The Monday Bouquet: September 15
Month: September 2014
Travel theme: Noise
Sudden summer wind…
Grasses dance and ripple with
Waves of sight and sound.
This brief film is of the fields behind The Maltings, Ely, Cambridgeshire in England.
The sound of the wind blowing through the rushes is for this week’s travel theme from Ailsa: Noise.
Health for Humanity
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With Nicole’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity, I would like to showcase the wonderful volunteer work of colleagues of mine. Health for Humanity is a registered, charitable organization based in British Columbia, Canada. They undertook their first surgical mission to Guatemala in 2002, and have provided access to needed surgical care to more than 1500 men, women and children in Guatemala and the Philippines. Visit their website and learn more about their inspiring humanitarian work. The video was directed and produced by Ashli Akins and we have been invited to share it with our friends.
Waiting for the Aurora
…but found the Great Bear.
The Aurora Borealis was forecast to be seen over Metro Vancouver tonight. It’s now 2:30 in the morning and I think I’ll call it a night and be happy with the Great Bear, seen in a beautiful night sky, a sky that has linked our humanity since the beginning of time.
Lost and Found
Humanity Lost
The emotion felt at the Holocaust Memorial and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Humanity Found
The emotion felt because of the very existence of the Memorial and the Museum in Berlin.
Nicole, whose blog Thirdeyemom teaches us so much about our world through her eyes, has challenged us this week to express through photography “Humanity”. Nicole’s images and words should be seen and read by all, for they are always inspirational. Thank you Nicole.
Cabin Fever
…or the further Adventures of The Red Cyclist in the Adventure Zone
Silhouette Encore
Encore silhouettes from another glorious English Bay sunset tonight.
Adventure Zone
The Monday Bouquet: September 8
A memorable harvest dinner celebration this weekend at the wonderful Blue Mountain Winery, Okanagan Falls, in Beautiful British Colombia.
Travel theme: Edge
Sailing up to the glacier’s edge in Glacier Bay, Alaska on the elegant SS Arcadia, proud member of the P & O fleet, sadly no longer with us.
Arcadia entered Glacier Bay on June 1st 1970 and was the largest ship ever to have sailed in these waters on this first Alaskan Cruise. Here is the entry in the diary I kept during that remarkable summer, a summer that still remains fresh in my memory:
“Monday 1st of June: The climax to the whole cruise – Glacier Bay. How to describe the beauty of this awe inspiring scene. We felt we had arrived at the end of the world. Nothing but these magnificent mountain peaks, the silence and us. Slowly we moved round the bay exploring its hidden most channels, gliding up to the glacial faces, blasting the ship’s horn in the hope that we might produce an icefall – with no result other than the echo reverberating about us for a full minute. We saw seals playfully swimming beside us. I think there was no one who wasn’t moved by the sight. The sheer unexplored natural beauty that surrounded us is something we shall never forget.”
A little technical information about the images, which are from the Kodachrome slides I took using my first SLR camera, a Pentax Spotmatic. The slides, and there are many of them, remain as pristine today as the day they were developed in 1970. I scanned them into my laptop using an Epson Perfection V700 Photo Scanner and then processed them using Photoshop Elements.
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