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Hi Folks: Last Sunday night Marcia and I had the pleasure and the privilege of staying at the Villa Marco Polo Inn here in Victoria, giving us an opportunity to be tourists in our own town. Before I get to that, our being there is a story in itself. One of the e-mails that arrives in my Inbox every week is from Mindi & Dave Pettitt and the rest of the crew at HarbourLiving.ca Basically it’s a weekly newsletter that let’s us know what’s happening in and around Victoria, and it also includes information on events for the rest of the island as well. Now, last December I noticed an article asking for a photograph and a story to do with Christmas, as a way of celebrating the holiday season. Being a storyteller at heart I grabbed one of my Christmas images out of Lightroom, added a story, and sent it off. Several days later we received a phone call from the folks at Tourism Victoria informing me that I had won one of the daily prizes in their ‘Christmas is Here‘ contest. Among the prizes was a carriage tour, annual passes for the Royal BC Museum, and a stay at the Villa Marco Polo Inn. Continue reading “Villa Marco Polo Inn“ Hi Folks: This is a very quick post, but I wanted to point you in the direction of the following website. Photographer Dewitt Jones has created a site called ‘Celebrate What’s Right with the World!‘ that will be updated weekly… Each week he’ll post a new image, with the underlying [...] Hi Folks: I’m currently reading the book ‘Gatherer of Clouds‘ bySean Russell, and I wanted to share a few pages that jumped out at me. In a way it connects to the ‘Becoming a Better Photographer‘ post that I wrote a week or two ago. The book is set in a mythical Oriental land, somewhere around a thousand years ago I’d say, based on the plotline of the book. What I’m including here is Chapter 6, pp. 64-68. I think it’s well worth considering. via youtube.com “Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Meade Posted via web from wolfnowl’s [...] Love shows us the way to be. (bathroom graffiti) Posted via email from wolfnowl’s posterous Hi Folks: I thought that subject heading might cause a few people to scratch their heads in wonder, so permit me a moment to explain. First of all, I’ve had a love affair with the earth since I was a boy living in the woods in Quebec. I’d come home from school, drop my books on the kitchen counter, yell a quick hello and I was gone until dark. To this day, the ‘woods’ is my true home. As such I’ve loved gardening for a long time too, both indoors and out. The first apartment Marcia and I had together was above the double garage, attached to the main house. We had a large picture window in the living room and we had so many plants that several visitors to our landlady asked her if she had a greenhouse! Marcia’s often said that all of my plants want to be trees. In one home we had a 15-foot cathedral ceiling and we had 4 plants over 10-feet tall, including FRED, our Christmas tree. In our guest bedroom we had a hibiscus plant that was basically an 8-foot diameter ball that took up half the room. We planted a Brugmansia in a pot, expecting it (as per the image that came with it) to grow about 2-feet high and have a number of white flowers. Ours grew 6 feet in a couple of months and had one flower that was nearly 2-feet long. It was a night bloomer, and every evening all four floors of the house were filled with the most amazing scent. In our last place together we had two poinsettias that re-bloomed 14 months after we got them. One of them put out 24 blossoms! So, where’s the danger in all of this you ask? Ah, I was just getting to that. Continue reading “The Dangers of Planting Bulbs“ Hi Folks: We came across this story by David J. Pollay recently, and with his permission we’re including it on our blog. It’s a simple story, but like many simply stories, one well worth remembering. If you have not yet heard of David, here is his bio:
Without further ado, here’s David’s “Law of the Garbage Truck” (NB: After reading the story, click on the link and take David’s “No Garbage Trucks Pledge”!) Mike. Continue reading “Telling Tales: The Law of the Garbage Truck“ Last night we caught the bus downtown as we wanted to be near the water. There’s one place in town that’s on our ‘dream list’ and we went there first. It was raining yesterday, but although we brought our umbrellas with us the rain stayed away. The sky was a blanket of [...] |
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