Thoughts and prayers with those mourning a loss today.

Pastural, tranquil Haldimand countryside.  Earthy.  Autumnal.  Agricultural.  Rural.  Searching for words.

(For larger image, pls. click on photo. Taken Nov. 2. lbw.)

"When in 1841 William Henry Fox discovered how a photographic image could be attached permanently to paper, it seemed to many that the art of painting had been dealt a body blow from which it would never recover.  In fact, some painters were so convinced that their careers as artists were in danger that they began trying to paint with a photographic realism that they had never tried before..."

~ RURAL LIFE, Adrian Vincent, Bloomsbury Books, 1987.