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Today, I bring you a mix of photos from the Guelph pools.
It's a cool day out there today, and it's not entirely welcome. Fall is fabulous, but I do feel a little let down by Summer, and I'm bitter. For some reason I miss those humid disgusting days from past summers. Call me crazy, but it's true.
I'll get over it and I will start to embrace Fall. Maybe I should write a Fall Manifesto!
Have a great day, everyone!
Donna
Can you guess what all these shots have in common?
You have got it! Film!
I've had a passion for film ever since I got my first digital SLR. It was a funny way of finding it, eh.
I wonder how many of you out there still carry a torch and keep film alive. There have been murmurings of a film club for Guelph, and I'll let you know all about it if it comes about.
There is also something else I want to tell you about. On Friday's post there was a comment from Elora's BIA administrator for a Monster March!
"You and your group are invited to join in the
First annual
Monster March Parade
On Saturday, October 24th, at 6 pm
Which will wind its way through Downtown Elora.
This is a non-motorized Costume Parade
Motorized vehicles of any kind/size will not be permitted
and all participants must be costumed.
The Parade will be a wonderful community event, which will also serve as an integral fundraiser for our local foodbank. We will be collecting non-perishable food items at the start and finish areas of the Parade route from McDonald Square to the Elora General Store.
If you would like to participate in this year’s Monster March,
request a registration form from the
BIA Administrator, 9 Mill St. West, Elora
Email: elorabia@wightman.ca Call Monday - Tues: 519-846-2563"
Have a great Monday and have a click on the photos below!
Donna
Hello again all!
I'm just dropping in quickly for one shot friday.
Here it is:
It appears that my friend Alan has a new toy....lucky lad.
Thought I'd leave you with a moody Friday poem too.
Just for fun.
Although it has very little connection to the picture come to think of it....
Nevertheless:
To whoever is not listening to the sea
this Friday morning, to whoever is cooped up
in house or office, factory
or street or mine or dry prison cell,
to him I come, and without speaking or looking
I arrive and open the door of his prison,
and a vibration starts up, vague and insistent,
a long rumble of thunder adds itself
to the weight of the planet and the foam,
the groaning rivers of ocean rise,
the star vibrates quickly in its corona
and the sea beats, dies, and goes on beating.
So, drawn on by my destiny,
I ceaselessly must listen to and keep
the sea's lamenting in my consciousness,
I must feel the crash of the hard water
and gather it up in a perpetual cup
so that, wherever those in prison may be,
wherever they suffer the sentence of the autumn,
I may be present with an errant wave,
I may move in and out of windows,
and hearing me, eyes may lift themselves,
asking "How can I reach the sea?"
And I will pass to them, saying nothing,
the starry echoes of the wave,
a breaking up of foam and quicksand,
a rustling of salt withdrawing itself,
the gray cry of sea birds on the coast.
So, through me, freedom and the sea
will call in answer to the shrouded heart.
Pablo Neruda (of course)
ciao,
-Downtown Lynn-
I'm glad someone's lily bloomed this year. My calla sadly grew piles of some fine leaves, but not one flower. Soon it will winter in the basement where it will be totally ignored until Spring. I'll then dig it out from under whatever landed on it and I'll see the tiniest bits of life poking up from the dirt.
I hope your Thursday is shaping up well, and that you are enjoying the day. These photos have certainly made my day brighter!
Donna
Fall has arrived, and today, I make pesto! I've been putting off pulling out the basil. I wanted it bigger and taller. I wanted more. It just wasn't in the cards this year.
The recipe I'll use will include walnuts instead of pine nuts and I will pestle and mortar the whole business. I sound serious about my pesto what with the pestle and mortar, but it's only because the food processor is on it's last legs.
One year I made sage pesto and it was mighty fine. Here's the recipe.
Enjoy your day everyone. I think we're in for more rain!
Donna
Downtown Guelph, University of Guelph, The Guelph Hillside Festival or The Guelph Lake Conservation Area.
On the other hand, you may be curious about what the City of Guelph looked like last October or maybe Spring. Indeed you may be the type that would love to wade through our deep and refreshing archives. There are over 5,000 terrific Guelph photos, taken by a growing tribe of fantastic photographers, currently available for your viewing pleasure. Check out the Blog Guelph archives located 'back up there' and appropriately titled: Blog Guelph Archives.
