North Pond Mugs
Description: An aging couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, continue a tradition of spending each summer at their cottage on a lake called Golden Pond, in the far reaches of northern New England. Billy and Norman soon grow obsessed with catching Norman's fish rival, "Walter", which leads to the accidental destruction of the Thayers' motorboat in a rocky area called Purgatory Cove. Norman gets thrown overboard and suffers a head wound, and Billy dives in the water to save the old man. They are later rescued by Ethel and Charlie.
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: Boreal soul energy (true north). Canadian Shield wilderness (rocky). Woodland caribou spirit (elusive). Loon call echo (haunting). Beaver pond engineer (busy). Spruce and birch vibes (green). Group of Seven mood (painterly). Northern lights forest (glowing). Fireweed bloom (pink). True north boreal (home).
Description: I visited the Biltmore Estate just outside Asheville, North Carolina a few years ago, where on display, throughout the gardens and some in the house, was an extensive collection of Chihuly Glass. This image focuses on lovely, reed-like glass sculptures that sat in a pond near the house. The translucent light passing through the mauve sculptures gave them a radiance that was quite lovely.
Description: Puffy white clouds drift over a small lake this landscape photograph taken at James H. "Sloppy" Floyd State Park in the North Georgia mountains. The shores are lined with tall pine trees that taper down to a small dam that separates the upper and lower lakes. It's a beautiful late summer day in the Chattahoochee National Forest in the foothills of the Appalachians. This is photo I took while I was camping and fishing in early September of 2021. The weather was spectacular, though the fish weren't really biting...though I did catch one bass. I liked the way the dam served as a focal point for the scene. One thing that is unusual about this image though is that it's what I used to test out Topaz's Gigapixel AI (https://www.topa...
Description: One of my most fascinating encounters to date: a small co-ed flock of Hooded Mergansers put in a two-hour "cameo" appearance (and extended courtship displays) at Centennial Beach in early February 2015. For more than half an hour, I was totally entranced by the courtship displays of the four males as they attempted to entice the two females into noticing them with head raises, bobs, and frog-like croaking. The ladies, of course, were less than impressed. Photographed at Boundary Bay Regional Park, in Tsawwassen, BC, Canada.
