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by Marja-Leena seeds of time
If you can look into the seeds of time…
– Wm. Shakespeare: Macbeth)
An hour’s study of nature is a year’s worth of prayer.
– Prophet Mohammed
by Marja-Leena leaf study
Delighting in the colours and patterns of tiny found leaves, I’ve been playing with them on the scanner. How thrilling to see the fine veins and hairs in the huge enlargements on the monitor, and how very disappointing to not be able to share them here in that size and resolution.
by Marja-Leena walls
worn out walls
signs of the past
portents of the future?
(continuing photo series of the Britannia Shipyard in Steveston)
by Marja-Leena big green caterpillar
On a recent walk around our neighbourhood, we spotted this brilliantly coloured BIG caterpillar moving slowly along the street. We’d never seen one like it. Husband picked it up gently with a leaf while I found a discarded takeout cup in which to carry it home, showing it off to some young children we passed by. At home, husband took many photos and I googled for its name.
It looks like it may be a Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar – Antheraea polyphemus, which transforms into a giant tan colored silk moth with an average wingspan of 6 inches (15 cm)!
Oh, and what happened to our captive? Husband put it back in the cup with leaves and a blackberry and placed it under the brambles just outside the corner of our yard. The next morning, the leaf and the caterpillar were gone. We hope it survived and metamorphosed into that lovely moth. I would have liked to have seen that moth.
by Marja-Leena artifacts
more images taken at the old Britannia Shipyard in Steveston
by Marja-Leena windows
Last Saturday we drove daughter Elisa, J, our granddaughters and piles of luggage to the airport. They are off to Europe to work and travel until Christmas. My, the house is quiet now with just the three of us!
As we often do when we drive somewhere farther, and it being a gorgeous day, and we were already in Richmond (where the airport is), we decided to have an outing. It had been many years since we had been to the fishing village of Steveston, on the southernmost edge of Richmond (a city south of Vancouver). We were surprised to find how much this has been developed, with the old Britannia Shipyard now a national historic site, and lovely walks on top of the dike leading to the lively Fisherman’s Wharf where we indulged in fresh seafood while sitting on a sunny patio watching crowds shopping for fish straight off the boats.
So, lots of photos to show you (starting with the locked doors) for I went camera happy over the interesting old shipyard and the fishing boats.
See the other photos in this series:
locked doors
artifacts
walls
if walls could speak
by Marja-Leena locked doors
Yesterday at the old shipyards in Steveston, BC (more details to come later).
Sept 10th update: see next post.
Much later: more from the Old Britannia Shipyard here:
artifacts
walls
if walls could speak
by Marja-Leena more steps
Steps for big people.
Compare to the steps for little people.
Non-organic vs organic. Industry vs play.