A Stream in the Sky, Haiku, Photography, and Walk Wednesday with @tatoodjay
A Stream in the Sky
shaped and blown, glass uplifted
a stream in the sky
I remember as a child being amazed to learn that glass is melted sand and that our windows and mirrors behave as a liquid. With the milleniums, they will slowly melt and return to the earth. I look up on #walkwednesday to my city of tall modern buildings and realize above my head is a river of slow flowing sand. Vancouver and its talented architects have hefted a stream of glass to the sky. Pretty cool and sci-fi when you think abou it.
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Vancouver is a city that honors the natural surrounds. On the ground we endevour to incorporate the bounty of our forests.
It is salmon berry season. This wild fruit spans the warm end of the color spectrum, from red to yellow depending on light, water, ripeness, and soil. They have a delcious naturally sweet flavor, sometimes a little sour, sometimes a little bitter. I immortalized these two in digital before I ate them. Okay, before my son ate them. He knows when the going is good and with camera in hand, momma is not fast enough.
I will leave you with flowers from a florist's curb-side display. Not sure of their name but they remind me of begonias. Maybe they are related.
All photos are my own and taken on an Iphone 8 and edited in Iphoto and Preview.
A big thank you to @tattoodjay for being such a marvelous host to the tag:)
Brilliant juxtaposition skyscrapers and berries;
The blue disposable razor packet unopened
Stands aloft and anchored to the forest floor
Around the shocking blue shaft do coloured berries grow.
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And a great piece of response poetry:) Thank you, OZK:)
Nice pics and a lovely thoughtful haiku!
There is a town near to Liverpool called St Helens and their town Moto is: the home of glass 😂 Lol, glass is pretty much all st Helens has got going for it. But that's the reason I already knew glass was melted sand.
The metaphor you realzed, of a stream of sand in the sky, is awesome!
Thanks so much. Is this the place?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Helens,_Merseyside
St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens (pronunciation ) is a large town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 102,629. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, which had a population of 176,843 at the 2001 Census.St Helens is in the south west of the historic county of Lancashire, 6 miles (10 km) north of the River Mersey. The town historically lay within the ancient Lancashire division of West Derby known as a "hundred". It was created by incorporation as a municipal borough in 1868, bringing together the townships of Eccleston, Parr, Sutton and Windle, for administrative purposes.
Yes, that's the place 🙂👍
I spent a decent amount of time there as a teenager, as my friend went to a 6th form school there. I dated a girl in his 6th form school for a few years and used to tease her about St Helens being a crap version of Liverpool 😂
I had a laugh there though and it was a nice time in my life.
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Nice flower and its really talented architects photography
Thank you, Kam:)
Such gorgeous photos and a mix of manmade and nature :)
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :)
Thank you, JJ:)
most welcome :)
The blue skyscraper really stands out. Nice how you mixed the urban with nature. Your salmon berry looks like what we call a raspberry.
Thank you, Jo. Salmon berries are very different from raspberries in flavor. Perhaps they share an ancestry though:)