The days are getting longer, snow is melting fast, and yes, this is the time of year when walking anywhere is a bit like an obstacle course, dodging slushy snow and puddles, and not walking too close to the street so you don’t get drenched by a passing car. Yet, spring is my favourite time of year!
I always have a camera in my bag (well, two if you count my phone)…but these are the results of actually taking a camera out of my bag! Work has been a little stressful, and as an antidote to that stress, I’ve been taking more pictures, and thinking about why I started my blog so I can come up with a tag line/slogan. There are two reasons… the possibility of a strike was looming at work and I wanted something to do when I wouldn’t be walking the picket line (our contract ended up being settled before that happened).
The second reason, and the one that still guides me, is that we are inundated with so much negativity in all forms of media everyday, and I wanted to put something out into the world the opposite of that. A negative free zone, if you will. My goal continues to be to showcase the simple things in life…a pretty flower, a funny animal, cool things I see in my travels, and just the beauty and wonder around us if you take the time to look. Photography has become a way to share how I see the world, a stress reliever, a great motivator to get out and see things, and allows me to exercise my creative side.
In that spirit, these are pictures I’ve taken over the last few days during everyday events – on my lunch break at work, taking the long way to walk to a neighbourhood store, and just stopping to look up at the sky…
watching cotton candy clouds roll by on a Friday night
These two pictures are for the couple yesterday who got off the bus while I was standing with my camera pointed up a tree, and stopped, looked at the tree, and walked away shaking their heads!
the song “Pink Houses” was in my head for the rest of the day
guessed on the right camera to take on my walk this morning
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard
I’ve shared this quote before from George Santayana, but it’s one of my favourites, and goes with the theme of this post:
You don’t always get to choose the things that happen in your life, but you always get to decide how you handle things. (I wrote that mostly as a reminder to myself!!!)
Just some pretty cherry blossom pictures… nature is a pretty wondrous thing!
cherry blossoms in front of the T.C. Douglas Building/Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina on Saturday night
Wascana Park, Thanksgiving Day morning
Today’s find – these pretty bleeding heart. I’m always happy to come across something I’ve never photographed before (I found these in a nice spring flower garden on the east side of the Legislative Building this afternoon).
Just happy that Spring is here and there are colourful scenes to photograph… like this one, this afternoon…
red barn, Sherwood Forest Golf & Country Club, near Regina on a Sunday afternoon
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