Moments

20 September 2023 – Some recent moments that snagged my eye. (And my mind.)

Mono-print banners of the gabled façade of a demolished home, their Ghosts dancing with the wind on a fire-razed Mount Pleasant lot…

Words of Welcome (“Future it be now”) & wisdom (“If you heart mind open, you receive new knowledge”), along the False Creek North Seawall, in both 19th-c Chinook Pigeon & 20th-c English…

A giant nodding sunflower seed head, already fulfilling its autumnal duties…

Deadpan cards “for people who don’t like cards,” in a Granville Island bookstore for people who love books, stories & words in general…

and the cavernous depth of wooden pilings at your back, while you face forward on a bright metal Granville Island dock and wait for your ferry.

There is always something.

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  1. Lynette d'Arty-Cross's avatar

    There certainly is. Always great to shadow your walks, Penny.

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  2. restlessjo's avatar

    There always is and that’s a great panorama you have there to choose from. The cards are appealing too.

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  3. julesparis2013's avatar

    I love your observations. May I ask if you take your photos with a camera or your phone?

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  4. julesparis2013's avatar

    I love your observations. May I ask if you use a traditional camera or your phone to take photos?

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    • icelandpenny's avatar

      Salut! I’m not at all a photographer and my equipment proves it: my simple little iPhone SE. That’s it! But as you say Juliet, a story is about the observations, isn’t it, that’s what catches us… I see some similarities in our blogs: each with shoes on the home page as the image, and each with a quote that amounts to making your own way through life. (And each of us, in origins, an eastern Canadian…)

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