I look up.
I look down.
I look back.
And I look all around.
Alberta doesn’t get the same range of fall colours that make Central and Eastern Canada so lovely at this time of year, but sometimes one colour is enough.
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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2023 Nov 25
Tweet of the Week
I was this-many years old when I learned the origin of the expression "a bolt from the blue."
Lightning comes in different flavors.
But can you name the different types of bolts?
This chart does a useful and interesting recap.
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The Week’s Best Example of Making Merry
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Long before babies can speak conventionally, they begin laughing - making laughter one of humankind’s earliest and most important forms of communication.
For your baby, laughter (which typically begins at about 3 months of age) conveys much more than just “I find this… https://t.co/zoIYstbiNG pic.twitter.com/gM0PqCET7a
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Music of the Week
Posted: 2023 Nov 25
Poetry of the Week
This is not a loaf of bread
This is daily sanctuary
This is breakfast in bed
Or beans on toast for tea.This is not a loaf of bread
This is shared community
This is a soup-dipped crust
Or a picnic lunch for three.This is not a loaf of bread
This is tasty alchemy
This is a gravy soaker-upper
Or a gourmet chip butty.This is not a loaf of bread
This is a crafted recipe
Of sun and rain and earth
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On the third one you got me at trees over the road. Sublime.
Barbara – 🙂 Trees that large are rare in Calgary (anywhere in Alberta, I guess) and are found only in the older areas of the city. It was that view that got me started.
I am amazed that merely looking at the photos I have a sense of levitation and floating through this golden paradise. The reflections are unfathomable like some oriental silk designs but not less lovely for that drift towards abstraction. The branches of the great trees appear to be bearing a burden of gold almost too heavy to support until you remember that flake by flake it will flutter and fall away.
Laurna – I guess all seasons are transient, but somehow autumn’s beauty seems more so – or more poignant.
Good timing on your visit to Edmonton. I recall the leaves falling earlier than this. Here in the Okanagan, leaves are hanging onto their twigs tenaciously still — more greens than yellows, and very few reds.
Jim T
Jim T – This view was actually Calgary, but the timing point holds. I was surprised to see a fair representation of orange leaves in newer parts of the City: columnar aspens, which were new to me altogether and especially as trees grown in Calgary.
Beautiful photos, Isabel.
Glad you’re enjoying western nature at its finest.
Tom
Tom – 🙂 Many thanks.
These are beautiful photos!
Mary – Many thanks.