“ . . . the heron lifts his long wings
leisurely and rows forward
into flight.”
––Mary Oliver: A Poem for the Blue Heron
November 13, 2018: Blue Flight
Phil Knight
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- December, 2018
- December 1, 2018: Winter Wear
- December 2, 2018: Sunrise above the snow line
- December 3, 2018: Driving into Winter
- December 4, 2018: Hanging by a Thread
- December 5, 2018: Surfing Breaking on Driftwood at Sunset
- December 6, 2018: Eyes on the Prize
- December 7, 2018: Cyan Distillation
- December 8, 2018: Jack is Back
- December 9, 2018: 11 Billion Miles Out There
- December 10, 2018: Art Reflects Industry
- December 11, 2018: Desert Sky
- December 12, 2018: Captive Abstract
- December 13, 2018: Seaside Survivors
- December 14, 2018: Clearing First Narrows
- December 15, 2018: Slow Waking Weekend Morning
- December 16, 2018: Santa Fe Romantic Interlude
- December 17, 2018: Orchid Calypso
- December 18, 2018: Once Upon a Time in America
- December 19, 2018: American Gothic, 2018
- December 20, 2018: Fall Farewell
- December 21, 2018: Solstice
- December 22, 2018: Naughty and Nice
- December 23, 2018: Music After Dark
- December 24, 2018: Dancing Visions of Sugar Plums
- December 25, 2018: Wishing you a Merry Christmas
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- December 27, 2018: Monsoon Month
- December 28, 2018: Noticing What is Always There
- December 29, 2018: Memories
- December 30, 2018: Calming Time
- December 31, 2018: Wonderful Memories, Happy 2019
- November, 2018
- November 1, 2018: November Reminds Me
- November 2, 2018: Intermodal Abstract
- November 3, 2018: Tipping Point
- November 4, 2018: Autumnal Tricolour
- November 5, 2018: Burning Zone
- November 6, 2018: Fall Colours
- November 7, 2018: Blue Congress
- November 8, 2018: Fish in the Air
- November 9, 2018: Musical Interlude
- November 10, 2018: Flashback: Fiji 2012
- November 11, 2018: Armistice Centenary
- November 12, 2018: Live with the grace that is free and natural
- November 13, 2018: Blue Flight
- November 14, 2018: Strangers on Ambleside Beach
- November 15, 2018: Feeding the World
- November 16, 2018: Light Passages
- November 17, 2018: Lunch Break
- November 18, 2018: Dew Drops on a Mottled Leaf
- November 19, 2018: Inner Harbour
- November 20, 2018: Fog at Sunset
- November 21, 2018: November Reflection
- November 22, 2018: Liberty’s Eternal Light
- November 23, 2018: Moss and Mask
- November 24, 2018: Kingfisher
- November 25, 2018: Still Afternoon
- November 26, 2018: November Flight
- November 27, 2018: Siwash Sunset
- November 28, 2018: Van Dusen Garden Art
- November 29, 2018: Two Lanes North
- November 30, 2018: November
- October, 2018
- October 1, 2018: Old White Bird Soaring Still
- October 2, 2018: Moving with Soul
- October 3, 2018: Silvery Suspension
- October 4, 2018: Soaring Vision
- October 5, 2018: Moody Morning
- October 6, 2018: Sustainable Engineering
- October 7, 2018: Temple of Equality
- October 8, 2018: Republic of Vanities
- October 9, 2018: All Quiet on the Western Front
- October 10, 2018: Jefferson on the Potomac
- October 11, 2018: Shadowed Enlightenment
- October 12, 2018: World Turned Upside Down
- October 13, 2018: Monumental Vision
- October 14, 2018: With Malice Toward None
- October 15, 2018: Wheel in the Middle of the Air
- October 16, 2018: Arched Olympian Infinity
- October 17, 2018: Long Island Ending
- October 18, 2018: Aphrodite’s Blue Sky
- October 19, 2018: Fulton House Fall Signature
- October 20, 2018: The Maple Leaf, Forever
- October 21, 2018: Cattleya Purpurata
- October 22, 2018: Monarch of the Republic
- October 23, 2018: Washington Blues
- October 24, 2018: Autumn Rose
- October 25, 2018: Abstract: Art in Architecture
- October 26, 2018: Child of the Republic
- October 27, 2018: Autumn Hydrangea Rainbow
- October 28, 2018: Paradise Lost
- October 29, 2018: Contemplation of Justice
- October 30, 2018: Driving into November
- October 31, 2018: Last of October
- September, 2018
- September 1, 2018: Oh, Happy Day
- September 2, 2018: Oh, Yeah!
- September 3, 2018: Optimism in Perilous Times
- September 4, 2018: A New Day
- September 5, 2018: Breakfast at Ambleside
- September 6, 2018: Morning Bloom
- September 7, 2018: Starry, Starry Night
- September 8, 2018: Day in the Mountains
- September 9, 2018: Nautical Convention
- September 10, 2018: Awe and Wonder
- September 11, 2018: Spacious Skies, Purple Mountain Majesties
- September 12, 2018: Blue Hour
- September 13, 2018: Man Walking with a Cane
- September 14, 2018: Minimally Past the Tracks
- September 15, 2018: Two Pink Feet
- September 16, 2018: Fall Creeping Toward the Coast
- September 17, 2018: Life Imitates Art Imitating Life
- September 18, 2018: Afternoon Fishing with his Dog
- September 19, 2018: The Inner Harbour
- September 20, 2018: Abstract: Two Windows
- September 21, 2018: Equinox: Walking into Fall
- September 22, 2018: Sail City Reflections
- September 23, 2018: Friendly Contemplation
- September 24, 2018: Waterweb
- September 25, 2018: Balancing Gravity’s Law
- September 26, 2018: Inner Beauty
- September 27, 2018: Forest Fungii
- September 28, 2018: Ghost Tree
- September 29, 2018: Still Some Beauty
- September 30, 2018: Forest Engineer
- August, 2018
- August 1, 2018: Good Morning, August
- August 2, 2018: Marina Morning
- August 3, 2018: Pollen Packing
- August 4, 2018: Sad, Fond Farewell
- August 5, 2018: Hawk Talk
- August 6, 2018: Architectural Abstract
- August 7, 2018: That Hat!
- August 8, 2018: In the Zone
- August 9, 2018: Confidence
- August 10, 2018: Flashback: Spirit of Glorious Summer
- August 11, 2018: Pastel Sunset
- August 12, 2018: Painting the Town
- August 13, 2018: Orange Trumpets
- August 14, 2018: Sausalito Blues
- August 15, 2018: Puzzling Places
- August 16, 2018: Abstract: Day at the Beach
- August 17, 2018: Rocking at Anchor
- August 18, 2018: Just Visiting
- August 19, 2018: Waiting for Wind
- August 20, 2018: The Champagne Rose
- August 21, 2018: Coal Harbour Blues
- August 22, 2018: Wisteria Sundowner
- August 23, 2018: Violet Anemone
- August 24, 2018: Indigo Mosaic
- August 25, 2018: The Cardinal of the Bloedel
- August 26, 2018: Beautiful Plumage!
- August 27, 2018: Flashback: The Grand Tour
- August 28, 2018: Hibiscus at Sunset
- August 29, 2018: Fishing Fleet at Steveston
- August 30, 2018: Gold Complexion Dimmed
- August 31, 2018: Aerial Water lily
- July, 2018
- July 1, 2018: Land of Blue, Unending Skies
- July 1, 2018: A Quarter Century, in the Wink of an Eye
- July 2, 2018: Canada 151
- July 3, 2018: Forest Cathedral
- July 4, 2018: Sweet Land of Liberty
- July 5, 2018: Sunlit Geranium
- July 6, 2018: Retrospective
- July 7, 2018: Art Room Abstract: Blue Butterfly
- July 8, 2018: When the Dog Bites
- July 9, 2018: The Colour of Light
- July 10, 2018: Pastel Sunset
- July 11, 2018: Sweet Summer Days
- July 12, 2018: Swimming at Sunset
- July 13, 2018: Jigsaw Possibility
- July 14, 2018: Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
- July 15, 2018: Up Close and Personal
- July 16, 2018: One Small Step, One Giant Leap
- July 17, 2018: Big Red
- July 18, 2018: Morning Flight
- July 19, 2018: Making His Own Shade
- July 20, 2018: Inverted Pyramid
- July 21, 2018: Evening in July
- July 22, 2018: Rapturous Shore
- July 23, 2018: Solitude
- July 24, 2018: Lost Lake Sunrise
- July 25, 2018: Daisy Lake
- July 26, 2018: Waiting for the Moon
- July 27, 2018: Summer’s Lease
- July 28, 2018: A Lily of a Day
- July 29, 2018: Playing Coy
- July 30, 2018: Summertime Dream
- July 31, 2018: Tricolour Afloat
- June, 2018
- June 1, 2018: Wings of the Wind
- June 2, 2018: Honeysuckle
- June 3, 2018: Abstract: Images of Earth and Sky
- June 4, 2018: Fairy Time
- June 5, 2018: A Moment of Sunlight
- June 6, 2018: Abstract: Daisy’s Dussel
- June 7, 2018: Ninety years, Without Slumbering
- June 8, 2018: Dances with Wind
- June 9, 2018: Sunset on the Salish Sea
- June 10, 2018: Every place I go, I’ll Think of You
- June 11, 2018: Big Easy
- June 12, 2018: Distance We Can’t Escape
- June 13, 2018: Light in the Eye
- June 14, 2018: Harmony of Art and Artiface
- June 15, 2018: Time to Shine
- June 16, 2018: Time's Arch
- June 17, 2018: Narcissa, 2018
- June 18, 2018: Answering its Compulsion to the Sea
- June 19, 2018: Sundown on the Palouse
- June 20, 2018: Diamond Lake Sunset
- June 21, 2018: Finch
- June 22, 2018: Solstice
- June 23, 2018: The Relic
- June 24, 2018: Crimson Evening
- June 25, 2018: Summer Solitude
- June 26, 2018: June is for Roses
- June 27, 2018: The Garden Guardian
- June 28, 2018: Bo Kaap Abstract
- June 29, 2018: The Smoke of My Own Breath
- June 30, 2018: And the moon is the only light we see
- May, 2018
- May 1, 2018: Coming Alive
- May 2, 2018: One Evening in Summer
- May 3, 2018: Sun on the City
- May 4, 2018: Nightfall
- May 5, 2018: Catching Light and Air at Evening
- May 6, 2018: Light on the Water
- May 7, 2018: Intensity
- May 8, 2018: Good Night, Josephine
- May 9, 2018: Sole Survivor
- May 10, 2018: Torrents
- May 11, 2018: Flutterby
- May 12, 2018: Blue Saturday in Sausalito
- May 13, 2018: Colour and Shadows of Bo Kapp
- May 14, 2018: Light’s Illusions
- May 15, 2018: Three Suspended Cyclists
- May 16, 2018: Urban Reflections
- May 17, 2018: Beauty in Decay
- May 18, 2018: Rolling Thunder
- May 19, 2018: Saturday Evening Seduction
- May 20, 2018: Afternoon Cruise
- May 21, 2018: Head in the Waterfall
- May 22, 2018: Coming Through Sunlight
- May 23, 2018: Feeding the lake with waters
- May 24, 2018: Herald of June
- May 25, 2018: Poppy Raider
- May 26, 2018: Dining Out in the Garden
- May 27, 2018: Midnight Above
- May 28, 2018: Watercolour Abstract
- May 29, 2018: Damsel Not Distressed
- May 30, 2018: Evening Below the Bridge
- May 31, 2018: Busy
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- April 1, 2018: Once Upon a Time in America
- April 2, 2018: Coming Through the Rye
- April 3, 2018: Now is the Winter of our Discontent
- April 4, 2018: Something to See
- April 5, 2018: Heartland
- April 6, 2018: Disappointment
- April 7, 2018: The Road West
- April 8, 2018: Waiting for Climate Change
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- April 12, 2018: Red/Black Penny Farthing
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- April 15, 2018: Challenge of Liberty
- April 16, 2018: The Game
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- April 27, 2018: Compulsion to the Sea
- April 28, 2018: Sundial Palm
- April 29, 2018: Pansied Waterdrops
- April 30, 2018: Hearts in the Garden
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- March 1, 2018: The Birdwatcher
- March 2, 2018: It Never Gets Old
- March 3, 2018: Acquainted with the Night
- March 4, 2018: Flight
- March 5, 2018: Four Ducks
- March 6, 2018: The Progress
- March 7, 2018: Alpenglow at Last Light
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- March 10, 2018: Seasons Past
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- March 12, 2018: On a Clear Day, you can see Forever
- March 13, 2018: The Seawalk at 8 PM
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- March 16, 2018: Blue Balance
- March 17, 2018: The Colour of Light
- March 18, 2018: Camelias: Our First Colour of Spring
- March 19, 2018: Working Harbour
- March 20, 2018: West into the Setting Sun
- March 21, 2018: In the Moment
- March 22, 2018: Proud Woody
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- March 24, 2018: Winter’s Final Fling
- March 25, 2018: Meander
- March 26, 2018: Flashback: Classic Porsche
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- March 28, 2018: Fountain of Light and Colour
- March 29, 2018: Flashback: 2017 Young Shakespeareans
- March 30, 2018: Seated Navajo Woman
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- February 2018 Photos
- February 1, 2018 Super Blue Blood Moon
- February 2, 2018 Architectural Abstract
- February 3, 2018: BC Junior Girls Hockey
- February 4, 2018: Winter Reflection on the Capilano Tidal Pool
- February 5, 2018: Raptor Curiosity
- February 6, 2018: Primula Blooming in Winter
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- February 14, 2018: Affection and Conversation
- February 15, 2018: Egrets, I’ve had a few . . .
- February 16, 2018: Still Life in the Garden
- February 17, 2018: Six
- February 18, 2018: Hummer arriving for lunch
- February 19, 2018: Runs Down the Road All Day
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- February 21, 2018: Artificial Rain
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- January 1, 2018/Farewell to 2017
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- January 15, 2018/ A Walk in the Woods
- January 16, 2018/ Great Blue Heron Afternoon Nap
- January 17, 2018/ Lovers on a Foggy Coast
- January 18, 2018/ Focus Stacking: Orchid on Black
- January 19, 2018/ Dry Dock Pier, North Vancouver
- January 20, 2018/ Welcome Eagles
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- January 22, 2018/ Red, White and Blue
- January 23, 2018/ Capilano River in Winter Flood
- January 24, 2018/ Edge of the Earth
- January 25, 2018/ Still Life: The Reading Corner
- January 26, 2018/ Still Raining, Waiting for Gravity
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