Stop Smoking ...

Stop Smoking ... it is easy to stop, but hard to keep from starting

 

And sometimes there is a beauty to be found in the passing wonder of how it all goes away in the calm of the early morning 

and if we are lucky, never to be seen again 

                                       Except in the colors of the nearest flower !

 

 

Graffiti madness ??

Graffiti madness ??

 What are the chances that some artist would choose to spend the time required to paint in detail the image of a the Pacific Salmon on the steel rail next to an almost abandoned rail bridge over a meandering river on the Canadian Prairie?

Bring on Xmas...

Tis the Season

Hoar frost is the kind of winter wonder that makes it almost worth it,
when you consider that it is about as temporal as an eclipse...

When the sun comes out, all is vapor!



Then what?

Seems that when it is gone, it is "hoar-able",
       or so says Jack Frost.

Santa once said:

You don't know Jack!! Bring on Xmas...

Speechless

Speechless

 

So what is this Ford from the past?

How do they make them to last?

Can u still afford the gas ...

A free ride would be a blast, or at least poetry in motion!  

Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts

Apparently someone thinks we have time to read all this and actually CARE ...

Let us review:

1. Normal People Scare Me
2. If the environment is a bank, we would have saved it already
3. Keep your laws off my body
4. Don't believe everything you think
5. Guns don't kill people, drivers with cell phones do
6. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
7. I go slower if tailgated
8. Politicians and diapers need to be changed... often for the same reason!
9. I don't mind straight people as long as they act Gay in public.
10. Silly me I thought this was a free country               etcetera

Bird Bath  

Look for him he is there..

Red breast and all, one of the last Robins in the area,  taking a cool dip in a rocky stream!

Hope he is warm somewhere south,

 while we suffer the white of winter in the 'peg!

 

 

 

Great Speckled Bird

Great Speckled Bird

Buddy and 100 of his buddies arrived the day before the blizzard...

But what is it?

Never seen one before, bigger than a robin and very flighty, 

but QUIET!

Memory Lanterns

Memory Lanterns

Fire up your imagination and pretend you could rise above the ground in the evening sky, silently and with grace, wandering as a vagrant balloon of nothing but hot air in the stillness,,,

Life's journey is alot like that since from launch to crash we cannot be sure how long we will last, except that we leave behind the memory of the passage in those who remain, which is worth it.!

Right?

this tree is dead

Can there be any doubt 

that this tree is dead, 

and yet still standing

 in the middle of the field 

near Riding Mountain Park...

Surrounded by green growth,

 and in full daylight,

but here rendered as a neon blue version that simulates lightning in the night sky!!

Lots of fun to contemplate the growth pattern and why this tree died,

    when so full of life to look at??

Like a lightning rod on a cloudless day, the Human Rights Museum rises above the fog, and we locals are left to wonder why such a huge pile of money can be justified at a time when so many struggle to stay ahead of the bills and uncertain future generally as the forces of politics , commerce, and revolution spread fear far and wide

Look now!!

Look now!!

              Time stood still this summer and it seems like it is locked in place!

   

Moments of Reflection on both sides of the glass ... outside the Millennium Library

( which part is the dragon ??)

          Now you know the secret weapon against mosquitos         

 

                 

     Not everyone's favorite bug...  

                                  but to fly like one is every one's dream 

                                              and get to places we see in dreams and not be afraid!!

                    So take a good look and be jealous of the dragonfly ,

                    ( which part is the dragon ??)