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Thinking Autumn - Feeling Winter

 A road trip to Kelowna began feeling like autumn, but showed a wintry side.

getting creative

More images created from photos I have taken

images created from photos I have taken

A friend shared one of Annie Lennox's photos on FB.  I know of her from the Eurythmics, but when I looked at some of her visual work, I liked what I saw.

  http://www.commecaart.com/htmlpages/alennoxinfo.html

I was inspired to create images out of some photos I have taken. What do you think? Is it art? A quote from the Simpsons: " I don't know art, but I know what I hate" - but you know something?  I don't hate this.  I kind of like it, and feel that I could work with this. 

I hear a pounding on the roof... Here comes the rain again.

Pirate Treasure

A basket of borrowed brass candlesticks being returned brought with it the image of pirate gold or a dragon`s treasure trove.  I know from experience that 'all that glisters is not gold', but shiny things still catch my eye's fancy, and my heart thrills with the thought of things that are not treasures, but feel as if they might be a fair substitution.  

O @#!*% ! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.

random stuff

Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally wrong with this slogan?  I wonder if something got lost in the translation into Canadian.  

Half Full - it's how we've seen our cups since 1970.  What does this even mean? Are they pessimists? Limited optimists? Underachieving optimists?  Impossibleists? (Is that even a real word?)

How much coffee do you order at a place like that in order to get a full cup?  

     "I'll have two cups of coffee - just put it in one cup"

Oh I know, there is probably some "we can always find room for improvement" motive.  

Still I have to concede that the slogan got me to take notice of a colleague's empty coffee cup - and No, I am not going to tell you the name of the company.

A special Vancouver way to recycle

A special Vancouver way to recycle.  This previously useful building is being re purposed into a form of mixed material landfill, all, apparently without benefit of a building permit, as the stop work order on the door indicates:  

"Demolition to site without Demo permit" 

I wonder if the city is going to make them put it back together.  It takes such a long time to build and such a short time to destroy.

junk abstract

lane and arched plant

 a long look up a lane

I love this gently arching branch with side branches reaching upwards.


I thought that I had posted this before - last spring, but cannot seem to find it.

The muse is not a harsh mistress, but don't keep her waiting.

The muse is not a harsh mistress, but don't keep her waiting.  Some day she may be gone.

You ignore the muse to your peril.  She is a true lady, but it does not do to ignore her overtures.  Be prepared in season and out of season.  Where is the best place to take photos?  Where you are.  When is the best time to take photographs?  When you have a camera.  If inspiration hits, go with it.  See where it will lead you.  Learning to take photographs is not difficult.  The difficulty lies in learning how to see.  When the muse beckons, I think that it is because there is something worth seeing, but if we repeatedly ignore the nudgings, perhaps we will forget how to see, or else we just forget to see.  we cultivate our talents or we bury them.