yesterday in Crowcroft Park. The light was incredible changing from bright sunlight to dark and overcast in a matter of moments. A few minutes before this photo hailstones rattled down and a gale whipped across the park. The winter moment passed as quickly as it arrived until once again the sun shone.
5 minutes on and the light has become watery with no loss of contrast. I hear people whingeing about April's unpredictability but this is the very feature that most excites me. Spring is so dramatic, what other season can deliver winter energy and summer calm one after the other? Ah spring, washing Crowcroft Park, preparing it for the summer.
On a less cerebral note I understand from today's papers that the catholic church is changing the method by which miracles are classified. I gather it's something to do with competition between Lourdes and Eurodisney for tourists. Tomorrow I intend to say a little more about this because I think both attractions have something to learn from each other. For instance just as children are assailed by Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in Eurodisney why not offer pilgrims similar opportunities as they promenade toward the blessed shrine but this time using oversize Madonnas and maybe a few saints? It's a definite money spinner, more of which tomorrow.
8 comments:
I, for one, am praying for April sunshine. We hit a record in March for number of days of rain, and today, April 3, marks 3 straight days of it in April. We are floating on 140% of the "season's usual"
no drought again for us this year. and we needed no el nino or el nina to bring it. Hate to think of what future years with the nino's will bring.
Hayden,
In the UK there is a drought in the South and around London. A drought! We live on an island surrounded by the water, is that mad or what?
Ah! the pretty pictures! Is this the new camera? You should join Flickr, Dan.
Annie,
Not until I've got a collection as good as yours. Every now and then I dip in and they're very good.
Thank you! The fact that they're mostly out of focus is intentional, you know.
Annie,
I just presumed the focus thing was a post alcohol thing. But that's cos I link everything to alcohol.
All this talk about April showers and pilgrimages makes me think of Chaucer.
Y'know, when water becomes as precious as gold and oil, everybody's going to rush to Guyana :-D
G
Chaucer? He was a good catholic boy, well, a rude catholic boy, but he knew a thing or two about pilgrimages.
Ah Guyana, one day G, one day.
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