Park Bench

A nice place to sit and forget your cares and worries...and your coffee mug!

I went out this afternoon with a phtographer friend of mine and we drove around the city to a few different locations looking for something to photograph.

There wasn't much around, and it was pretty sunny. The trees are all starting to change to their fall colour of yellow...and the fields looked yellow as well.

One thing I miss from the east coast is the beautiful fall foliage - the reds, oranges...and even the yellows (though they seem to be a different vibrancy than here). We don't have maple trees way up here in northern BC, and I definitely don't like that. However, those trees aren't suitable for this type of climate I guess (harsh winters).

This photo is obviously a park bench, and it's in one of the little parks in the middle of the city. Sadly, the flowers from the summer have pretty much disappeared, but there were a few. I wish there had been some in bloom around this bench...would have looked nicer, but I still like this photo.

Just before snapping this shot, I noticed someone had forgot to take their coffee mug with them so I left that in the shot...thought it might add some character to photo.

Grain Sack



Grain sack in the shadows

 This is a photo from a trip not too long ago to the Peace River area of Alberta. We stopped at a little information place which was in an old train station. It was a small building, but it was also made into a little museum, which was quite nice. There were displays of items used way back when (I'm not sure of the dates, possibly late 1800s), and even a section with a sign telling that it was the ladies waiting room. The sign went on to say that it was an area where single women who were travelling could go and wait for their train and be able to feel safe.

In another room, they had other items on display - an operator's "station", various old items, an old bicycle, sled, snow shoes...and lots more. In a section that was roped off, there was a nice little display and there were grain sacks stacked up.

I liked the way the sun was shining in through the window, dust particles floating in the air, and how only part of this particular grain sack had the shadow of the window frame and the sunlight falling on it.  It might not be a great photo, or anything particularly fascinating, but I liked it. And that's why I took the photo.