Pam's Week 41: You Write on This Body, Leaving Your Sad Graffiti, Your Sad Graffiti

A caveat before you look at this week's photos - they would have been much better if the sky was blue and the sun was shining at some point when I had both the time and the equipment required to actually take some pictures and if the photos in my head were consistently captured by my camera. 

Yet again it is into the next week and I am playing catch up with this blog.  Time just seems to get away from me and all my good intentions continue to not be enough to get all the tasks on my to-do list done.  My attempts at organization this school year have been much more successful than in years past but there just aren't enough hours in the day.  Of course, the fact that it feels like midnight when the clock says it is 7 pm is not helping the situation any.  Oh well, looks like fall is here for sure and winter is on it's way which will result in even shorter days so I should stop complaining and get used to it...

A quick note - many of you will not recognize the title lyric today and that is really unfortunate.  It is from the song "Human Remains" by an old friend of mine, Chris Belsito.  Since nostalgia was one of the topics from this week, as is graffiti, it seemed fitting that I would choose a song that would be nostalgic for me.  When Chris and his various bands used to play local bars regularly, his girlfriend (now wife) and I would do his hair and makeup and help pick out his wardrobe to ensure he truly had the rockstar look.  Lots of fun times and memories from those days and with those two.  We don't see each other very often but there will always be a special place in my heart for them.

Wow - that got sappy fast.  Must be all this nostalgia stuff.  Okay, on with the photos:

Graffiti
When Sharon and I were chatting the other night and I was admitting to have only attempted one photo and not being particularly pleased with it, we started discussing where in town there was nice graffiti as opposed to the "let's ruin buildings because we have nothing better to do" kind.  After walking Riya tonight and gathering most of the requisite shots for this week, we drove by a street that isn't in one of the best areas of town though they are trying to revitalize the area and there was the graffiti I was hoping for.

Technology
My intention actually was to take a photo of an old viewmaster that once belonged to my grandfather.  I remember being so amazed as a kid that they had family photo reels and not just the typical Niagara Falls touristy reels that we had for ours.  Unfortunately, my parents don't even remember the viewmaster and although I was sure it was at their house, they had no idea what I was talking about. 
Interestingly, I just finished Dan Brown's latest novel, "Origin" which hypothesizes that in the future, humans will be so intertwined with technology that we will actually no longer be fully human (or something like that).  As such, I thought it was interesting to see how my own life has evolved - I have clear recollections of the 8-track player my parents had in the house and in our van, the record I first purchased with my own money, the advent of cassettes, DVD's and now electronic music files.  Video has progressed in the same way, as have books.  How will our entertainment look in the future?

Y
I took Riya to Fort Creek for a walk along the Hub Trail tonight in the hopes I could find some new photographic subjects.  Luckily, I didn't fall while looking for "y" shapes in the trees, although that would have allowed me to be a little more creative in my quest for this week's "fall" photo.

Nostalgia
So I was already nostalgic with my song choice this week as well as during my technology discussion.  My original intention for this photo was to find an old car but that didn't happen.  Tonight while walking at Fort Creek, however, I became nostalgic for a walk I had taken there many years ago with my friend, Courtney.  She has since moved back to Saskatchewan but every time I think about that one walk, I begin to giggle to myself.  You see, back a number of years ago, there was no Hub Trail and thus the trails at Fort Creek were true nature trails - tree roots, rocks, mud, leaves, rivers.  They weren't the easy paved and bridged trails they are today.  Courtney and I decided we should walk there for something different and somehow I think we thought it might be less muddy than Hiawatha.  Boy, were we wrong.  As if the muddy trails weren't enough, there was a big hill that was totally muddy. For every step we took up, we slid back about 3 feet.  We were giggling uncontrollably but I finally went to the side and managed to get myself up.  Courtney, however, continued to giggle and ended up crawling up the hill on her hands and knees.  Needless to say, I made her strip down and cover herself with the blanket in my trunk before I would let her in my car. 

Cow
I tried to find cows last Sunday when I took a drive out to the Point Iroquois Lighthouse but they were all much too far away from the road to be helpful.  I tried taking pictures of the cow statues at Holy Cows Ice Cream Parlour but it was too dark so they just looked scary.  I also hoped the chocolate milk I bought today was from Lock City and had a cow on the carton but I was out of luck again.  This means that you have to think outside the box with me on this one.  Beef comes from cows, there is ground beef in the lasagna I made this afternoon, thus lasagna = cow.  Do you see my logic?

Fall
I attempted to take this photo last Sunday when I headed out to the Point Iroquois Lighthouse but there really wasn't much colour around it.  The white clouds caused the lighthouse to fade out in many of the photos too which was rather disappointing.  I took this first photo at Fort Creek again today.  I attempted to be creative and take a photo of the fallen leaves.

I feel like I should also include one of my lighthouse photos since I made the trek all the way out there and all.

Wildcard
Do you know how hard it is to choose a wildcard when you haven't taken many photos and the ones you have taken just aren't particularly striking?  You will never guess where this one was taken - Fort Creek!

Here's hoping I can get this week's photos done on time!  I think there is a bit of sun in the forecast so I will be optimistic...