Sometimes you just have to stop the car and take it all in as we did on the road in Glen Canyon after visiting Antelope Canyon in Arizona in 2015.
Weekly Photo Challenge
What could be more meaningful on a day like today than the grace and beauty of
the magnificent dancers of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.
“Ambience has the power to uplift your mood,” writes Jeff Golenski in his introduction to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge.
On a clear, crisp Saturday yesterday, this was a rare site in Vancouver’s Vanier Park, which definitely uplifted our mood as we walked by in the afternoon sunshine. But to fully appreciate the joy of the scene the sounds that accompany it and heard in the following brief video will complete the picture.
Starts with C
Cookie Monster starts with C, being photobombed here by Grover, and not forgetting Bert and Ernie, all names that cannot help but make you smile. They certainly did for our beautiful granddaughter after Xmas.
“The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
from Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820
These hoarfrost covered leaves, resilient in our winter wonderland,
will soon be freed to welcome spring.
WPC: Resilient
In this week’s final Weekly Photo Challenge of the year Ben asks us to “share a photo of something that says “resilient” to you. It could be a local landmark that has survived through the decades …. or of a ritual or tradition that you (or people in your community) have successfully preserved. Show us something that has endured.”
What could be more fitting for this final day of the year than this photo from the Remembrance Day Ceremony around the “local landmark” of the Cenotaph in Victory Square here in Vancouver on November 11th this year. It is an event that has been respectfully preserved and attended by many, many thousands each year and is certainly something that has “endured,” as it has all over the world.
If you would like to see more images from this year’s ceremony and read a special story that I wrote about it, open drawer 21 of my New Year’s Eve Retrospecteave that I posted today. No, that is not a misspelling and the reference to the drawer will become quickly evident.
On yet another day of terror our sympathy and thoughts are with those killed and injured in Istanbul today to whom I would like to dedicate today’s post. We will all need to remain resilient in the year ahead.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Path
They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think this is one of them.
Taken by my daughter of me and my beautiful granddaughter walking along the Galloping Goose Trail here in Victoria says all I need to say about what the word Path means to me today.
a holiday travel advisory
Yesterday’s photo is a reminder to buckle up in anticipation and drive safely over the holidays, particularly if your passenger is a moose who has had one too many at the office party…
…which reminded me of one of Woody Allen’s classic stories from the sixties:
Happy Holidays
looking back to the year ahead
For this week’s Photo Challenge: New Horizon Krista asks us to “think ahead and show your work in a representative photo”. Since I have just received my 2017 calendar this week, which I had printed by Apple, it seemed the perfect way to respond to Krista’s challenge revisiting some of my paintings from 2016 as I look forward to the year ahead.
If you’re interested in purchasing a calendar let me know.
“welcome to my kingdom”
There’s no better way to relax than reading with our beautiful granddaughter.
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