As I looked around, I realized we were all just looking and taking this all in. In our swimsuits at the pool, we did not have our cellphones, no cameras. Just our collective eyes! We all just stood and gazed and took it in and shared in the beauty.
Category: Random
Random thoughts
It is a Leap Year!
Leap Day just passes by, rather unobserved in the grand scheme of things. We make more fuss in North America over Ground Hog Day than we do over Leap Day.
Graphic tangle
I have just read my first graphic book. I felt as an author and all, I should explore this medium
Take me to the moon
Our moon is such a constant presence, waxing and waning around us so when they talked of the Artemis and her astronauts planning to circle the moon going into deep space I was surprised. ‘Isn’t the moon just a skip and a hop away?’
Cheers all the way
This is the Rugby World Cup taking place this time in stadiums all over France. But for today, the big final, it is back to Paris in the Stade de France.
Back from the seas
I was on a trip to visit my family in England, but the twist in the tale was that I crossed the Atlantic on the Cunard Queen Mary 2. That was a posh adventure with memories of my Grandy
Cross streams at Lac La Biche
This is my painting, but In real life, the house is wider and altogether larger. I know this as it is one of my favourite places. It is the mission at Lac La Biche. Lac La Biche is a town in northeast Alberta and it is interesting in so many ways, all flowing from its location on the shores of a large lake.
Here I am, the other side of Christmas and trying to keep up
Sorry dear blog land, I have not been very present these last few days. Every time I go to write, something else happens, and apparently, I lack the discipline to not get distracted! And all that Christmas prep, it started with a ridiculous amount of baking, and then I kept giving it away so had…
Emails that take off!
I love an email thread that weaves and flies between friends going down some rabbit hole to reemerge with a new branch of ideas, facts and memories. I am involved in one at the moment. It all started with a brass rubbing of some medieval bishop of Ely Cathedral in eastern England.
Give me gruel and water!
I have had a surfeit of ceremony, soldiers, sailors, church services and the words of mourning grateful subjects. I feel like I have just eaten far too much at a wonderful banquet.