Spending last weekend with or beautiful granddaughter; what could be a better way to celebrate National Grandparents Day, and as you can see it also wasn’t hard to interpret this week’s Photo Challenge.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge
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The Unwavering Spirit
From St Paul’s Chapel, Lower Manhattan, New York
We visited the chapel on our visit to ground zero and the National September 11 Memorial Museum last year. The rear of the chapel faced opposite the east side of the World Trade Centre, as it does now to the Freedom Tower. After the attack on September 11 it served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the World Trade Center site.
As we pause to remember and reflect on that fateful morning fifteen years ago today this uniform together with the crushed remains of Ladder 3 that are so reverently displayed in the Museum, and about which I posted earlier this year, all serve to remind us of the sacrifice and bravery of those 343 firefighters of the New York City Fire Department who were lost that day, together with an additional 68 emergency workers and the 2566 innocent lives they were trying to save.
Hope & Healing at Ground Zero
a bouquet for labor day
labor day bouquet 5.9.16
Enjoying the last few blooms of summer.
Look for the The Four Treasures: Part Two tomorrow.
Mirroir d’Eau, Bordeaux, France.
From our memorable trip to South West France last October one more image to add to those that I posted last December on Day 335 of Studio 365 where you can read about this spectacular landscape architectural marvel, the largest reflection pool in the world and listed as a contemporary World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
a bouquet for the last days of summer
A bouquet picked for the first day of September from the final garden blooms of summer.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame
There are so many frames in this photo from yesterday’s anniversary post that I thought it deserved its own showing on this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame. After all there is the window frame, the frame around the Harvey Daniels silkscreen, the anniversary card frame, the reflection frames in the table glass, and if you look carefully you will see that I have now framed the photo itself in its own frame.
Happy Monday.
spirit wind
For last week’s Discover Challenge Ben asked us to show “something that stands out from the everyday.” This second submission is to share one of those rare moments to be savoured both visually and aurally. Last week on our favourite walk along the Admiralty Trail in the Pacific Spirit Regional Park the sun was illuminating the trees swaying in the warm afternoon wind creating a symphony of light and sound.
This week is our daughter and son-in-law’s second wedding anniversary and our forty second. A time to celebrate and be thankful, but this year I cannot help but think of the families and friends so callously murdered and injured at their own wedding celebrations last week in Gaziantep, near the Syrian border in Turkey, and to whom I dedicate today’s post. There are no words that can begin to understand their sorrow and pain. Not being religious I will let the wind in the trees of the Pacific Spirit Park be my prayer.
reaching for the stars and now back to earth
The American pole vaulter Sandi Morris on her way to the stars in Rio.
With the 2016 Olympic Games over is anyone else suffering from Olympic withdrawal today?
…from photos taken during the CBC Olympic broadcast and edited with Photo Shop Elements
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
the list’s the thing
For this week’s Discover Challenge from WordPress we are asked by Erica to explore the artistic side of list-making.
“Using the list form as your foundation, turn it into something unexpectedly beautiful.”
This seems the perfect excuse for another dip into my prized Journal from our Italian travels in 1999, which you may remember accompanied the Italian series of paintings last year during my Studio 365 day challenge.
Writing the journal at the end of each day became a labor of love. Each list of the day’s activities took on a life of its own, and as I look back through it again today memories of those lovingly documented moments come flooding back, which explains why the journal became the subject of my post for another Discover Challenge in April: Memory…
…the surgical instruments designed by Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla in the Museo Galileo in Florence…
….meeting Alessandro Menghini in the medieval garden he had designed in Perugia, which he describes in his book Il Giardino Dello Spirito…
…and the welcome gelati break in the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, lying in the warm afternoon sun.
But perhaps the most important lists of all from our trip were to be found in the train timetable book from Italian Railways, which became our bible as we travelled across this most beautiful of countries.
Definitely time for a return visit I think…maybe next year 🙂
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