Hugscotch

This is an image of a local beach, with the edge of the ocean at the top of the frame. Drawn in the sand is a large circle with hopsquatch squares leading away on both sides. Inside the circle are the words "HUG HERE".Hi Folks:

Hugscotch is a game best played by two, but if you’re on your own, feel free to start on one end, hug yourself in the middle and then hop off to the other end. If you don’t have a hugscotch on the beach where you happen to find yourself, feel free to create your own! One can also be made using sidewalk chalk, or use your own imagination!

Hugs,
M&M

P.S. Alternately, one may choose to create something completely different:

This image shows a local beach, with the ocean at the top of the frame. Drawn in the sand is a large circle, with a six-petal flower inside of it. Outside the circle reads, "Prime Hugging Spot".

Written in the Sand

This is a hug circle written in the sand at Stan's Beach, Victoria, BC. At the top of the image is a circle about 6'/2m in diameter. Underneath that it reads, "SHARE HUGS HERE"Hi Folks: Mobility issues kept us both away from the shore last year (and it’s only 200m away) but Mike has been able to get there three times this year. This was left during the last visit… and we had our first customers within five minutes! Of course, by the next day the tide had washed it away, but that’s okay too. A part of the appeal for us is that unless we’re actually standing there we don’t see who partakes in our offer of a hugging space, but we’re pleased with the idea that some do. They carry those memories forward.

Hug someone you love today. Or a stranger. Or, preferably, both!

Hugs,
M&M

Photo of the Month

Hi Folks:  Well, if you promise not to mention that the ‘photo of the month’ post was due yesterday, I’ll pretend not to notice!

At a meeting of our local photography group recently, several people did presentations of images based on a specific theme.  Mine was on ‘faces’.  I should explain that I’m not a people photographer, and people appear in far less than 5% of my work.  I shot a wedding, once, and swore I would never do it again.  However, as a landscape photographer one thing I like to do is to look for ‘faces’ and things in other objects.  Sometimes they’re fairly obvious and sometimes they’re more elusive.  If you go through my Flickr photostream you’ll find a number of such images, but I chose one to highlight as April’s photo of the month.  It’s a piece of driftwood I found along the shore on Dallas Road – nearly an entire tree, in fact, and there are some good size rocks embedded into the roots.  However, looked at from the bottom of the tree the shape forms a fairly good representation of a human skull. Continue Reading →