Winter, Bailieboro

It has been a strange winter, the winter of 2023-24, here in Ontario, and elsewhere too, according to reports. Unseasonably mild, very little snow apart from the occasional dump - not unpleasant, in one sense, but not the kind of winter you relish, either. And the sub-text is deeply worrying - climate change is upon us, and we are not doing nearly enough about it.

The photographs in this series were taken during a recent visit to see our friends Chris and Paul on their farm outside Bailieboro, in rural Ontario, a couple of hours from Toronto. You can see the effects of an unseasonably warm winter. Where normally the snow at this time of the year would lie thick on the ground, piled up beside the roads, now it is thinly spread, with the bones of the earth showing through.

Making, though, for some wonderfully graphic images.