07 - Silver Lake Reclaimed (5 x 7 in. Oil on canvas, framed)26 November finds me painting the view across a snow patched meadow that used to be the north half of Silver Lake in Port Dover, Ontario. The Misner Dam was lowered for safety reasons two years ago and since then the river has returned to its old channel along the east side of this exuberant meadow of Goldenrod, Asters, Purple Loosestrife, Nettles, and Vervain, with thickets of Willows and Honey Locust. I can only see the river channel as a dark