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Remembering The Battle of Vimy Ridge: April 9 -12, 1917

April 9, 2014Photo Essay, photography, UncategorizedBattle of Vimy Ridge, Canadian National Vimy Memorial, photography, postaday, Remembrance, The Canadian Corps, VimyAndrew Seal One comment

Commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday the 9th of April 1917. The battle continued until nightfall of the 12th of April when the Canadian Corps of four divisions gained firm control of the ridge. They suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. Four members of the Corps received Victoria Crosses for their actions during the battle:

Private William Johnstone Milne of the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion.
Lance-Sergeant Ellis Wellwood Sifton of the 18th (Western Ontarion) Battalion
Private John George Pattison of the 50th (Calgary) Battalion.
Captain Thain Wendell MacDowell of the 38th (Ottawa) Battalion.

To view more images of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial I invite you to visit my post for Remembrance Day last year.

The haunting Flowers of the Forest is played by Pipe Major Angus MacDonald of the Scots Guards who for several years was the personal piper to Her Majesty the Queen, and described as one of the finest bagpipe players in the world.

Lest we forget

Not At Home

Knot At Home

…I do hope you’re smiling 🙂

Weekly travel Theme: Misty

April 7, 2014Uncategorized, weekly travel themeMachu Picchu, Mountain Lodges of Peru, Peru, photography, postaday, travel, weekly travel themeAndrew Seal View all 15 comments

These misty images for Ailsa’s Weekly Travel Theme are from our trek to Machu Picchu in June last year. They seem to be the perfect complement to my submission to this week’s Photo Challenge: Threshold.

The six day trek with Mountain Lodges of Peru along the Salkantay Trail to reach Machu Picchu was filled with moments of great beauty, triumph and exhaustion all experienced each day in the ever-changing magnificent Peruvian landscape seen so hauntingly in these misty mountain scenes and reflections in the turquoise water of Lake Humantay.

If you would like to see more of our journey I invite you to follow our trek day by day by visiting the early posts on my blog last June. Happy Trekking 🙂

Market Day in Beaune the capital of Burgundy Wine country in France

Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life – Revisiting Vancouver 2010

March 31, 2014Uncategorized, Weekly Photo ChallengePhoto Essay, photography, postaday, Sarah McLachlan, Street Life, Vancouver 2010, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

…As promised, more of the colorful street life in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, from Sarah McLachlan carrying the Olympic Torch, to street hockey, to drumming on the newspaper boxes, to waiting for the lights to change, and always thousands in the streets celebrating day and night. Enjoy the ride!

A minor blogging celebration this week with over 200 fellow bloggers now following thechangingpalette. By way of a thankyou to you all I thought I would re-post, as a final submission to this weeks Weekly Photo Challenge, my most favored photo since I started blogging last May. It was taken early one summer’s evening from the Youth Hostel in Cortona, Italy and shows the bells of the Chiesa del Torreone reflected in our bedroom window with Lake Trasimeno seen shimmering in the distance; a moment of pure magic.

This is also a moment to reflect on all the encouragement, support and inspiration that is to be found in the blogosphere and to which you all contribute in your own brilliant and unique ways. Thanks again for making this journey such an enjoyable and enriching one.

Siena Pink

March 26, 2014Uncategorized, weekly travel themeDuomo di Siena, photography, postaday, Siena, travel, weekly travel themeAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

I thought I would stay in Siena for Ailsa’s Weekly Travel Theme: Pink to compliment my last submission to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections.

The pink marble is seen adorning the beautiful Duomo di Siena…

Look up to the stunning frescoed ceiling to see the graceful folds of the pink robe.

Here in my journal written on July 13th 1999 I describe all the wonders we visited on that glorious day.

One of the great memories and pleasures of visiting Siena is sitting in the afternoon sunshine on the warm stone of the Piazza del Campo enjoying the view of the magnificent Palazzo Pubblico reflected here in my wife’s sunglasses.

To learn more about Siena visit Magdalena’s wonderful site Just Visit Siena.

Knot at home.

Take the A Train and visit one of New York City’s gems, the museum and gardens of the Cloisters in Washington Heights, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.