Hockley Valley Rock — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte the granite shore and mixed

the granite shore and mixed boreal forest reflected in the rain-smoothed water

A still beaver pond opens onto a horizon of wine-coloured hills

A chipmunk pauses on a moss-covered log

the deep blue berries clustering around them

The trout rises toward the intruder

Hockley Valley Rock — Gallery Canvas Canvas Finish:Matte the granite shore and mixedLooking through a stand of old Eastern White Cedars toward an autumn valley Hockley Valley in full October colour, red and orange maples visible through the cedar trunks, the blue hills of the Niagara Escarpment in the far distance. A split rail fence runs along the lower edge. This coloured pencil landscape captures the particular quality of Ontario autumn seen from elevation: the sheer volume of colour in every direction, more than any single