Spring Shadows

Well it may be spring on the calendar here in Alberta the only sign of that here is the strength in the light. Finally we are getting some real heat from the sun.

Shot east of Smoky Lake Alberta, the snow amongst the trees and the warm shadows here bring back memories of springtime spent trudging through the bush hauling pails of maple sap back to the sugar shack to be boiled down into maple syrup.






The old car below was abandoned in the farmyard above this stand of trees. Again, it was the play of the shadows that caught my eye. I want you to look at the car's shadow on the ground - what is odd about it. Maybe you are faster than me but after a few minutes I realized that someone had chopped the roof out of the car and that is why the shadow includes the complete window line; something you wouldn't normally see when the sun was so high in the sky.