Pacific Spirit Park

Earth Day 2021

April 22, 2021photography, UncategorizedAmanda Gorman, children's art, Earth Day, Greta Thurnberg, Pacific Spirit Park, YouTubeAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than with these beautiful young ferns and lily of the valley leaves from the Pacific Spirit Park yesterday that remind us every day how precious and magnificent our world is.

Thank you also to all the children who honored the earth today with their beautiful painted rocks which we enjoyed on the Salish Trail in the Pacific Spirit Park this morning.

Thank you also to Greta Thunberg @gretathunberg who represented them and all of us speaking so eloquently and passionately to the US Congress today. And thank you to Amanda Gorman who has inspired us once again with her moving and beautiful poem Earthrise. The Earth could not have better champions who give us all such hope.

Oh Canada

April 16, 2021photography, UncategorizedImages of Canada, maple leaves, Pacific Spirit Park, SpringAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Oh Canada, they’re back; these beautiful young maple leaves illuminated by the morning sunshine in the Pacific Spirit Park yesterday. I hope they will lift your spirits as much as they did ours

spirit park easter spirit

April 4, 2021photography, UncategorizedEaster Sunday, landscape photography, Pacific Spirit Park, photographyAndrew Seal Leave a comment

A moving anonymous installation for Easter Sunday in the Pacific Spirit Park Vancouver, today as always an uplifting place of sanctuary and peace.

Good Friday

April 2, 2021Art, Uncategorizedabstraction, Art, Good Friday, landscape from the imagination, landscape painting, Pacific Spirit Park, watercolorAndrew Seal Leave a comment

A good Friday afternoon on Good Friday in the studio. Wishing everyone a happy and safe Easter weekend as our thoughts are once again of those in Washington on yet another sad day in the American capital.

Lynn Valley Strong

March 28, 2021Photo Essay, Uncategorizedlandscape photography, Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, Pacific Spirit Park, photography, sympathy, terrorismAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Moments of peace, tranquillity and joy from the Pacific Spirit Park last week to ease our troubled souls. Every day brings news of unimaginable horror, from young children and protesters murdered by troops in Myanmar, school children bombed in their schools in Syria, boys as young as nine beheaded in Mozambique, mass murder in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado; and now here at home terror in a library in North Vancouver with one person killed and six injured.

Today our thoughts are with the families of all those affected and with the community of Lynn Valley, especially the children who witnessed it all on what should have been a happy Saturday afternoon in their local library, and wishing those who have been injured a full recovery. 🇨🇦

grief seeking comfort

March 23, 2021photography, UncategorizedIf trees could speak, Images of Canada, Metro Vancouver, Pacific Spirit Park, photography, Regional parks, VancouverAndrew Seal Leave a comment

More words of wisdom and comfort from the Nature Trail in the Pacific Spirit Park today that seem to speak to these dark days.

With thanks once again to Metro Vancouver BC for their inspiring and uplifting project:

“If trees could speak.”

spirit found spirits lost

March 22, 2021Art, Uncategorizedacrylic painting, Art, Colorado, landscape painting, Pacific Spirit Park, RemembranceAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Today’s painting from the studio this afternoon is from the Nature Trail in the Pacific Spirit Park, which we enjoyed on our walk this morning. After I left the studio I learned that while I was painting another mass shooting was taking place in Boulder Colorado, which is why I am dedicating my painting of this special place to those who lost their lives in another senseless crime that has left more loved ones grieving once again who are all in our thoughts tonight.

a path to recovery and well-being

March 21, 2021Art, photography, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, branches, first day of spring, International Day of Forests, Pacific Spirit Park, pen and ink drawing, photography, Spring, United NationsAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Spring has definitely come to the woods and to the studio today on this United Nations International Day of Forests with its theme “Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being…to help address the climate-change and biodiversity crises.

Perhaps as we begin this second year of the pandemic the theme could appropriately be re-written to read “Mankind’s restoration: a path to recovery and well-being.”

If Trees Could Speak

March 18, 2021Photo Essay, Uncategorizedlandscape photography, Pacific Spirit Park, photography, Remembrance, treesAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

If Trees Could Speak

Thank you to Sara, Lani, Meghan and Lori from Metro Vancouver Regional Parks for creating such a memorable walk in the woods today. Their words, together with those of Nakita Gill, honoring the magnificent trees of our glorious Pacific Spirit Park are truly inspiring and uplifting.

They have also created a Raccoon Ramble for children for the next two weekends. How lucky we are to have their wonderful spirits in our midst. Our heartfelt thanks to them all.

And of course our thoughts today have been with all those grieving their loved ones murdered in Atlanta. The peace and tranquillity we are fortunate enough to enjoy here are a poignant counterpoint to all those suffering racial hatred and violence everywhere. Enough. We are better thank this.