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Been a while since I posted but I am still cycling and shooting local pics.

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A classic red barn and silo on a near horizon just west of an old farmhouse nestled in a copse of trees. The foreground is a field of golden stubble bordered by sky left and top and a row of maples wearing every colour from summer green to fire of Hades red and orange. The sky is American midwest/World War II silk stockings a soldier gave to a French girl blue - gently textured and delicate as a robin's egg.

A stark Skeletor-like leafless tree stands like an inverted granite lightning bolt before a wide open Montana-like sky over gold fields either side of a lonely gravel road. It is sunny, dry and cool out this late October day, but also unusually warm.

Fluffy grasses gone to seed by the roadside tilt left in a gentle breeze as we whizz home just west of St. Pauls near the centre of southwest Ontario. The sky is pale blue with streaks of cirrus.

Nearly home, we enter town from the southwest and just passing the Jobsite brewpub, we find this lovely view down the main CNR line toward the station whose roots reach back to the 1830's. Some Halloween decos (a ghost-sheeted skeleton minding a skeleton dog) sit on the lawn of a period Ontario cottage painted to match today's sky - see related pics in this post. The road and the tracks diverging and converging in the foreground help lead the eye around the whole image. Clearly, it’s a lovely fall day and we've had a fantastic little ride out there in the barren wilderness of local farmland.

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