Day 319 - It's here... finally!

I love the winter, but I am so happy that spring is finally here... and all the beautiful colours with it.  This is the first flower to show itself in our front yard.  I love the colours, and excited to find other colours to photograph!

Day 288 - Is it finally here?

I was walking home through the muddy messy field, and noticed the ice was melting in with this interesting pattern. Spring is on it's way... maybe.

Day 251 - "Somewhere out there..."

I remember when I was young watching the movie An American Tail. If you haven't seen it, it's a movie about Fievel's journey to reunite with his family in America.  The family was immigrating from Russia to America in hopes of finding freedom, when Fievel becomes separated from his family. There is one scene in the movie where Fievel looks up into the sky and sees the moon and sings "Somewhere out there".  At that same moment Tanya, Fievel's sister, is doing the exact same thing. It's such a sweet moment of pure love.

To this day, every time I look up at the moon, I think of that song.  It actually means more when I'm away from my family. We saw the moon every night in Morocco, and I photographed it a lot.  A friend didn't really understand why I was so enchanted with the moon, and there are many reasons, including knowing that it's a connection to others.  It was a stunning sight, and there was something comforting about seeing the moon every night.

 I think if we stayed there any longer in Morocco, I would have started belting out the song (instead of singing it in my head)... lucky for everyone, we didn't!

Somewhere out there,

beneath the pale moonlight,

someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Somewhere out there,

someone's saying a prayer,

that we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there.

And even though I know how very far apart we are,

it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star.

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby,

it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Somewhere out there,

if love can see us through,

then we'll be together, somewhere out there,

out where dreams come true.

Day 244 - Interesting carvings

What I loved about walking through the cemetery was seeing how Toronto has changed over time, not only with the names on the epitaphs, headstones, etc, but also in the styles and carvings on them.  I like the carvings on this one.  I wish I knew more about how it was selected and some of the traditions and cultures represented.

Day 221 - Shy kitten

Finally, working through all my Morocco pictures and editing, and found this cute little guy!  I have so many pictures of cats, since they were EVERYWHERE! This little guy was at our host family's family's place.  We wanted to play with him, but he kept running away.

Day 202 - Video screen shot of Andalusian Gardens

So, I was uploading videos, and found a few videos from Morocco that I had forgotten I had taken.  This is in the Andalusian Gardens in Kasbah des Oudaias  (Kasbah of the Udayas) in Rabat. I LOVED this whole place.  That day I realized I had not taken much video, so I took my camera along and tried my hand at videography.  In the end, when we got to the Garden, I was torn between taking video and taking pictures!  I guess that is the danger of having 3 cameras with you!  I just discovered that my camcorder allows you to take images from a video, so that is how this was generated!

I could have spent the whole day here.... I guess, just another place to visit again when I'm not so rushed.