Mary Abma: Artist
Mary Abma is an artist who lives in Bright's Grove, Ontario. All works on this page are protected b
02/11/2023
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22/10/2023
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14/10/2023
New blog post!
Reunited John has arrived! Along with him came the bad weather. Ever since he got here on Thursday evening, it has been raining and miserable. Still,...
12/10/2023
New blog post!
Winding Down Where did the time go? Sunday, I will be leaving this beautiful place. Today, the sun came out in the afternoon and everything turned magica...
09/10/2023
08/10/2023
New blog post. Check it out for gorgeous photos!
The Most Beautiful Commute Gros Morne is a big park. I often need to travel outside of Woody Point to do my work. One of the places I go to fairly frequently is Rocky ...
07/10/2023
Latest Blog Post
Sounds and a Sunrise Sounds I have shared a lot of beautiful photographs, but the other senses provide entry points into the environment here. I can't really sha...
06/10/2023
Latest blog post.
Exploring the Seashore with Students I have stated on a number of occasions that my approach to viewing and interacting with the 'natural' world is to do so with the wonder of a...
06/10/2023
Was just sitting down to do a blog post about this experience and found this! It was great fun working with the students at Bonne Bay Academy!
04/10/2023
Today's blog post.
The Shores of Woody Point I try to spend a lot of time at the shoreline, making lumens, taking photos, and most of all--observing. The tides here are not dramatic and...
02/10/2023
New blog post!
Another Beautiful Hike After spending time at Shallow Bay, we hiked some of the other trails at Cow Head. Once again, the geology was jaw-dropping. A lot of it was...
01/10/2023
New blog post!
The Northern Park Boundary Gros Morne National Park is 1,805 sq km (697 sq mi) in size. I have been here for a month and have only seen a small percentage of the park....
29/09/2023
Three cool things about tide pools! New blog post.
Tide Pools! Three Cool Things When I was in grade 6, I did a project about tide pools. I still have it. Ever since then, when I thought of tide pools, I imagined them cr...
28/09/2023
A Walk Through Time! New Blog Post
A Walk Through Deep Time Someone recently said to me, "I bet you wish you had studied geology", and I really do. There is so much to learn and I want to understand e...
27/09/2023
New Blog Post
Shaped by the Sea Everything here is shaped by the ocean. The rhythms of the tides, the subsistence provided by the sea life, the immediacy of storms and even...
26/09/2023
Latest blog post!
WooHoo Caribou! I am exactly halfway through my residency, now, and I have finally seen some caribou, moose, and foxes! All of them were spotted on the same...
25/09/2023
SHARK!
Got your attention? Check out my new blog post.
The Sharks of Bonne Bay First of all, I have a short video I had wanted to share yesterday but the internet wasn't cooperating. So I have it for you today. Click he...
24/09/2023
New blog post!
View from the Water One of the things that continues to amaze me is the kindness and generosity of the people I have met here. Bruce, who works for Parks Canada...
23/09/2023
New blog post!
This and That It might seem like I go on a new adventure every day, here. And I do have a lot of adventures and I see new things regularly. But occasional...
22/09/2023
My latest blog post--three more cool things!
Three Cool Things (Tablelands Edition) There are, of course, way more than three cool things about the Tablelands. But I'll start with three. Larch and Juniper larch juniper Okay...
21/09/2023
Check out my latest blog post!
Walking on Earth's Mantle One of the most well-known features of Gros Morne is the Tablelands. The landscape here is different from any other in the world. Here, the ...
20/09/2023
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Tuckamore!! Ever since arriving at Gros Morne, I have noticed the word, "tuckamore" occurring fairly often. For example, I bought some coffee from the ...
19/09/2023
Spectacular beauty!
Eastern Point Trail Sometimes there is a place that really defies description. Even the dozens of photographs I took cannot properly express the wild beauty of ...
18/09/2023
Forest Bathing Have you ever heard of forest bathing? (And no, it doesn't have to do with bathtubs or water.) We all know how much time spent in a forest f...
17/09/2023
New blog post!
Three Cool Things There are some things I can only categorize as "cool". These are things I have seen and learned that make me smile. I thought I would share ...
16/09/2023
Here is a blog post about my adventures at the Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station.
A Whale Interlude So much of what I do is focused on the small things, it was an unexpected joy for me to have had the opportunity to work with something that...
15/09/2023
My latest blog post: tidal flats!
Out on the Tidal Flats The coastline of Gros Morne is varied. To explore the inter-tidal zone here means heading out to different places where land meets water. T...
14/09/2023
In my latest post, I take a (very) close look at a remarkable organism that is easy to overlook.
Meet the bryozoans! One of the things that I like to do is to take the lens off of the large and majestic and turn it onto the tiny organisms that we rarely no...
12/09/2023
A New Horizon There have been many times I have been tempted to plunge my camera into the water to start exploring that expansive world. Well, not really...
11/09/2023
New post about shorelines, edges and what I am doing here!
Gros Morne Residency 2023 "The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water” (...
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10/09/2023
Today is a dreary day in Gros Morne so I thought I would write a short post about colour!
A Storied Palette It isn't just the non-human landscape here that is beautiful. There is a palette that marks human interaction with this place. Bright colour...
09/09/2023
New Blog Post!
Aching Beauty When I think about what to share, the first thing that comes to mind is the beauty of this place. I now understand what aching beauty is--th...
08/09/2023
Gros Morne Residency 2023 Art, science, joy and wonder in one of Canada's most beautiful and inspiring landscapes.
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