Another May new buds and flowers shall bring
Ah! why has happiness no second spring?
Charlotte Spring (Elegiac Sonnets)
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Markings
Photography Challenge week 17: Markings
The image that came to my mind when I saw this week's topic was the tattoos of the Maori people of New Zealand. I find them fascinating. But I found no Maori people on the Canadian prairie today, so I've settled for the way we use markings in our daily lives.
The image that came to my mind when I saw this week's topic was the tattoos of the Maori people of New Zealand. I find them fascinating. But I found no Maori people on the Canadian prairie today, so I've settled for the way we use markings in our daily lives.
Markings on the side of the rain gauge measuring yesterday's rainfall: Just over an inch.
Marking high water after a severe flood.
Leaving one's mark.
"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely." (Sophocles)
Monday, 28 April 2014
Chain Bridge / Budapest
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Formless
Photography Challenge week 16: Formless
For this week's challenge I knew right away I wanted to photograph the wind, mostly because it seems to blow here all the time. Many times the wind has forced me and my camera indoors. Photographing the wind seemed like embracing it, or at the very least, making peace with it for a little while.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimists expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
For this week's challenge I knew right away I wanted to photograph the wind, mostly because it seems to blow here all the time. Many times the wind has forced me and my camera indoors. Photographing the wind seemed like embracing it, or at the very least, making peace with it for a little while.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimists expects it to change;
William Arthur Ward
Friday, 25 April 2014
Monday, 21 April 2014
Danube morning
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought into sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
Sunday, 20 April 2014
Friday, 18 April 2014
Classic
Photography Challenge Week 15: Classic
My favourite classic Easter hymn, which we will hopefully sing this Sunday, Jesus Christ is Risen Today. The hymn book in this photo is also a classic, and no longer in use.
My favourite classic Canadian novel is W. O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind.
Who Has Seen the Wind is set in Saskatchewan, but I have always felt that it speaks to anyone who knows the beauty of the prairie:
"Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirements simply, of land and sky - Saskatchewan prairie."
My favourite classic Easter hymn, which we will hopefully sing this Sunday, Jesus Christ is Risen Today. The hymn book in this photo is also a classic, and no longer in use.
My favourite classic Canadian novel is W. O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind.
Who Has Seen the Wind is set in Saskatchewan, but I have always felt that it speaks to anyone who knows the beauty of the prairie:
"Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirements simply, of land and sky - Saskatchewan prairie."
first line of Who has Seen the Wind
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Peephole
Photography challenge week 14: Peephole
This week's theme was all about framing. This resulted in a few interesting "tourist" photos.
Ship through the window of the Passau Castle
This week's theme was all about framing. This resulted in a few interesting "tourist" photos.
Wagon on the roof in Szentendre
Fishermen's Bastion, Budapest
I think this is the most beautiful example of public art I have ever seen.
Ship through the window of the Passau Castle
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
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