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Cohan Fulford
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No dating/ investing West Central Alberta, Canada; Artist: painter, writer+ photos + video+ vlogging. youtube.com/@CohanMagazine plant nerd +gardener. Locally/personally oriented animist, pagan, mystic
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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · Mar 3
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I've spent more time working on videos lately (still haven't got them all linked here) but I have still taken tons of photos...lol
View behind the house. We had quite a few days of spectacular #frost
#Alberta #GetOutside #winter #CountryLiving #photography 📷🌿❄️
Frosted but still dark, a handful of spruce boughs dangle into each side of the image, mainly in the upper part. They belong to fairly large trees. Loosely framed by those shaded boughs, we see the upper parts of several poplar trees (mainly 2 in centre, with less of another, lower/farther back, to the right). They are so heavily frosted that you might almost think they had silver-white foliage, and are catching the late afternoon winter sun with a hint of gold. In places the grey-green trunks and near black branches show through, giving more emphasis to the silvery filigree. The sky behind is bluish, covered with thin fluffy clouds that seem not to be very far away.
January 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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The U.S.A. is now a rogue state. Remaining reasonable gov'ts need to work together to isolate the madness- all trade should be stopped. Forget tariffs, it's time for sanctions.
January 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Third video- still Dec 25, this time near sunset, with the golden glow coming through the frost and snow whitened trees, and me trudging around in the snow a bit! #winter #GetOutside #nature #Alberta #sunset 🌿📷❄️🎴
December 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Second video over the holidays, this one is frosty views from the acreage on the morning of the 25th. also on YouTube and Spectra if you prefer viewing there..
#holidays #winter #Alberta #frost #CountryLiving 📷🌿❄️
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Short video from late afternoon Dec 24- after I washed the floors + showered, before I started cooking! Around -21C/-6F snowing lightly but not windy so it wasn't bad. 1st of 3 shorts- next two will show pretty frost and light on Dec 25- stilll working on those! #holiday #snow #CountryLiving ❄️📷
December 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22/23 #LeafMother has been decorating! I hope anyone who celebrates in any way is having a beautiful season! For those who find this a difficult time of year, may you find #SolaceInNature and #friends online or in the flesh! #WinterSolstice #nature #Baltic #pagan #Latvian 📷🌿
A partly sunlit goldy green spruce branch reaches into the image from the right, against other blurred branches more sunlit gold against a backdrop of mostly lavendery shaded snowy woodland. The spruce needles shine where the sun hits them, holding a few bits of snow and some tiny circles of light where the camera lens has translated background glimmers. In the blurred background, several branches, twigs, saplings appear faintly against the snow along with several large tree trunks. The trunks are near silhouettes and appear as dark voids- almost like doorways, with muted shafts of sunlight touching the snow between them.
December 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22 #LeafMother is decorating! May those who celebrate have a beautiful season! I value the #WinterSolstice whereas #Christmas is a cultural time- treats, day off work, fun old music, imagery etc. #PaganSky #Latvian 🌿📷 #SeasonalRhythms
A single dry stem of an herbaceous native wild pea vine (Lathyrus ochroleucus) stands in a bit of sun against a blue-violet and whitish partly shadowed snowy background. One compound leaf with a handful of dry leaflets extends to the left. The leaflets are backlit pale gold, papery and crumpled a bit on places, with tiny marks and holes on the surface. Some smaller leaflets cling next to the upright stem, with even a small tendril preserved. The blurred background holds several round edged pale masses- clumps of snow looking like mounds of cotton batting, near white in the centres, blending to violet-blue in the shadows between. The camera lens has turned a number of glimmers of light into bright or faint circles in the background, and a few bits of reddish brown foliage fade into the shadows. A mid-pale violet plucked from the filter enhanced shadows forms a thin border and a lighter shade is used for the words Happy Holidays in a casual script font in lower left.
December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21 Weekend #commute fresh snow + wind left splendid drifts in roadside ditches. Images composed of 2 views 1 on top of the other. Hoping all northerners are having a beautiful mid-winter + a lovely mid-summer for southerners! #Solstice #SeasonalRhythms #Alberta #Canada 📷
Two landscape orientation photos have been put together, one on top of the other. The lower image is nearly abstract-a line of snow drift crosses left to right in a roadside ditch- flat on top coming to a sharp line in the centre then sloping gently down. Bits of short grass show through the snow on top and trees across the road cast vague blue shadows on the drift. The top image shows another roadside ditch. The blue shadow of the road to the left reaches the middle of the ditch, then a snowy bank rises with a complex pattern of drifts reaching from the flattish top along wavy, sharp, narrowing ridges, down to meet the shadow at the ditch's lowest point. The waves and ridges catch light and shadow from pure white to deep blue. Above the drifts is a wire and post fence backed by darkish dry grass/weeds then a lightly snowed crop field and farther still varied wintry wooded areas- a line that follows a property line with some nearly orange willows and scattered grey poplars. Farther back is native mixed woods. There is a border of a slightly faded orangey red, and lettering in a lighter version of the same colour says Have a Beautiful Winter.
December 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Watching #GardenersWorld (UK) on YouTube- lots of lovely stuff, but it is funny watching from #Alberta #Canada as they are talking about 'Winter' this and that and it all looks like mid-summer to me....lol The only outdoor gardening activity here in mid-winter is shovelling snow 😀🌱
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 posted on the #WinterSolstice where we celebrate the slow return of #Sun in the north, but we also ought to remember the importance of darkness which is at its strongest now: rest, soil, womb, rebirth. 2 images to emphasize the #duality #PaganSky #animist #Ragana #Saule
A single stem of a wild aster with dry red-brown leaves clinging to the stem and a poof of seed heads- some bare and starry, some still dressed in light fluffy seeds, and the whole broad cluster carries a bit of powder snow on the centre top. The background is snow, the lower half in sun with slight granular blue shadows, the top in dark blue shade- accentuating the duality of Solstice: light and dark. The edges are blurred and a white vignette applied to emphasize the brightening that follows the Winter Solstice. A pale gold colour has been picked up from the seed heads and used for a thin border around the image, and lettering that says Happy Solstice in loose script font. A single stem of a wild aster with dry red-brown leaves clinging to the stem and a poof of seed heads- some bare and starry, some still dressed in light fluffy seeds, and the whole broad cluster carries a bit of powder snow on the centre top. The background is snow, the lower half in sun with slight granular blue shadows, the top in dark blue shade- accentuating the duality of Solstice: light and dark. The edges are blurred and a black vignette applied to enhance the effect of shadow for the shortest day of the year, and remind that we must acknowledge/celebrate darkness= rest, soil, womb, rebirth. An orange reddish colour is picked up from the dry leaves and used for a thin border around the image and lettering in loose script that says Blessed Solstice.
December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 Sunset now is just before 4:30 p.m. as we near the #WinterSolstice Interestingly, today (these shots are from a couple of days ago) it seemed light still at 5- clear sky on the horizon and fresh white everywhere! #CelebrateTheDarkness #sunset #WinterSolstice #Alberta 📷🌿
Looking through an open woodland edge toward the sunset across an open pasture. We see a the trunks of a number of tall poplar trees, a couple of tall narow spruce with branches only up high, mostly out of sight, various small poplars and a couple of spruce and a bit denser growth off the right. We don't see the horizon clearly, but we can see a good part of the sky, which has areas of blue along with bands of cloud and some wispier bits- some of the cloud is blue-grey, but areas and the lighter higher bits catch pinky-golden light from the setting sun which is out of sight behind clouds on the horizon. Black vignette has been applied to the corners to emphasize the shadows of the approaching solstice.
December 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 From Monday when the snow was at times horizontal. Thankfully it didn't last long but now we head into some even colder weather for the weekend. Here's a little shed in the cattle pasture across the road, seen through blowing snow. #CountryLiving #weather #Alberta #Canada
A slightly zoomed view looking across the way into a pasture. It is snowing heavily and windy at the moment of the photo, and the zoom increases the effect. We see a very small shed with whitish walls and a snow covered peaked roof and is closely surrounded by a wire and post fence which has kept some tallish dry grass/weeds out of reach of summer cattle. A few metres farther out is another fence, with a couple of dark posts prominent in the mid-ground. Snowy ground (with a few bits of dry grass showing) and snow-filled sky are nearly indistinguishable. A slight film filter giving a faint violet hint has been applied, and edges are blurred and a white vignette effect used.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17 Snowy cold morning! Dumping snow around -16C/3F windchill of about -100 lol I wasn't out long- clearing the steps, putting wood in the fire + a few pics/video- freezing my gloved fingers ... Afternoon wind had settled and snow stopped
#selfie #winter #snow #Alberta #Canada
Head and shoulders view of an old white guy-me- standing outside in a snowstorm. My mouth is slightly upturned on one side- the closest I will get to a smile while I'm standing alone with a camera... I'm wearing a faded black hoody, hood up, and a faux wool hat with ear flaps underneath it. The coat is not fully zipped up and you can see another black sweater-like zipped .jacket and a bit of a light coloured shirt collar. Coat and hat are liberally dusted with small flakes of cold dry snow. The background is an overexposed view of spruce trees and bare poplars somewhat whited out by heavy falling snow. A slight filter has been applied giving a faint violet tint to clothing and background (not the face) and edges blurred and a white vignette applied. The words 'Have a Beautiful Season' in a pale violet script appear on the top of the image.
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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In yesterday's grouse photo post, I mentioned I started work on a hard to cut fallen tree. I shot some video also- some full format stuff that is not yet edited, and a short showing the tree, site and the grouse nearby. (more videos on Youtube and Spectra, I don't get them all loaded here)
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16 Mild days to start the week then more snow + deep cold. So I started cutting a fallen tree I'd been avoiding: tricky to access +cut + heavy= rough work without a lot of progress! On the plus side there were some grouse nearby! #CountryLiving #weather #Alberta #birds 🌿📷
Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus A roughly chicken shaped bird, maybe half the size of a moderate sized chicken (less?). It is perched on a low bit of mossy stump no more than a couple of inches/handful of cm high. The bird faces away from us, but has turned its head halfway so we see its face in profile. It has a crest on the top of its head, but only slightly lifted. Its plumage is a vibrant and complexly patterned mix of dots and bands and splashes of reddish, greyish and dark browns, white and near/black. The background is a mostly shaded area below trees with faded fallen leaves and twigs in grey and brown. A bit of film filter has been applied to enhance constrast and add a faint violet atmospheric effect. The edges have been blurred and a white vignette applied.
December 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15 from the weekend #commute Saturday- still chilly in the morning (around -16C/3F) but a bit warmer later (-10C/14F by the I was outside doing garbage at work in early evening...lol) #Alberta #winter #landscape #photography #CountryLiving
Looking out the passenger side of the moving car. An area of cropped coarse clumpy golden grass in snow gives way to a smoother snowy field with an open patch of coarse dark low remnants of?- cropped thistle? then more smooth snow a fence of white horizontal boards on posts in front of a barn. The barn is strong red, rather freshly painted, with white trim and snowy roof. A largish spruce tree to the left partly obscures a whitish metal machine shed (or similar) behind, and we also see a round metal granary, tall metal fuel storage tanks, small red sheds and a line of bare poplars in the background. The sky is blue-grey cloud. A couple of film effects have been applied, giving a faint violet tone, also a warmer zone in the middle of the image, and the edges have been blurred and a white vignette applied.
December 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 I dug back again for these images- this time late September- yet these berries seem tailor made for the winter festive season! This is a late spring flowering plant but berries fully ripen rather late in autumn #nature #wildflowers #NativePlants #BorealForest #Alberta 📷🌿
Close view of a small plant on the forest floor (Maianthemum canadense Canada Mayflower). Several papery dry pinky gold spear tip shaped leaves clasp a single short stem. The leaves have many fine veins running lengthwise, giving them an almost pleated appearance. The stem is pale gold, tipped with a number of tiny spikes that would have held flowers in spring, which were not fertilised. The small handful that were pollinated have now produced shiny bright red juicy berries (which are edible- very sweet, but also bitter a fun nibble, probably wouldn't be a great idea to eat too many). The background is a blur of dried leaves, spruce cones and scales and one autumn gold leaf. A faint violet film effect has been used and edges are blurred with a white vignette applied.
December 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13 Still cold this morning but the temperature is slowly rising. Next couple of days look positively balmy by seasonal standards, more snow + more cold days mid-week. Dusk yesterday -20C/-4F with snow falling #winter #weather #December #Alberta #CountryLiving 📷 #landscape
Looking across a snowy pasture, only the foreground (except edge) is sharp, the farther away we move in the scene the more snow blurred it becomes, with sky and snowy ground similarly dusky white and the distant trees faded to light grey. The pasture is marked with clumps and patches and lines of dried grass, forbs and saplings that stick up through the snow, mid-way across is a sparse stand of bare poplars, no more than a dozen smallish trees. Farther back, more snow and dusk dimmed pasture and stands of wintry trees. A filter has been applied which increases contrast a bit, adding a faint tint of violet, and a blur and white vignette has been applied to edges.
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 A nippy afternoon yesterday high of -20C/-4F at the most, with some notable windchill. I did a bit of work outside and got a few photos. Another cold day today, bit warmer tomorrow, mild early week then another cold spell. #winter #Alberta #Canada #weather #SkySky
Looking up at fluffy white clouds with some gaps of blue sky between. In the lower centre we see the top of large spruce tree intergrown with a poplar tree, winterbare and mostly silhouetted against the light sky. The image has a slight violet effect and the edges have been blurred and a white vignette applied.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 Not exactly warm but yesterday was a bit milder, so I spent more time outside- cut wood cut + took a few photos + video- of course I missed the early sun...lol Today much colder + snow #Alberta #animals #winter #PaganSky
A grey-brown squirrel with a reddish hint on its back and reddish fluffy tail (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus American Red Squirrel) sits on a small bit of stump dusted with snow and littered with the spruce scales left from its meals of spruce seeds. On either side of its perch large tree trunks rise- a spruce to left and poplar to right. Behind the squirrel is out of focus forest floor, snow covered with saplings and bits of dry red-brown vegetation protruding. There's a faint violet tint applied and the edges are blurred with a black vignette applied to accentuate the shadows of the season even as snow and frost whiten everything.
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10 Cold days coming so I've been trying to get more wood cut! That means few photos taken-also gloomy/not too visually exciting the last few afternoons.. Better light today but still wood to cut! Caught this frosty grass at dusk #Alberta #weather #CountryLiving #winter 🌿📷
Dusk lighting has been slightly enhanced with a faint violet tint. A single grass stem arcs gently from lower right to mid left, the seeds dangling and echoing the arc. Only hints of the dry grass show through, it is almost completely coated in short grainy frost crystals. The background is a blur of snow and more grass with some dark shadows. The edges have been blurred further and a black vignette effect applied to accentuate the setting sun.
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 09 I like to use current photos but yesterday no photos happened (!) So! as we approach Winter Solstice, views from near the opposite Solstice. Dark shadows are a reminder of the eternal need to balance Light + Dark #animist #PaganSky #summer #Bloomscrolling #NativePlants 🌿📷
A shaft of sunlight makes its way through the trees above and lights a violet plant on the forest floor. In the centre of the image is a single aymmetrical mostly white (barely pink tone) flower. There are two upper petals pointing to the upper left corner, one points out to each side, and a single larger one at the bottom angled to the lower right corner which has red-violet guidelines leading pollinators to the golden centre of the flower. The flower sits at the top of a stem above a couple of reduced elongated heart shaped leaves and a single large one points to the upper left. The background is shadowed foliage, with the edges darkened and blurred to enhance the already dark shadows, while the green -gold of leaves has been intensified emphasising the idea that the height of summer still holds darkness even while Sun is at peak.
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 08 more views from the #commute yesterday. Today begins several more days cutting firewood on the acreage ahead of some cold days (below -20C daytime) later in the week! time to #GetOutside #Alberta #CountryLiving #landscape #photography #weather #mountains 📷🌿
Zoomed view looking from the moving car across a glimpse of snowy ditch bordered by a wire and post fence, then a snowy harvested grain field with low golden straw stubble showing through. On the other side a not very deep line of bare poplar trees follows a fence-line from left to right across the image. Further still we get slight glimpses of other fields, other stands of mixed woods with a few dark spruce, then the land slopes down away into the distance with forest that stretches to the blue foothills in the distance. Beyond those we see a little of the snow topped mountains, with a foggy overcast partly obscuring the peaks. The edges of the image are blurred and a white vignette effect has been applied.
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 07 views from yesterday's #commute after several recent moderate snowfalls and ice fog overnight. #frost #snow #winter #weather #Alberta #photography #BorealForest
Looking out the side window of the moving vehicle, across a snowy pasture with bits of dry grass showing through in places. Less than halfway across is a dark post and wire fence then another white stretch. On the other side we can just see another fence at the edge of a dense mixed wood of bare poplars and spruce. The trees are variably covered in frost (from ice fog) and snow with dark boughs showing through in places and some dark shadows between the trees, but the overall effect, especially the front trees, is of white trees. The sky is a soft blue and a white vignette effect has been applied to the edges of the image.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 06 Yesterday was overcast, a bit of snow + ice fog left trees slightly frosted (hoping for white views today!) Late afternoon light made the photos look rather abstract, my permission to play around a bit more! (see alt). #Alberta #BorealForest #trees #frost #winter 📷🌿
Looking up at several trees- an aspencomes from lower right and angles up into the centre with a pale trunk with black markings where branches emerge or once did; at the top it has a tangle of bare branches and fine twigs, outlined against the featureless whitish sky. To the right we see part of another poplar, smaller and dead with no fine twigs. Behind and to the left, not reaching as high as the aspen, we see the upper 2/3 of a large spruce tree, dark but frost lightened. I've applied some 'light leak' filters which have added random faint blobs and zones of colour, some reddish some blue-green-which kind of hint at holiday lights. The corners have a dark vignette effect applied.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM