Hum … window shopping. It has been a long time. I do miss those days walking about Old Town, watching people stroll about, listening to a shopper play a public piano (Piano About Town art project), governing the impulse to buy, sitting out doors with a cappuccino, and most of all, walking about with camera in hand.
Why not join The World as I see it’s lens-artists challenge: window shopping
“… Roads take you somewhere you have not yet been or they bring you back to where you were. Some roads lead to the future, some to the past. Then he thought, That is not right. All roads do both. …” Susan Fromberg Schaefer, The Snow Fox . Pg. 182
Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.
People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
Cited: History.com
Double exposure is like a mystery bag, one never really knows what will come out of the camera.
How did this playground slide become Phantom of the Opera?
Yes indeed, patience is a bit tricky.
Hop on over to Wind Kisses to join this week’s photo challenge
What makes you laugh?
Me: What is the color of the wind?
Blew
Grandchild: Is it safe to assume that’s the winds favorite color too?
Utah Governor Signs New Laws to Protect Children From the Harms of Social Media Usage
Utah took aggressive steps on March 23, 2023 to rein in teens’ social media use when Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation designed to limit kids’ social media exposure, including a 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. curfew on social media use and age verification requirements.
East High students march on State Capitol and call for gun control a day after school shooting (March 23, 2023)
“We just buried Luis”: East High parents, students fume after another shooting and call for stricter security
Postscript
In 2019, authorities within CHINA restricted minors to playing 90 minutes a day on weekdays and banned them from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. In 2021, they issued restrictions in which minors are allowed to play online games for only an hour a day and only on Fridays, weekends and public holidays. Game approvals were halted for eight months.
A freshly-opened cherry bud … her lips upon the flute. She leans in the corner of the balcony: the night is chill, her silken robes are thin, her fingers cold . . . but music floats through the frosty woods and startled plums fall pattering down. ~Chang Hsien (Ed. various. The Jade Flute, The Project Gutenberg eBook)
The general sense impressions I have of “alone times” are moments of grief and loss as well as feelings similar to forlorn, isolated, lonely.
if there’s a house
standing alone, sure enough…
plum blossoms ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
I have often pondered a different sense of “alone” after learning of it’s origins; Middle English, “all one.”
“All one” speaks to me of a time of solitary; a sense of completion, wholeness, self-direction, and freedom.
Leya’s Alone Time
Patti invited lens-artists to explore diagonal lines in their creative work. The lines within an image guide the eye through the frame, carefully taking the viewer through the photograph. They also help to create depth, a sense of tension, and dynamism.
Image submitted in response to Becky’s (The Life of B) walking squares.
A day … a “before” day. A day blurred by time at the Fort Collins Museum of Art.
The Fort Collins Museum of Art (MoA) is located in the Old Post Office building in Old Town Fort Collins. The museum is housed in a three-story Second Renaissance Revival structure designed by James Knox Taylor, the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury.
Blurred images submitted for Amy’s (The World is a Book…) invitation: A day in my week
Patti (P.A. Moed) invites photographers to “show us your captures of street art in places near and far.”
a meditative journey 
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