turnaround
Driving through the desert in Arizona there are these places where several paths and roads seem to come together. Usually very deserted their is a sense that something has gone on here, but we just won’t ever know exactly what.
Ontario, Canada. Driving from Niagra Falls.
A walk in the woodlands near the university.
A pathway in the woods.
Beyond the Parking Lot. Northern Washington State.
A Full Yard is from a series of homes in Vancouver, British Columbia by Vancouver artist Jim Roche.
House in British Columbia: A very full yard. Vancouver landscape and documentary photographer Jim Roche.
Read moreA seat in the garden, to watch the garden grow.
The Green Throne. Coquitlam, British Columbia.
All wrapped up at the end of the season.
From a small public garden in British Columbia.