#2313 "Flagged Pines and Cirrus"

The wind shapes the clouds and the forests. This view could be identified as looking northwesterly even without the aid of a compass. The flagged white pines have learned to lean with the wind. There is nothing to be gained by fighting a force of nature. The cirrus clouds were banded with the wind as well. These clouds were part of the warm conveyor belt surging northeast toward the Parry Sound Archipelago. Some gravity waves were perpendicular to those southwesterly winds comprising the warm conveyor belt. A long deformation zone was also perpendicular to those winds with the col in the pattern further to the north. The sun was getting low and the forests were strongly backlit showing their dark sides. The granite rocks were smooth on this particular island as they sloped into the depths.

Tom Thomson and members of the Group of Seven painted in the area for a while around 1914.

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