Autumn in Ontario

I spent last week in Ontario, attending my brother’s wedding and visiting my family there. The colourful fall leaves were just starting when we arrived, but were near their peak at midweek when we took an excursion to Gatineau Park. With my new appreciation for trees, I spent a lot of time observing the fall […]

Thicket Installation

Thanks to some uncharacteristic planning on my part, the thicket was trivial to install: a hole at either end had been drilled and countersunk, and could still be found despite all the grass; the screws with which I’d tested the fit were still sitting on the layout. The backdrop was a conundrum until I remembered […]

All in the Family: the Thicket Backdrop

Behind the thicket, the sky currently comes all the way to the ground, or at least all the way to the strip of wood the supports the LED strip that washes the sky. Wanting the thicket to continue past the wall, I cast about for a more distant wood that I could paint onto the […]