Friday, August 12, 2016

A Photographic Detour, Part 1

Normally I write every day.  Even if I don't have anything that would belong on this blog, I still write -- things I saw or experienced, snippets of dialogue, characters, thoughts, feelings....

But this last couple weeks I've been on vacation with my parents and haven't been writing much -- I've been taking photos instead... lots and lots of photos.  I think most of the best either got me drenched, got a "What are you taking a photo of??" question from my dad, or got a warning not to have a repeat of our experience in Bern, Switzerland when I was 11 and dropped my camera into the bear pit (the bear kindly took a selfie of his bum by sitting on the camera, which I got back several hours later squashed and dented but with developable film that included a bear bum selfie... so it turned out okay.  It was not the most exciting thing to happen to my family in Bern, but that's a different story...).  No selfies here -- bear, bum, or otherwise, though I did just miss a great photo I wanted of a Buddhist monk taking a selfie with a selfie stick at Niagara Falls....

So here are some photographs that I hope tell a story or capture a moment or provoke an imagination as well as any written post could:

A train through a Canadian fairytale.  I expect Sleeping Beauty is lying around here somewhere -- or perhaps Snow White's Seven Dwarves building a tunnel for the train....

Apparently, if you want to find the leprechaun with the pot of gold, you have to go over the waterfall:

 The perfect hillside picnic spot:






Hey city of Burlington, you need a perfect postcard shot?

A morning chat with a seagull:

Freedom: 


Gee, dogs are really missing out:


Or not. What happens when dogs can't read:

Foot and soul therapy:

Dare you. Bet there are raptor ghosts in there:

To be continued...

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