11/25/09

and yet...

"and yet
...incomprehensibly to me...
you loved this land,
loved its emptiness
its hugeness
its open fatness
the exciting biting cold
the white snow in the sun that hurt your eyes
the forthright way the air attached to your cheekbones chins and fingers.

the merciless summer sun that made the train-tracks flash
and the air above the wheat fields shimmer purple
storm-clouds piled on the horizon trying to look like mountains."
-plainsong by nancy huston-

alberta/saskatchewan/manitoba spring 08

18 comments:

  1. beautiful images and I love that touching poem.

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  2. I love these photos - truly stunning. x

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  3. Absolutely gorgeous photos... so atmospheric.

    LOVELY lovely post.

    xxx

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  4. These photos and poem really set such a lovely and haunting tone! Thanks for such an inspiring post!

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  5. this is beautiful! i really love the photos!

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  6. these pictures are fantastically beautiful!

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  7. ha. as i was scrolling down i was thinking, "...this HAS to be alberta."
    and lo and behold, some of them are.
    and it ACTUALLY made me miss it. ha. who knew?
    the big scrolling skies, the quiet, the dusty hay bales...

    lovely snaps jan-ban!
    xoxo.

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  8. so glad that book turned out to be a good read! ah, the prairies. she really hit it spot on.

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  9. These are beautiful!! I loved your comment about your nephew - I bet he looked cute :)

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  10. oh & ps. i use picasa! it was the cheapest thing i could find haha!

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  11. typical prairie images - but so stunning. that poem made me cold.

    thanks for all your lovely comments on our blog.

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  12. janis, is this place real? cos these photos look like postcards. beautiful!

    S
    xx

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  13. oh hi! i found your blog through teddy loves lu, and i'm just saying hello :) your pictures are lovely.
    xo meg

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  14. These are really beautiful photos. I love the color, the feeling we got by looking at it.

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  15. janis, did you take these photos?! they're phenomenal!

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