One of my current projects is to create abstract photographs of my hometown of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.

With abstract photographs, we try to reflect the mood or emotions or qualities of a place. Each Tuesday, I’ll present a new image from the project.
 

 
We moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake in the dead of winter, about two and a half years ago. The first theme that came up for me while photographing this new place was one of vines on walls. They’re everywhere.

We had just moved back to the area where both my husband and I were born, a place we hadn’t live in for over forty years! My mother’s maiden name was Vine.

This type of image is endlessly fascinating to me, for it shows how everything is interconnected. These are vines on a wall, with a pleasing red and silver theme going on, but they could also be a river system, arteries in the body, or veins on a leaf.

This is a place where there is a sense of history in the old buildings and where plant life is abundant. There is a deep connection to the past and the struggles that happened here – the war of 1812, a stop on the Underground Railroad, the first capital of Canada.

Vines (and all plants) grow easily here.
 

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