Seeing / Being Canadian

I have too many contractor's quotes rolling around in my head, so today's post is just a short photo essay featuring Canadian art and Canadian art-adjacent images.

First up, Georgian Bay by me and Tom Thomson (we went to the McMichael Gallery for Bruce's birthday and came across North Star, which features dozens of Thomson's extraordinary, rapid, oil sketches of the great outdoors in the north).  

My Georgian Bay sunset, September 2022

Thomson's Georgian Bay Sunset, circa 1916

Next some shots from Oeno's Sculpture Garden at Huff Estates Winery, a destination in Prince Edward County since 2011. The site's about four acres and has 60+ sculptures by Canadian artists. The garden's full of thousands of perennials, plus groves of maples and poplars, a grapevine arbour, a herb garden, a water-filled quarry and a children’s play area.

Purple verbena and golden rod soldier beetle,
Oeno Sculpture Garden, Prince Edward County, 
13 August 2023

Head made of maple leaves, by Dale Dunning

In charge of the quarry:
a wary northern leopard frog.

Interacting with a sculpture.

Checking out the children's play area.
Photo by K. Macrow.

Thanks for reading!

Karen