Over the course of the 30+ years I’ve lived in Orillia, I’ve come to understand that what keeps “transplants” from the city living in Orillia is sometimes more than the unhurried pace of the life, the safer environment (not 100% safe – nowhere is, but certainly much safer than Toronto or other large city areas), the friendly people – sometimes it’s just the sheer beauty to be found here. If you take time to stop and look around you, there is beauty in the houses, the downtown buildings, even the highway areas are surrounded by nature.

Take time to have a look at some of my efforts to document the passing of days and years in this place I call home. (To see the larger image, click on the picture).

A single swan on Lake Simcoe – not far from the narrows bridge in an area where the marshy reeds grow tall.

The Stephen Leacock Boathouse on Lake Couchiching

Ice and Mist: the Port of Orillia, Lake Couchiching

Above prints and posters available from my gallery on Redbubble

Drama at Bass Lake – a dramatic cloudscape over Bass Lake, Oro-Medonte Twp.

Above print available from my gallery at ImageKind.