Local Environmen​tal Photograph​er of the Week - Diane Mascherin!

Hi all, every week, UTIES will showcase a local environmental photographer's, artist's, or poet's profile as well as a few photos, paintings, or poems by them on our Facebook page and Blog! This week's local photographer is Diane Mascherin!

Diane Mascherin is a designer, artist, poet and photographer and believes they all overlap in one way or another. She started writing poetry at a young age to help release those things inside that needed to find a way out. Art and photography soon followed. Diane loves walks in nature and taking photos of animals and trees. She also loves taking photos of abandoned buildings, old trains, tracks and worn out metal things. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” John Burroughs The many layers of nature as with photos, art and words inspire her creative self. As each day moves along, everything changes within and without – as it should. 

If you’d like to see more of her photos or art, please visit her website: http://www.dkmdesign.ca/photography.html

Diane also hosts a poetry open stage, if you’d like more info, click on the following link: http://www.torontorenaissanceconspiracy.ca/ 

Check out her photos on our Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/utiesbowtie

Thanks and have a great week!
- The UTIES Committee

where are you? 

the lure of big-box stores

productively buying what I don’t need

regretfully spending what I don’t have

sinfully inserting

colourful plastic cards

into almost anything

 I’m behind the walls

of the latest Smart Centre

write to me if you can

xo

A motherless baby robin ended up in our driveway one night. We took care of it, fed it worms, and after a week it believed I was the mother. It was easy to become attached and feel light-hearted each time it fearlessly approached me. Sadly, the robin didn’t make it ...it brought to mind a poem by Mary Oliver, here is an excerpt from In Blackwater Woods: 

 “To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.”