TAKE a DEEP BREATH.....

"Rivers know this. There is no hurry. We shall get there someday..."

                                               -Winnie the Pooh

"Patience is to be calm no matter what happens.." -Roy T. Bennett

"During the night, we must wait for the light..." -St. Frances de Sales

“I see it all through the lens of my camera—I want the shot now, now, now, click, click, click, and if I could just wait a second more, the moment would really flourish.”
― Emery Lord

"Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end..." -Mark Salzman

“Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it ,change the way YOU think about it.”
― Mary Engelbreit

                "Let the water flow beneath the bridge..." -Francois Fenelon

                                 "Patience is the gift of possibility..." -Lionel Suggs

"Do not lose your inner peace..." -Frances de Sales

"The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come..." 

                                                            -Carol Morgan

"A life is not a waste of time..." -Santosh Kalwar

“Don't let the time convince you to quit, instead, convince the time to extend with patience.”
― Nathaniel E. Quimada

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.." -Barbara Johnson

“There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.”
― A.J. Darkholme

                                                           "Truly, the best is yet to come..." -Laurie Page

“Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you’re exhaling”― Josh Stern

“The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!”
― Erwin W. Lutzer,

Photographs 2023
 

THE WIND and STARS

 THE WIND SAND and STARS (excerpts) (by  Antoine de Saint Exupery 1900-1944. French writer, who also wrote "The Little Prince", Distinguished  aviator. Died on a mission over the Mediterranean during WWII)

 "The face of the sea is as variable as that of the earth. To passengers, the storm is invisible. Seen from a great height, the waves have no relief and the packets of fog have no movement.

 The sea is like a splintered mirror. These colours of earth and sky, these traces of wind over the face of the sea, these clouds  tell of the quality of the night to come.

 The threat of frost, a promise of rain, so all that happens in the sky signals to the pilot the oncoming snow, the expectancy of fog, or the peace of a blessed night.

 The hours during which one flies over this mirror are hours in which there is no assurance of the possession of anything in the world.

 Dawn and twilight become events of consequence.

 Alone before the vast tribunal of the tempestuous sky, the pilot defends his mails and debates on terms of equality with those of three elemental divinites.

 The surface of the sea appears to be covered with great white motionless palm trees.

 Palm trees marked with ribs and seams stiff in a  sort of frost.

 The hydoplane pilot knows there is no landing here.

 The face of the sea is as variable as that of the earth.

Well not be worth the embrace of man and storm.

 Look to the clouds they tell of the direction of the wind or the progress of the storm, and the quality of the night to come."
                                                           

Hurricane Aftermath in Flannel City

 Massive trees downed today in hurricane type storm. Building lost siding, roof segments, chimneys toppled......

 Huge trees pulled up by their roots.........people stopping and taking pics  ( I am guilty of that one as well)

 Couldn't believe these old trees went over so easily. 

 Roots exposed. Pieces of tarps tangled.

 At the Catholic Church, cracked roots lie across the parking lot. Could have been worse. Could have gone across the road.

 Freezing wind. Everything blocked off.

 More trees. Big roots. Slammed into the ground.

 Kids find the time to climb on the trees.

 Snapped in half. Lots of downed power lines, just left dangling.

Roads closed. Tree leaning on power lines. Wow.

Face in the Mountain

 My, my, my....look what has appeared at Mount Washington. A face. A great big face. Now, who do you suppose it is? I think it resembles Wilfred Laurier, the 7th prime minister of Canada. But I could be wrong.He died in 1919, and I don't think he's come back to haunt us. But that is a face.........

Another big pile of dirt.  the adjoining range,the same day. Thunder and hail, on a spring day, that has turned ominous because Wilfred Laurier's face has appeared on Mt. Washington. What does it all mean?

March Storm in like a Lion

 Huge storm last night and today. Hurricane force winds   ( well  so they said on the Weather Network), just slammed into our part of the island.  There must have been a foot of snow last night, followed by rain, and lots of it, followed by ice pellets, and ending with the wind.

This is looking across from the Big Island to the lighthouse at Quadra Island. Telephoto lens works great.  Some day will have to get me an even bigger lens, but for now it's just great.

            Looking back along the coast line to Flannel City  ( sorry, can't resist calling it that). 

 Surging ocean, throwing up logs onto the beach and turn about. . Could practically taste the salt spray as it  slashed it's way over the rocks and logs.  Wind was so strong, hard to stand up.....

                                                          Surf  and lots of it......

        Looking out past the end of Quadra Island with the Coast Mountains in the distance.

                                 Lone seagull wafts its way past the rocks and logs.....

                                                 Over the never ending surf......

                                                         Into the wind..................

           And he makes it......................Maybe March will go out like a lamb.......one can only hope.....