Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet

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Leafy shadows beneath our feet today taking our beautiful granddaughter, now six weeks old, on her first stroller outing along the Galloping Goose Trail.

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Studio 365: Day 215

Day 215

Pacific Spirit Canopy 3.8.15

Inspiration today from our early morning walk in Vancouver’s beautiful Pacific Spirit Park.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inspiration

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There is nothing more inspiring at the moment than seeing
our daughter holding her beautiful little girl.

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        “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”                                                                                                 Dr Albert Schweitzer

For this week’s Photo Challenge: Close Up

Both sides now…

Wall Centre

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all.

Joni Mitchell 1967

I took this photo with my iPhone a few weeks ago looking up at the Wall Centre here in Vancouver. The words of Joni Mitchell’s song, Both Sides Now from her album Clouds, instantly came to my mind and a moment of warm reverie came over me as I looked up at the clouds and remembered hearing her voice for the first time in 1969.  I was driving my old yellow Triumph TR2 down the Old Kent Road in London, and as she started singing on the car radio I had to pull over to listen to the rest of the song, a magical moment frozen in time and one which has remained with me ever since.

Ben’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half has given me the perfect opportunity to share the photo and to listen to the unforgettable voice of Joni Mitchell singing one of her greatest songs once again. Thanks Ben

Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half

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Cypress Alleyway Half and Half

Half photograph, half painting of Cypress Alleyway, Castello di Reschia in Umbria, Italy.

Reschio   Cypress Alleway

The original photo and painting

You can see how the painting was developed from a charcoal sketch to the finished work here in a previous Weekly Photo Challenge:Layers, which I also titled Birth of a Painting, in November 2013.

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Can there be a more perfect symbol of love, joy, trust and hope than the grasp of the little hand of our beautiful granddaughter who is two weeks old today.

Although I posted this photo the day after she was born, I hope you agree that this close up is worth the re-post in response to Jen’s invitations for this Week’s Photo Challenge, to “…share a symbol with us, and tell us what it means to you.”