Market Friday (Part Two) and talks of Pigeon Kissing, Blog, New Digital Art and Photography

almost 2 years ago

Market Friday

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It was definitely a slow start, but spring is definitely in the air. Daffodils and crocus are blooming with gusto and making up for lost time.

Cherry blossoms are threatening to bloom and should arrive some time next week in its full pink. The temperature though merely inching up, it is definitely warmer. The old man is finally thinking of retiring.

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The birds too are getting into the act. Red-tipped black birds are singing up a storm, with all the other sections of the Dawn's Chorus providing harmony, rhythm and beat. And the pigeons have begun their courtship of preening and kissing, yes kissing.

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The male pigeon feeds the female regurgitated seeds; and given the preening I saw one do before feeding the object of his affection, they may indeed also feed them pigeon lice.

Love is indeed blind and gives you a strange feeling in your stomach, but it does also prevent waste.

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Yesterday, I shared some of my visit to UBC and the Belkin Art Gallery. It is a small facility but free, and the quality of art ... in my opinion ... high.

I was quite taken with 1993 work Secret Garden by Mike Macdonald.

The work features 16 screens/panels each featuring its own subject.

MacDonald starts by featuring blooming flowers and buzzing bees. Then moves on to more flowers, and this time delicate butterflies, acting secondary blooms and flashes of color.

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The flower is pollinated and the air is scented.

The viewer is transported from the poured concrete gallery, to a beautiful, rich, and nurturing world. The aerial inhabitants play nursemaid to nature.

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Alas the TV panels change toward the end. The bees and butterflies are replaced by airliners, electric wires and concrete. The sky is opened to travel for bipedals; human take to the air; but color and diversity is sacrificed.

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We had hoped the skies would remain clear enough for us to attend a Starry Nights out at SFU's Trottier Observatory, to do a little sky inhabiting ourselves. Although the clouds were wispy, they were still thick enough to block out the stars. So we will have to put off the journey to Andromeda via Burnaby for another evening.

Wishing everyone an enjoyable and fruitful weekend:)