Share Your World

July 17, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

(Cee’s Photography posts questions each week, inviting us to share our world.) Favourite ice cream, frozen yogurt or sorbet flavour? Recently discovered a mango sorbet/ coconut ice cream combo that is over the top good. How often do you people watch? Every opportunity I get. People are so interesting. Human behaviour has always intrigued me. […]

V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #7: Accomplishment

July 16, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Prior to […]

VJWC: A Week of Mystery

July 15, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Inspired by a question about why a certain flower has five petals, this week’s challenge was born: mystery. The responses have been varied and all equally intriguing proving that life continues to be full of mystery. I started us off with a tale about a suspicious death in the family, pre-dating my existence. Like any good […]

CB&W: Fountains

July 15, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

One fountain to keep the fish happy, and one to charm the tourists: (Photos submitted for Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Fountains)

A Photo a Week: Quintessential Canadians

July 14, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I hope not all Canadians are not as noisy and messy as the goose that bears our country’s name, but I do know many of us are as industrious as the beaver: (For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Quintessential)

The Alice Network: a Worthy Read

July 13, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Charlie’s cousin Rose has disappeared, and refusing to believe she is dead, Charlie sets out to retrace Rose’s steps. Her investigation brings her to the door of Eve Gardner, a cranky woman, with deformed hands, a clear drinking problem, and a luger. Together, with the help of a Scotsman, with a shady past, the three […]

CFFC: Windows and Greenery

July 12, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

My lens is drawn to windows, not for what I can see beyond, rather for the mystery they invoke. I watch the world through the frame of a window – life passing while I lie still, praying for better days – certain that few would guess that I am here, wonder at my well-being. Now, […]

Bitten

Daylight softens and my lens twitches to follow the birds into the brush to a pond where green water ripples, exposes the presence of beaver, slicing through algae. I click. Success! Later revel in images, red welts raising on arms, legs afire with itch. (dVerse is back and celebrating 7 years with a quadrille, focus: […]

Adrift

We sail, determined, and yet, the destination is not of our choosing, charted by memories and the inadequacy of words, language faltering in foreign depths. We are islands, formed out of convenience afraid to open our foundational hatch, face the illicit truth, unwilling to examine the precariousness of our plot, unable to pay the price, prefer […]

Rage as Catalyst

This rage – this storm, waves crashing against walls impenetrable I am ice, unforgiving, unrepentant, wounded thrashing against a beast unwittingly played by you We freeze. I’ve come undone; you are battered. It is irreparable absolute until one of us shifts, and fear surges, unleashing tears and transformation.