A Colorful City

Richmond is a really colorful city. I was whipping my head around taking pictures as fast as I could, and I still missed some! Any white spots on the pictures are because it was raining. Rain even got on my header picture!

This makes me think of the Beatles and Kaleidoscope Eyes. Maybe that is what it means?

There were so many murals that I have to divide my post into two parts. These are the most colorful; the next post will have ones a bit more mysterious. 

“Beauty without color seems somehow to belong to another world.”

 ~Murasaki Shikibu

A Cloudy Trip

Quite a bit of our trip to Richmond today was driving through the clouds. There was fog, but it wasn't very dense. And the clouds had come down to meet the mountains.

Finally, on top of the mountain looking down in the little valley where we live.

“I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.”

Psalm 121

A Perilous Trip

I will be off from blogging today (Tuesday). We have to take a friend to Richmond. This involves driving over Afton Mountain in possibly bad fog.  This is one of the very few places that have cameras and fog lights embedded into the road. But it does not do much good. On a good day, it can look like this.

In the meantime, here are some of the unusual things for sale outside the strange little second hand shop a few blocks away. I think coffee used to come in these?

One person's junk is another person's treasure.

The White Ravens

I saw these pictures on Facebook, and just had to show you. Especially since so many of you are birdwatchers like us. These are white Ravens. Did you know there even is such a thing?

These are on Vancouver Island, where there is a big colony of them. They are quite rare.

There is a belief that seeing a White Raven signifies the impending end of the world. Nowadays that doesn't seem so far fetched!

"Quote the Raven, "Nevermore".

E.A. Poe

The Hunger

Behold February's full moon. Known as the Full Snow Moon, also The Hunger Moon.  I just snapped these a few hours ago.

Bee Art

Isn't this beautiful? It is what bees do naturally when left to themselves without any frames in their box. Their patterns are not done at random. They are made to regulate airflow so they have the ideal temperature that they need. No, I did not take this picture, but wish I had!

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

 ~Maurice Maeterlinck

Spare Parts

I saw these on Facebook and just had to show you! These wild creatures are made from old motorcycle parts by the Dutch artist Jos Hammer. That is him in the fifth picture.

A Nativity!

Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.

 ~Author Unknown