Winter Light

The first anniversary of the global pandemic finds Bill and I taking pictures of our beloved Toronto.

For the past few months we have been noticing winter light.

Here is a strong winter light at Queen and Spadina.

The strong winter light has been bouncing around in interesting ways

in Toronto's many unopen shops.

I was picking-up some take-out lunch at Mars Diner. The light seemed to hum.

Midday brings lovely diagonals. Queen Street West.

Kensington Market.

Queen West.

Sometimes winter light is colourless.

It is shadowless.

Flat light on Queen's Quay ice.

After a snowfall the air is heavy with moisture

creating a different winter light.

still without shadows but the colours have poured back in.

This is the rich winter light.

Some winter light is playful.

The more closely I look at these shadows, on a wall in the Music Garden, the less I understand them.

We'll leave you with a memory of Greg Couillard's homemade marmalade in the last of the winter light.