Today's Flowers

A little bit of Red and White for you today from Minter Gardens in  Chilliwack.

These little red blooms are actually from a large bundle. I don't know what the flower is but I liked these tiny red blooms!!

Minter Gardens has a beautiful rose garden. It is a bit of a maze to go through, and I think if you could look at it from above it would look like the layers of the rose itself. In the center of the rose garden is a round covered pagoda to sit in and enjoy the garden.

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Watery Wednesday

Can I have a moment of your time!
Have you got a moment?
Give me a moment!!
Just a moment!
One of the wonderful things about Photography is that it takes a moment of time and freezes it. It's about the moment! And a moment is something that comes and goes, is fleeting and I think is what makes us all the people, the person we are.We are made up of all the moments in our lives.

Moments are like these drops of water. Each drop a moment, and each moment gone in a flash into the collective.

Its hard to see what each moment taken one at a time can form when looked at separately. Like waterdrops each drop can be separate and join together with other drops to form a fountain.

We can take each moment and see it, experience it, follow it and watch it become that which it is supposed to become, learn from it and see it added to the collective. Become the fountain, full of waterdrop moments that fill our lives.

We can ignore the moments, and like the waterdrops, they rise one at a time, fall and join the fountain and fall towards the pool, where they disappear forever into the pool. I guess each moment is up to us, will we be present or will our moments fall to the pool, not gone forever, but forever changed.

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My World Tuesday - Abbotsford Rodeo

Every year our city has a Agricultural/Recreational Fair and Rodeo. this year marked the 100th Anniversary of the fair. Lots to see and lots to do at the fair. Lots to eat as well!! These next pictures are all from the Rodeo. Hard to believe but this is only the second rodeo I have ever been too. And I have lived in this town for years....

The evening's events started with the Ladies Grand Entry and the singing of the National Anthem.

There is Ladies Barrel Riding.

This horse shyed away from the barrels and would not go around them.

There is Men's Bronco Riding. This guy did not last long!!

A 12 year old Cowboy riding a Broncing Bull.

And then there is Calf Roping.

The Calf that managed to slip past the rope!

Every Rodeo has to have a clown and the Clown even has a Horse.

The Mighty Tug of War.

This horse did not want to come out of the stall and do his thing. He just stood there.

And then finally, some Steer Catching, or whatever they would call it. Come along side of the steer and fall off your horse onto its head and flip it to the ground.

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Double Shot!! Macro Monday and Color Carnival

My hubby has an extensive toy collection. One of the things he likes to collect are Pez dispensers. He has quite a lot of them, some form series and others just individual.He likes to collect them so he has one mint in the box and one he can open and use and display. Here are a couple of pictures of his various Pez dispensers from the Loony Tunes collection.

This is Marvin the Martian Pez dispenser. I think it is one of my hubby's favorite dispensers. It's also very rare to find these particular dispensers.

The whole collection here. Just of the Loony Tunes collection.

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For Today's Flowers, I have a couple of flowers taken while I visited Minter Gardens in Chilliwack.

It was kind of a blurry picture but I liked the opening bloom so I added a bit of texture to it.

A yellow Day Lily got the same treatment!!

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Weekend in Black and White.

We have an old dam that is now a museum here in Stave Lake. We decided to go and visit there a few

weekends ago and took a few pictures of the huge turbines that turned the water into electricity. I think the old building and its contents really goes well in black and white!!

I can't imagine the noise in this place when all these turbines were working to capacity. It must of been deafening to those who worked here.

This was just one of the numerous panel boards at the dam. There was signs everywhere too about live electricity. Must of been a high danger job!

They painted footsteps on the concrete floor for tourists to follow on a self tour of the dam. Another view of the huge turbines.

I like the patterns on the walls behind these turbines.

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Skywatch Friday

For Skywatch Friday, I have pictures I took last night when hubby and I went out to Mission Heritage Park to watch an outdoor concert. This is the first time in a long time we got to see some clouds in the sky and I think they look kind of impressive!!

I listened to the Weather report the other day, talking about rain. Usually in July we have about 40 mm. of rain in the month. This month we have so far only had .6mm of rain. That is why we haven't had any clouds!!

Here they were just setting up the Stage for the evening's concert. In the picture above to the left of the awning, you can see Mount Baker in the background.

People coming setting up their chairs to enjoy the concert. The sky was just as nice to watch as well!!

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