Granite Beach Boulders
Awenda Provincial Park, Ontario - 2006

The beaches at Awenda are littered with thousands of softly rounded boulders such as these ranging in size from pebbles up to a single car garage. The constant action of wind, water and ice have dragged these boulders from the bottom of Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) and cast them on this shore. It's possible that the boulders in this image were deposited here tens of thousands of years ago, and may have once been a single boulder split into pieces by ice and erosion.

When I look at this image I see a singular moment in the immense passage of time. The sands that surround these rocks were once rocks themselves, and with each passing day these granite boulders are slowly but relentlessly turned into sand. How long would it take for a boulder become sand? We will never know. Human beings may not have walked this shore when these rocks were deposited there; and humans may be long gone by the time they cease to exist and become one with the sand patterns created by waves and water washing over them.