Louella Lester – Seeing and learning while holding camera and pen between me and the world.
We had a warm spell in Winnipeg and a lot of snow melted, then we had a clipper come through with snow and strong winds. When things calmed down, I went wandering with my camera and it struck me that every tire tread mark in the snow is unique, just like snowflakes. The strong …
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I decided to take photos with my iPhone as I walked to writing group on Thursday evening. It’s that time of the year where the weather is all over the place, not sure if it wants to warmup for good or get cold again. So the ground was a bit icy and I had to …
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I’ve been working to meet a deadline to revise my book manuscript for the publisher’s editor, so I don’t have much time to be super creative for this week’s blog. Hmmm, maybe I’ll share some sky shots from about four or five years ago, what the heck! I live on the prairies where the sky …
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There’s something about fog, especially when it’s combined with trees north of Winnipeg in the middle of winter, that just makes everything better. I’m not a big fan of winter. I don’t like bitter north winds and the way they fog my glasses. I don’t like having to bundle up or the time it takes …
Two things that my mom loved were flowers and books. Mom passed away a few weeks ago, so I’m posting photos of some of her favourites. And a nest of robin’s eggs, just because she liked that, too. She always had pansies, seen in the feature photo above, in her yard. And marigolds. And peonies. …
I used to like squirrels. I wasn’t crazy about them, but they were okay. Until the Patio Incident happened (if you want to read the Patio Incident Story it’s down below the photos). After that, I couldn’t shake the hate, but recently I’ve been trying to give squirrels another chance. A couple of weeks ago, …
I keep things pretty low key at this time of the year—the holiday season—for a number of reasons. I could talk about commercialization or my lack of religion, etc., but it’s mainly because with all the hype we can forget that it’s not a happy time for many people. Throughout my teaching career I taught …
At first I didn’t take these types of photos on purpose. Without me realizing it, the featured photo above, of the beautiful ceiling in Wesley Hall at the University of Winnipeg, just happened to feature a burnt out light. But I liked this accident, a side benefit, if you will. The same thing happened again, …
It's a bit odd, because as I sit at the coffee shop writing this post about blobs of snow, on a rare break from helping my elderly parents this month, there is no snow on the ground. (Of course it has snowed again since I wrote this.) That early October snow, that resulted in these …
Things are pretty hectic for me right now, helping my elderly parents, so I’m going to keep the blog posts simple this month. These photos were taken right after the early snowstorm in October, in Winnipeg. When I started selecting and editing them they felt like paintings to me. Enjoy!
