Flagged Pines and Cirrus Wood Print

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The wind shapes the clouds and the forests. This view could be identified as looking northwesterly even without the aid of a compass. The flagged white pines have learned to lean with the wind. There is nothing to be gained by fighting a force of nature. The cirrus clouds were banded with the wind as well. These clouds were part of the warm conveyor belt surging northeast toward the Parry Sound Archipelago. Some gravity waves were perpendicular to those southwesterly winds comprising the warm conveyor belt. A long deformation zone was also perpendicular to those winds with the col in the pattern further to the north. The sun was getting low and the forests were strongly backlit showing their dark sides. The granite rocks were smooth on this particular island as they sloped into the depths.

Tom Thomson and members of the Group of Seven painted in the area for a while around 1914.

I paint outside - nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you quickly realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving the environment better off for the future and all inhabitants... Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada for 35 years, Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte - you might want to see a tornado before you die... but not just before you die! He has farmed, raised bees, written books and articles, lectured and instructed...