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From "The first year of retirement"

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EARLY SPRING IN NOVA SCOTIA

Walter A. Aue, May 2001


I got carried away by those "alt" attributes from HTML, you say? By those little messages that pop up when you keep your arrow on an image for a second or so? Yes, I admit it. But thoughts will spring to mind. Especially in spring. So mousy on over and have a smile or a smirk...
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. Waves onto Cleveland Beach are more and longer than the camera can catch. But look through the part you see, and see the whole. Nature is holographic, not photographic. So, fortunately, are our minds.

Salt water

. The pond at Cleveland Beach, just a few steps away from salt water. Ocean or pond: their colors come off the same sky...

Fresh water

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. What's behind the spring curtain? Saltwater. St. Margaret's Bay, to be precise. Just a few steps away from our house. Enjoy, but don't look too closely: There's a power line cutting through all that beauty. Human lines are too often just power lines...

Curtain

. You would have to taste it to know the difference. But it is fresh water, all right. It is the old swimming hole at Lewis Lake Provincial Park. A square kilometer of Canadian freedom. (Nowadays closed from the middle of October to the middle of May.)

Buds dreaming

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. This reminds you of something? Sure. Except that the reflections off Lewis Lake in the spring are a bit different from those in the fall. As our perceptions of them are...

Reflections

. That could be anything, right. It just happens to be about a square meter of bubbling brook, in the deep woods behind our house. Water brown with natural detergents (humic acids), that is...

Spring suds

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. A little pool - hand-deep and but a step across - in selfsame bubbling brook

Pool

. The water slowly rotates in that pool. Without Mother Nature's suds you would never know. Yessiree, Mother Nature does use chemicals in her kitchen. Lots and lots of chemicals...

Whirl

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. It takes clear skies to make brown water blue. Did you know that they use the same trick on the "Blue Danube" in good old Vienna? Those charming Austrians always cheat... ... ...

Sky in the water

. Spring springs eternal, I suppose. Sure, trees are wise, they should know better. But they've got selfish genes, too. It's their genes that make them do it. Year after year after year....

Tree in the sky

. There's water in the sky, there's sky in the water. It's enough to give you the bends...

Bends

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. Yeah, it's just integrally challenged, vertically dichotomous granite. A piece of your own mind, reflected in Nature's imaginary mirror. Whenever you have a splitting headache, or suffer from multipersonality syndrome, or fear a god darkly...

Between a rock and an idol

. Horizontal stratification may be good for photography. But that brush in the foreground is fast going nowhere...

Dark shores

. Are you more secure in leaning on a rock? Or are you just casting a bigger shadow?

Lean-to

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. That wild apple tree grows right behind our house. We like the smell of the blossoms; the deer like the taste of the apples.

Early apple blossoms

. Photography is an inside affair...

Meditation

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