Theme 17: Let's Go to the Beach!

No more beach time here until next year, but it's nice to think about it and anticipate the warm light, the sound of the sea, the sound of gulls arguing. Actually, I'm not near the sea, but I have an active imagination.

What Flower Are You?

For theme 16, Tesse, the site owner, asks us to think of ourselves as a flower. I have several favourites; pansies, the rose, the gerbera daisy, and wild violets. I chose the latter, because when my husband and I lived in our second house, I wrote a poem about the ones which visited our backyard every spring.

I googled them, and found that they're considered a weed by gardeners! Have our pestecided, artificially turfed yards blinded us to the beauty of wild things? If I had a house today, I'd plant my yard in wildflowers of different kinds, or simply let the wild violets take over. What a treat it would be to walk barefoot among them!

Two More Theme Pages

Here are my Journal pages for theme 14, Definition, and for theme 15, Black & White. The flowered pattern in the black background paper does not, unfortunately, show up well.

Theme 13: Pop-ups

I did part of this and the previous page while visiting my friend in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I've had the template for the pop-up flower pot for several years but had never used it. Thanks to Tesse, who comes up with each week's theme! Unfortunately, the scanner flattened out the flower pot, but it popped back up once the scanner lid was opened.

Theme 12: RED!

Red is one of my favorite colors, so this page was a delight to do. Note that even Mary Poppins loves red.

Theme 11: Newsprint

My eye was captured this week by pictures of famous Montréal and Québec City sites, side by side in the local newspaper, “Le Soleil” (The Sun). The headline above the pictures, included on my page, is “Eternal Rivals.”
The article posited that rivalry of the healthy kind is good. It’s usually the smaller city which keeps the rivalry going, declares "Le Soleil"; the larger one “s’en fout” (doesn’t even pay attention to it). The Media: Radio, television, and newspapers, all contribute to keeping the rivalry going.
Le Soleil quotes a Laval University (Québec City) professor as saying, “To use a larger city as a reference point can make life more stimulating and more exciting.”