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From Bean to Brew in Peru

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Did you know that today is National Coffee Day? I certainly didn’t, particularly as everyday is National Coffee Day in our house. But it really is as I discovered on my Twitter feed this morning when I saw the hatch tag #nationalcoffeeday.

And so to celebrate this important day in the life of my fellow coffee drinkers everywhere I thought I would look back to our coffee plantation visit on Day 5 of our trek to Machu Picchu with Mountain Lodges of Peru in 2013, a day on which we all enjoyed a memorable cup of strong aromatic coffee having witnessed its journey from bean to cup…

…and a great way to respond to Kristin who asked us to show “a change in progress” for this week’s Photo Challenge: Change

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

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Pope Francis in New York today at the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool praying for peace and remembering those who were lost on a day change came so suddenly and violently to our world.

Photo taken during the broadcast on CNN this morning
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City of the Imagination I – VIII 23.9.15

City of the Imagination began on Day 261 in response to this week’s Photo Challenge: Grid. Variations VII and VIII were posted yesterday for Day 265, so today I thought I would put all eight together as a final City of the Imagination grid. Look for more to come in the next day or two that will definitely now be off the grid.

Studio 365: Day 262

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Day 262 iv   Day 262 v

City of the Imagination II and III 19.9.15

City of the Imagination I was Day 261 and submitted to this week’s Photo Challenge: Grid. A few more Cities still to come.

Studio 365: Day 261

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Day 261 iv     Day 261 v

For today’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid, Michelle asks us to “…take the humble grid out of the shadows, and make it the star.” After seeing Leanne Cole’s wonderful photo homage to New York yesterday and Vladimir Brezina’s photos of New York today, it was out to the studio and the creation of an imagined grid of the wonder that is New York. As you can see it is very much a work in progress but good things may come of it I think.

Day 261 i

City of the Imagination I 18.9.15

Studio 365: Day 256

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Dramatic skies over Active Pass and Mayne Island on this morning’s ferry ride to Victoria.
Monochromatic and magical I hope you’ll agree.

Studio 365: Day 254

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Freedom Tower IV

To commemorate a day that is forever etched into our collective memories, today’s monochromatic Freedom Tower IV follows Versions I, II and III from February of this year after our moving visit to The National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York.

Day 254 iii

The letters for this quote from Virgil in the Memorial Hall of the Museum were forged from remnant World Trade Center steel by blacksmith Tom Joyce. Surrounding the quote is an art installation entitled Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning by the artist Spencer Finch who created the work “to pay tribute to the victims and to explore both the personal and the collective nature of memory.”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Monochromatic

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Slurry Wall, Foundation Hall, 9/11 Memorial Museum

On a day on which we pause to reflect on the events of 9/11, a day that is seared in all of our memories I have been looking back at my photographs from our visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York last January and remembering how moved we were as we walked through the Memorial exhibit. The Museum has comprehensive descriptions online and on their app and I would invite you to visit their site to read about the slurry wall and how its structural integrity prevented flooding of subway tunnels and parts of lower Manhattan.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time…Virgil

The letters for this quote from Virgil in the Memorial Hall were forged from remnant World Trade Center steel by blacksmith Tom Joyce. Surrounding the quote is an art installation called Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning by the artist Spencer Finch who created the work “to pay tribute to the victims and to explore both the personal and the collective nature of memory”

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…for this weeks Photo Challenge: Monochromatic

Studio 365: Day 251

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Peak 2 Peak

The Peak 2 Peak Gondala connects Whistler and Blackcombe mountains. Unfortunately it is shrouded in mist today so here is a photo from our visit last September when we hiked the high alpine trails in the great Adventure Zone that is Whistler Mountain.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Connected

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For this week’s Photo Challenge Ben asks us “to show how two (or more) things — people, objects, places — come together.”

Connected ii

This image may seem familiar to you if you were participating in Photography 101 last November and you recall Cheri asking us to capture the day’s theme: Connect. I’m afraid I couldn’t resist revisiting the conceit.