Rainbows are pretty, happy, enchanting things…
so its nice to see them as public art around town.
A few on crosswalks.
And now on a staircase… of a church no less.
Each time I see a rainbow its a surprise & delight.
Wouldn’t it be cool it they became common-place?
Life can benefit from more whimsy.
🙂
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I risked life, limb & bicycle when I stopped in the middle of Dallas Road the other day to get this photo of street art. Wouldn’t it be neat to meet the whimsical public worker brave enough to create it?
More & more often the streets in Victoria are showing the influence of creative & open-minded thinking. I first spied this funky crosswalk through the windows of a transit bus. The compulsion to get a photo was so strong, I had to get off the bus. This time my self-preservation instinct kicked in, so I remained safely on the curb for the shot.
This past summer, a rainbow crosswalk decorated the street in front of City Hall for Pride Week. The University of Victoria painted one on Ring Road, just outside the Student Union building. It seems to be holding up well even though a couple of months have passed.
When I was out to Long Beach for Thanksgiving, I was delighted to see the trend had spread to Tofino. Several crosswalks along the main drag show off the town’s artistic bent.
Surfing is a big deal out there, so it makes sense they produced an homage to the wave. My favorite is the wave made by swapping the black & white stripe placement to show off the wave pattern. Another that changed the regular shape of the crosswalk to form the wave is pretty cool, too.
Even better is the crosswalk that the fish are swimming through.
Now that’s groovy.
🙂
But all this makes me wonder…
Are we just a bunch of creative hippies out here on the west coast?
Or are other places on board with this fun?
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Woo-hoo!!
This year our grape-vine has produced grapes! It’s thrilling.
Most years we get 1 or 2 clusters of teeny-tiny grapes… and honestly, I thought that it was just the way this particular variety of grape made fruit.
Nope.
Whatever variety of grape this is, it is capable of producing a wonderfully sweet, juicy eating grape.
When I picked my first cluster, he weight of it astounded me. I just had to check it out on the kitchen scale – –
2.5 pounds !!!
Can you believe it?
And they’re tasty, too!
Now it would be nice to know what we did differently this year…
Was it because C didn’t winter prune the vine as hard as he usually does?
… or because we had an especially sunny summer?
… or because there was less competition for water & nutrients in the planting bed this year?
Perhaps there’s a good reason this area is marketed as the Wine Islands.
Cheers 🙂
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Garden Variety Life 