Beauty in a Strange Place

Take a look at the picture accompanying this piece. What do you see? Several beautiful colours? At a glance, could you tell what this is and how the colours were formed?

Last week, it was raining as usual and stepping out of the car, I saw these beautiful colours forming, with the flow of water, across that part of the lot. It looked like a work of art and in some perverse way, it was. Of course I had to snap it with my phone.

What caused this beautiful creation? Oil; it was an oil sheen created by a thin layer of oil floating on top of the water and spreading across the lot by the rain. This image does not capture the full beauty of the colours; blue, green, gold, lilac, pink, purple and the shifting shapes as it flowed.

On a wet, dreary day when I just wanted to hurriedly complete my errand and return home, I found beauty in a strange place, oil sheen in the parking lot of a huge wholesale warehouse. 

Will keep you posted.

Sunny Days

Today is sunny. Yesterday was sunny. Tomorrow’s forecast is rain, just what we've had for most of this spring. 

After a long winter, we look forward to sunshine, with strategically placed (never on the weekend) spring showers of course, to brighten our mood and feed our soul. It’s difficult to maintain being in a funk when the sun is shining but on rainy, dull days, we can feed that funk into a raging greyness. No wonder many of us look forward to that week in March when we head south to bask in sunshine.

Yesterday, I cut the grass so my lawn could look a bit more civilized. Because of fertilizer and constant rain, it was starting to look a lot like an undisturbed nature preserve and I was beginning to wonder if small animals were taking up residence. Today, I'll remove weeds from the stone edging. 

We have been promised a sunnier, drier summer and after a very soggy spring, I’m looking forward to some heat. That is, until it gets too hot and then we’ll be reminding each other of the beautiful, cool, showery spring that was so good for the garden. You know it’s true.J  

Will keep you posted.

It's Been Awhile

It’s been awhile since I wrote more than 140 characters. You see, some time back, I decided to blog, join Facebook and Twitter. I envisioned blogging every day with occasional visits to Facebook and Twitter but to my surprise, I took to Twitter like a duck to water; I think I’ve even become addicted since I check it out on my iphone when lying in bed.

My Twitter use really took off during the last federal election campaign. Finding who to follow, instant information from newspapers and blogs I would never have found on my own and reading people’s personal opinions added an exciting dimension to the election. I enjoyed it all even when the election results were not what I wanted.

I’ve always enjoyed the latest technology and can remember when I bought our first computer and was not even sure what I was supposed to do to make it work.  I remember our first VCR and how excited we were to have it now we can watch movies online. I remember buying Nintendo for my girls and how excited they were.  I love playing Wii games when I visit my daughter Sharon and her husband Mark. 

I love social media. It’s an excellent way to stay connected and young at heart if not in body. It’s nice to be aware of what others are talking about when words like Twitter, iphone and Facebook are mentioned Life is moving rapidly and we need to keep up or be left by the wayside wondering what the heck happened.

Will keep you posted.