What a difference a day makes! Yesterday was a cold but lovely late fall day in Montreal's Lafontaine Park, today it was snowy, wet & colder. #park#Montreal#Canada#autumn#snow
This is still one of my favorite winter pictures. In Beijing during the pandemic, one of the few places you were allowed to go to in public were there many parks. So when it snowed, I asked a friend what was open and would look good in the snow. He was a local tour guide I had been teaching photography to and said the Summer Palace was open. So, hoped in a cab (no subway at that time) and met him.
On a warm summer day, she grabbed her book and headed to the park. In a quiet, isolated spot, she lay down in the grass and spent hours absorbed in a world of interest and intrigue, one that inspired thought and wonder, and not fear.
This purple petunia amid the marigolds caught my eye. Most of the other petunias are in a line between 2 dense columns of white marigolds. This one stepped out of line. Love how shiny it looks after the earlier rain too. #park#walk#BloomScrolling#FlowersOfMastodon
It's very hot here in Florida right now, but we've been able to get to the Little Lake Manatee State Park down the street a few times when it gets cloudy. A breeze also helps!
May the artwork take you to a tranquil place and a quiet time, so still that you can hear the trickle of water cascading down the rocks at the Emerald Pools.
Prepping photos for the next #travel write-up on my site, digging into some of the phone photos taken when we visited the Garden Society of Gothenburg, and this rainbow-coloured bench really stood out so I figured, why not share it?
Bryce is a magical, unusual, fascinating place. May the artwork take you to this unique landscape, where you can immerse yourself in its beauty, wildness, and silence.
As many as 180,000 people would gather to light candles in #Victoria#Park to remember June 4th 1989,
when China’s army brought a bloody end to weeks of peaceful pro-democracy protests in Beijing.
(China has never put a figure on the number who died in what it terms a counter-revolutionary incident.)
Hong Kong’s vigils became a symbol of #defiance of mainland authority
and an ardent evocation of the city’s #independence.
“It was magnificent,” says one resident. “We wanted to make [the massacre] known, not just in Hong Kong, but throughout the world.”
🔥 Organising such a vigil would be unthinkable now.
The commemoration was #banned in 2020, ostensibly because of covid-19.
Some 20,000 people gathered anyway.
The following month the central government in Beijing imposed a draconian national-security law on the territory,
a response to large pro-democracy protests in 2019.
The authorities have since snuffed out memories of Tiananmen.
Memorials have been removed.
The commemoration’s organisers have been jailed;
-- in March they lost a bid to overturn their conviction.
Wearing black or lighting candles near Victoria Park on June 4th may now be considered criminal activity.
This year, like the last, the park is filled with food trucks instead of candles.
Pro-Beijing groups have organised a carnival in the vigil’s stead.
I’m in London this week. In Victoria Park in Hackney the greenery is reaching its peak. The verdant nature of these boldly planted and laid out parks is key to providing the ‘lungs of London’.
You can read more about the Park in the ALT below…
Oze, Japan National Park in the fall