family is everything

2022 Review

January 1, 2023UncategorizedAfghanistan, crimes against humanity, family is everything, Happy New Year, Kitsilano, Kitsilano Beach, landscape photography, love, Pacific Spirit Park, Protest Art, Stand with Ukraine, Vancouver, war crimes, WomenLifeFreedomAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

2022 Look Back I

The joy of the luckiest and proudest parents and grandparents in the world celebrating with gratitude our love for our children and our beautiful, amazing and unbelievably talented grandchildren.

Wishing everyone a very Happy, Healthy and Joyful 2023

#FamilyIsEverything

Look Back II

Celebrating two special places that uplifted our spirits throughout the year, from a sunny Pacific Spirit Park to a very snowy Kitsilano.

Look Back III

These final images of the year are to honour its heroes and despise its villains as we stand with the brave people of Ukraine and Iran and with the girls and women of Afghanistan hoping that 2023 brings victory, peace, freedom and justice for them all.

Family Day

February 21, 2022UncategorizedBeautiful British Columbia, Esquimalt Lagoon, exploreBC, Family Day, family is everything, love, photography, wood sculpturesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Home today after a loving family visit on Vancouver Island where it was so good to be together again and where we all enjoyed a memorable visit to the Esquimalt Lagoon and these lovely driftwood sculptures on the beach that seemed to capture the spirit of this special Family Day Weekend perfectly.

Happy Family Day 🇨🇦

hope yours was merry

December 25, 2021Uncategorizedfamily is everything, Merry Xmas, xmas cardsAndrew Seal View all 6 comments

Merry Xmas dear family and friends, and special thanks to all our health care heroes who worked for us all today.

Thanks to my beautiful, artistic granddaughter for her lovely card.

Anniversary

August 28, 2021Uncategorizedfamily is everything, happy anniversary, love, memories, Pacific Spirit Park, photography, wedding anniversaryAndrew Seal View all 11 comments

From that beach in Tunisia all those years ago to the Sword Fern Trail in the Pacific Spirit Park, as we celebrate our 47th Wedding Anniversary today after a week of pure joy and love with all the family, and feeling like the luckiest parents and grandparents in all the world.

❤️❤️❤️

a special day

July 5, 2021UncategorizedArt, family is everything, happy anniversary, happy birthday, love, watercolorAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Happy Birthday to our grandson “Now we are two” and Happy Anniversary to the ones responsible “Now they are “seven”.

Love them all to bits ❤️

“now we are six”

June 28, 2021Uncategorizedfamily is everything, happy birthday, love, photographyAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

Happy Sixth Birthday to our beautiful granddaughter ❤️ So happy we could celebrate this special day with her now that we can finally travel here in the Province of British Columbia.

Father’s Day

June 20, 2021Uncategorizedevery child matters, family, family is everything, family photos, Father's DayAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Je n’ai pas une pipe.

Happy Father’s Day, as I remember my own father and grandfather, and say thank you to my amazing children and grandchildren for all their love on this special day.

My thoughts, as always, are of all those children who have no father to give their love to in this troubled world of ours, especially the nine year old boy who lost his whole family in the terrorist attack in Ontario earlier this month. He is very much in my thoughts today.

reunited at last

May 5, 2021Uncategorizeddigital art, family is everything, family separation, reunification, separationAndrew Seal Leave a comment

The reunions of Mino and his brother Erick with their mother Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe, and Bryan Chavez with his mother Sandra Ortiz, all separated so cruelly in the fall of 2017, are moments for which there are no words but simply feelings of joy and relief for them all.

So many more families must be reunited but these happy reunions are moments for celebration.

two special bouquets

May 2, 2021Art, UncategorizedArt, bouquet, family is everything, love, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

A little get well bouquet for my beautiful granddaughter whose leg is in a cast today. There’s no one braver and I love her to bits.❤️

And a second little bouquet for our other beautiful granddaughter whom I love just as much, after her first ballet recital today. What a star she is.⭐️❤️