“The final sunny fall day before the snow arrives and the lake pulses in anticipation, as if aware of the coming change, filling the bay with echoes of its life” – Ed Lehming

This image was made yesterday. The forecasts called for snow today and I wanted one final day among the remaining colours of autumn. Many of the leaves had already fallen but pockets of colour remained along this point. Copper-tones oaks and a few sugar maples still held their leaves.

The inevitable outcome of early season snows is that the last leaves finally get pulled down by the weight of wet snow, and the feel of winter finally takes hold.

I’m truly blessed to live in a region with forests and lakeshore and this particular area has become on eof my favourite places to hike, make photos’ and just relax.

I’ve spent many years in the area around my old home hiking the vast tracts of forests and had little exposure to lakeshores, especially one as vast as Lake Ontario. Just as I became aware of the pulse and life of the forests, I’m beginning to understand and appreciate that the same is true of bodies of water. As seasons change and weather systems roll across, the very character of the water changes in response.

As I looked across the bay, the waves formed to the shoreline creating what appeared to me as a “pulse”, thus the tile of this photo. It summed it all up in one word.

For those wondering, yes, the water really is this colour, enhanced by the deep blue autumn sky. There are days where it becomes bright emerald, ar and angry gray. But on this day, deep blue was the tone.

Far in the distance and sweeping to the right is Outlet Beach, as vast freshwater beach which is part of Ontario’s fames Sandbanks Provincial Park. The park also features a lot of flat, rocky limestone ledges, which are also visible in the image and I’m sure will be featured in future posts.

iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 24 mm
1/4900 sec, f/1.8, ISO 100