Winter’s Tail-end …

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1 Buttertown Home - Fort Vermilion, Alberta 2

1 Buttertown Home – Fort Vermilion, Alberta 2

2 Buttertown Home - Fort Vermilion, Alberta 1

2 Buttertown Home – Fort Vermilion, Alberta 1

3 Farm Buildings - Guy, Alberta 1

3 Farm Buildings – Guy, Alberta 1

4 Farm Buildings - Guy, Alberta 3

4 Farm Buildings – Guy, Alberta 3

5 Farm Buildings - Guy, Alberta 4

5 Farm Buildings – Guy, Alberta 4

6 Farming Buildings - Nampa, Alberta 2

6 Farming Buildings – Nampa, Alberta 2

7 Farming Buildings - Nampa, Alberta 1

7 Farming Buildings – Nampa, Alberta 1

8 Ford & Mercury Trucks 1

8 Ford & Mercury Trucks 1

9 Ford & Mercury Trucks 2

9 Ford & Mercury Trucks 2

10 Icicle - Tompkins Landing 1

10 Icicle – Tompkins Landing 1

11 Icicle - Tompkins Landing 2

11 Icicle – Tompkins Landing 2

12 Icicle - Tompkins Landing 3

12 Icicle – Tompkins Landing 3

13 Icicle - Tompkins Landing 4

13 Icicle – Tompkins Landing 4

14 Icicle - Tompkins Landing 5

14 Icicle – Tompkins Landing 5

15 Icicle - Tompkins Landing 6

15 Icicle – Tompkins Landing 6

16 Black and White - Cattails, High Level, Alberta

16 Black and White – Cattails, High Level, Alberta

17 Former Highway Construction Vehicles 1

17 Former Highway Construction Vehicles 1

18 Former Highway Construction Vehicles 2

18 Former Highway Construction Vehicles 2

19 Bus Lanes at Night - High Level, Alberta

19 Bus Lanes at Night – High Level, Alberta

A cluster of B-side photos remain – Fort Vermilion’s former times Buttertown homes, winter farming scenes (equipment and buildings, deposited in their last left locations, ‘medias res’), icicle lens edits and former MacKenzie highway construction vehicles. It’s this winter’s tail-end, a time to close winter out … and get-on with spring.

Listening to – Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians’ ‘What I am,’ U2’s ‘All Because of You,’ Cat Stevens’ ‘Morning Has Broken,’ Depeche Mode’s ‘Policy of Truth,’ T. Rex’s ‘Bang a Gong,’ Wang Chung’s ‘Dance Hall Days’ and Neil Young’s ‘Cinnamon Girl.’

Quote to Inspire – “Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.” – Anonymous

Collected, Not Yet Discarded – Other Photographs from the Week

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Farms, farm buildings, farm equipment and the occasional treasure of a rusting relic have surfaced within this week’s compiling of photographs.  Rather than let them fall into the discard pile it may be good to give them their due, cluster them into photo gallery format and allow you a look at second, third and even seventh choices.  Below, because this week’s photographs have dealt with farming images, I’m posting the lyrics to Murray MacLauchlan’s Farmer’s Song, a treat to sing and a song that you can find yourself singing with others also around a campfire. Lyrics as found on Lets Sing It http://artists.letssingit.com/murray-mclauchlin-lyrics-farmers-song-2s98rgh#ixzz1nMbsXNcE

Farmer’s Song – Murray McLauchlan

Re-released 9 October 2007 in Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan

Dusty old farmer out working your fields

Hanging down over your tractor wheels

The sun beatin’ down turns the red paint to orange

And rusty old patches of steel

There’s no farmer songs on that car radio

Just cowboys, truck drivers and pain

Well this is my way to say thanks for the meal

And I hope there’s no shortage of rain

 

Straw hats and old dirty hankies

 Moppin’ a face like a shoe

Thanks for the meal here’s a song that is real

 From a kid from the city to you

 

The combines gang up, take most of the bread

Things just ain’t like they used to be

Though your kids are out after the American dream

And they’re workin in big factories

Now If I come on by, when you’re out in the sun

Can I wave at you just like a friend

 These days when everyone’s taking so much

There’s somebody giving back in

 

Straw hats and old dirty hankies

Moppin’ a face like a shoe

Thanks for the meal here’s a song that is real

From a kid from the city to you

Quote to Inspire – “Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything.” – Leonard Misone

Listening to – She Walks on Roses by Bill Mallonee & Vigilantes of Love from Audible Sigh, then Mercy of the Fallen by Dar Williams from Beauty of the Rain and then finally Red Clay Halo by Gillian Welch from Time the Revelator.