Yesterday’s variation of corps de palett(e) 2016

The Cenotaph, Victory Square, Vancouver
More than twenty thousand men, women and children standing in silence for two minutes at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month during the 91st Annual Remembrance Day Service in 2015.
Three photos from today’s walk for this week’s photo challenge: weathered
PHOTO CHALLENGE
“Evoke the excitement of entering a new year with a photo that shows growth.”
I can’t think of anything more perfect with which to respond to this first photo challenge of the year from Jen than these two photos of our beautiful granddaughter exactly one year apart enjoying Santa’s gifts on Xmas day.
Xmas Day 2016
Xmas Day 2017
Growth was also seen in our family in 2017 as we celebrated the birth of our second beautiful granddaughter in May who like her cousin gives her parents and grandparents nothing but pure joy.
Wishing everyone such joy and happiness in the year ahead.
The Gondolas study I – pen, brush and ink, matted and framed
With this last maturday of the year, and what is to be the final one of the series, here is a look back at all the others since I began posting them every Saturday since the end of February. Do you have any favourites? I know I do.
Wishing everyone a very happy, healthy and creative New Year.

Kitsilano in the snow #2, matted and framed
The evolution of this painting began a year ago after a heavy snowfall here in Vancouver, which I posted about in backdrop to a life: part 2. On January 8th it became my second painting of the year as you will have seen in my post second of the year.
Now, a year later and after my most recent post backdrop to a life revisited, it seemed time to get to work and put a mat and frame around it.