Apri mera ke ya mas, Oxbow Saskatchewan Nov 19 2011

 Vivaldi.. Winter: Largo.. Hanover Chamber Orchestra

Agnes Baltsa.. Aspri mera ke ya mas

Winter in the Prairie , Oxbow Saskatchewan Nov 19 2011

Wind-chiill temperature was below -28 Celsius
when I just drove down to the middle of the Prairie.

Those were a couple of trees over the horizon which caught my sight.
As I kept watching them for a while
I couldn't feel any loneliness nor bleakness..
though they were there in the middle of the vast wilderness.

They were just standing still and undauntedly..


체감 온도 영하 28도..
눈내린 겨울 들판이 보고 싶어 잠시 드라이브에 나섰습니다.

가장 먼저 제 눈을 사로잡은 것은
지평선 위에 늠름하게 서 있는 나무 두어 그루 였습니다.


전혀 고독하거나 황량하게 느껴지지 않았지요.
아주 의연하고 씩씩한 모습이었습니다.

모진 바람과 모든것이 얼어붙는 극심한 상황속에서
나무는 가지를 활짝 펼친채 말없이 이겨내고 있었습니다.

나무를 보면서 생각했습니다.
내년 봄에 나올 찬란한 새싹과 여름 내내 풍성할 그 아름다운 잎새들을..



Vivaldi..Four Seasons : Winter

나무를 보면 항상프랙탈 패턴(fractal pattern)이 떠오릅니다.
우주적 디자인 이라고나 할까요.

수정이나 눈 송이등의 미시적 세계에서부터
해안선의 모양이나, 구름.. 혹은 이러한 나무들의 가지가 분할되어 나가는 것등
시간의 흐름에 따라 일견 무작위적으로(randomly) 진행되어 가는 듯한 자연의 모습이
사실은 수학적으로 잘 정의될 수 있는 단순 기하학적 형태의 끊임없는 반복을 이룹니다..

언제까지나 저렇게 뒹굴고 있으면서
결국 화석이 되어버릴것 같은 건초 더미들(Hay Rolls)..

반쯤 눈이 덮힌 모습이 오히려 정겹고 따스하게 느껴지는 군요..

한때 농장에서 요긴하게 쓰였을듯한 한채의 집..
이제는 지붕이 파도처럼 넘실거릴 정도가 되었습니다.

하지만 언젠가는 찾아올 주인을 기다리며
자신이 서 있어야할 바로 그 자리에 오늘도 서 있습니다.

Faculty House of Theology.., Toronto Feb 16 2011

Campus under the full moon, U of Toronto Dec 20 2010

Chapman Stick - Heartstrings - Pachelbel's Canon in D


There was a full moon casting its white pale light over the beautiful campus.

I really like to stroll around the campus in the night watching the trees and old buildings
under the moon light as well as with the artificial lights on the ground.

pachabel - canon in d (flute & piano)

Snow storm on my way back home, 205km to Toronto HW 402 E Ontario Dec 5 2010

It was awesome..!!
Area of London, Ontario forms wide snow belt in this season and I was just passing amid the seasonal festivity.. amazing.. :p.

It reminded me of the scenes of Doctor Zhivago.

He was trying hard to look outside
by opening a tiny wooden window of the freight car
of the train for the refugees to Siberia.
Outside was all covered by snow and
was glowing serenely under the moon light.
He was being  more & more admired and fascinated
by the beautiful landscape of holiness & gaveness
while the other refugees was shouting at him
to close the window immediately.. because it was too cold..

still 205 km left for Toronto.. oh my.. :p

삶 blown away like dust.., Wolfrey and Broadview Toronto Nov 19 2009

still managed to be part of the mother tree
the leaves had been hardly shattered by the stormy wind
during the whole night..

all of a sudden , one leave was blown away into the darkness
then, two, three... countless..
leaves were being scattered away in every other directions..
getting back to where they'd come from..
like dust in the wind..

so do i will.. sooner or later..
.. under the sheath of time..

제 어미 나무에 겨우 겨우 붙어있었던 나뭇닢들이
늦은 밤 내내 태풍같은 바람에 세차게 흔들리고 있었다.

그러다 한닢이 바람에 날려 어두움 속으로 살아지고..
그리곤, 다음 잎, 다음 잎..
셀 수 없는 잎들이 사방으로 흩어져
그들이 왔던 곳으로 돌아갔다..
마치 먼지처럼..

조만간 나 역시 세월에 칼날 앞에..
그렇게 먼지처럼 스러져 갈것을..

滿秋 Teeing Up into the rich cloudy fall, Don Valley Golf Club Yonge Street-401 HW Toronto Oct 21 2009

It took only 3 and half hours for 18 holes
carrying my own carry-on bag on my shoulders.
We finished 12:26pm after teeing up at 8:56am.
Amazingly speedy game!!

Jim, Fong and George.. it was a good game guys!

After the game, I tried three bottles of Sapporo with Jim.
Drinking beer with a good friend after the play
is my one of my good reason to play golf.

walking barefooted.. , Westview Golf Club Vandorf-Leslie Ontario Sep 6 2009

My lovely place for
walking barefooted on the fairway
with golf shoes on hand
while waiting for the other buddies to come up..

enjoying taking a fresh oxygen shower
rambling across the woods
following the exact trajectory of my ball with driver..

and being fascinated by all the rainbow colors of
maple leaves in the autumn..


Andrea Bocelli & Giorgia : Vivo per lei

Andrea Bocelli : Romanza