The Sentinel — Framed Piece Silk Scarves the proportions not yet resolved

the proportions not yet resolved into adult form

A Brown Creeper works its way down a massive cedar trunk — the bird almost invisible against the deeply furrowed bark

remains in the Loates family archive

its long spurs evolved to exclude all but the longest bills

A Common Loon at the nest — the adult in full breeding plumage

The Sentinel — Framed Piece Silk Scarves the proportions not yet resolvedA lone White Pine on a Shield promontory the tree shaped by decades of prevailing wind, leaning slightly, the branches on the windward side stripped and dead while the leeward side still holds its dark green needles. This is the sentinel tree of the Canadian Shield: standing apart from the forest, shaped by exposure, enduring. Glen gave it the full complexity of a portrait subject the specific character of this particular pine, not a generic tree. The