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Remembering The Battle of Vimy Ridge: April 9 -12, 1917

April 9, 2014Photo Essay, photography, UncategorizedBattle of Vimy Ridge, Canadian National Vimy Memorial, photography, postaday, Remembrance, The Canadian Corps, VimyAndrew Seal One comment

Commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which began at 5:30 am on Easter Monday the 9th of April 1917. The battle continued until nightfall of the 12th of April when the Canadian Corps of four divisions gained firm control of the ridge. They suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. Four members of the Corps received Victoria Crosses for their actions during the battle:

Private William Johnstone Milne of the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion.
Lance-Sergeant Ellis Wellwood Sifton of the 18th (Western Ontarion) Battalion
Private John George Pattison of the 50th (Calgary) Battalion.
Captain Thain Wendell MacDowell of the 38th (Ottawa) Battalion.

To view more images of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial I invite you to visit my post for Remembrance Day last year.

The haunting Flowers of the Forest is played by Pipe Major Angus MacDonald of the Scots Guards who for several years was the personal piper to Her Majesty the Queen, and described as one of the finest bagpipe players in the world.

Lest we forget

This is knot: a painting – homage to Rene Magritte

April 8, 2014Painting, photographyDaily Prompt, humour, painting, photography, postaday, visual punAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

I thought I would follow up my submission to the Daily Prompt: Make Me Smile with this homage to Rene Magritte’s painting Ceci nest pas une pipe.

Its partner piece is entitled not a painting or Ceci n’est pas une peinture in keeping with the homage, since it really isn’t a painting, but as you can see is indeed a knot…in a frame…which by the way is not for sale!

Finally, this week I submitted for the first time to the Weekly Writing Challenge. This week’s challenge is to write a story in exactly fifty words. I entitled it Knot at Home (sound familiar?) It is another homage, this one to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, as you will see if you visit the post on my other site theotherpalette.

OK…I think it’s time in the immortal words of George Burns to “Say Goodnight, Gracie”…

Not At Home

Knot At Home

…I do hope you’re smiling 🙂

Weekly travel Theme: Misty

April 7, 2014Uncategorized, weekly travel themeMachu Picchu, Mountain Lodges of Peru, Peru, photography, postaday, travel, weekly travel themeAndrew Seal View all 15 comments

These misty images for Ailsa’s Weekly Travel Theme are from our trek to Machu Picchu in June last year. They seem to be the perfect complement to my submission to this week’s Photo Challenge: Threshold.

The six day trek with Mountain Lodges of Peru along the Salkantay Trail to reach Machu Picchu was filled with moments of great beauty, triumph and exhaustion all experienced each day in the ever-changing magnificent Peruvian landscape seen so hauntingly in these misty mountain scenes and reflections in the turquoise water of Lake Humantay.

If you would like to see more of our journey I invite you to follow our trek day by day by visiting the early posts on my blog last June. Happy Trekking 🙂

The Monday Bouquet: April 7

April 6, 2014the monday bouquetphotography, postaday, tulipsAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Daily Prompt: Express Yourself!

April 5, 2014Daily Promptabstract painting, Daily Prompt, photography, postadayAndrew Seal View all 7 comments

…submitted to today’s Daily Prompt: Express Yourself

The threshold of Machu Picchu’s Royal Tomb

Market Day in Beaune the capital of Burgundy Wine country in France

Happy First Day of April!

Back from an afternoon walk down our street, which is alive with blossoms, I couldn’t resist just one more submission to “Street Life”. It’s too beautiful not to share. I hope you agree.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life – Revisiting Vancouver 2010

March 31, 2014Uncategorized, Weekly Photo ChallengePhoto Essay, photography, postaday, Sarah McLachlan, Street Life, Vancouver 2010, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

…As promised, more of the colorful street life in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, from Sarah McLachlan carrying the Olympic Torch, to street hockey, to drumming on the newspaper boxes, to waiting for the lights to change, and always thousands in the streets celebrating day and night. Enjoy the ride!