Earth Day or Toronto ugly

      I go on photo.net site pretty often. It's like YouTube for my younger daughter, I guess. I like to look at  the pictures. Some of them inspire me, comments  teach me to notice much more... I feel a little jealous, when I see gorgeous sunsets of Newfoundland or proud coolness of Rocky Mounties. My scene of action is all around my apartment building. Don't take me wrong. I enjoy it very much, because I take a pride to see and to find beauty in a little corner, squeezed in between Don Valley Park Way and Lawrence Avenue. It has everything - a small park with a historic building (which is under reconstruction for ever, but it's a different story), Don River with a few bridges, a little swamp with different birds, insects, animals, wild flowers, beautiful spring and autumn colours and.... a lot of garbage along the highway, along the river - everywhere.
      This is the footprint we leave. We, people.  Individuals, that walk and travel in the cars of all kind, noticing nothing and caring about nothing, throwing bags, bottles, cups - everything one can think of. It's all there, -  just get off that car once, walk along, get embarrassed. Organizations, that do all kind of constructions and repairs ( could be easily qualified as an organised crime, by the way)  - they leave not only all mentioned above, but wires, a lot of metal, nets, plastic bags... We, who like very much to scream about our rights, to complain about the weather, unhealthy environment,  - I guess, everybody knows what I am talking about, -we deserve, what we are facing - the nature strikes back, and will do it  harder and harder... And if we don't get it, one day we will all die, suffocated by our own dirt and disposals.  We have to understand, that we don't live in some TV show "How dirty is your house", and a rescue team won't come and clean it for us, leaving a tidy ,fresh and beautiful place to live in. We have to do it ourselves.
     As for the Government, they have to figure it out how to reorganize our schools so they could teach  the kids right things. Because sex is obviously a very interesting subject, but it shouldn't be the only one.   When they grow up, they will have to know that they have to clean up after finishing doing something. If they don't  - they will have to pay. Big fines. And get fired, or sued for crime against the nature.
 By the way, is there such law - crime against nature?
        Now, look, what I saw today, The Earth Day...

    I didn't see the the construction workers cleaning after themselves....

Photography and Philosophy

....I was reading today the Roland Barthes's philosophy and ideas... It looks like I kind of share his view on some things,( literally, things). He named it Mythology. I don't think I could call myself his follower, but I do share his view on things, everyday things that surround us in our lives. Of course he was a philosopher and looked at it really deeply, making big conclusions (with which I wouldn't disagree). For me it's just in that part that we shouldn't take every THING for granted. We have to enjoy and see the beauty in every THING that is around us, because there is a meaning why this or that thing is there and it can communicate a lot . I guess that's what I see through my view finder ,and try to take a picture of . When I look at my pictures all together  - they are not bright and festive, the colour (collective) is kind of calm and may be boring, and there is no much action in them too... But something from inside drives me to take a picture of little, unimportant, dull things - some simple stalk of grass, or faded flower, or petal, or just a spoon, glass of water..Later I delete the picture, thinking,  that it's just a snap, nothing interesting. And I do it again and again later. It made me think, why. I would say, that I would like to see myself or to show the importance of that "unimportant" thing. When it happens, I feel really good. And all this is kind of subconsciously.... Isn't it interesting to analyze ourselves?

Enjoy the spring!

      10 days of April are almost gone. The weather is not stable - from  - 12 to  +19 ( will be tomorrow). And though that wicked animal promised an early spring as long ago as March 2d, nobody took him seriously - just like some politician's public speech. Smart animal! I guess, during all that procedure of trying to wake him up, his only wish was to go back to sleep. So to do that he just "said" what everybody wanted to hear. Imagine yourself in his shoes - wouldn't you do the same just to be left alone and to enjoy the last sweet moments of your sleep? 

 So, my friends, we just have to be patient and enjoy what we have. I do. Every moment I have, I go out and just walk around my building. Not much of a park, but there are trees in a romantic mood, and birds, singing songs of love and joy, and squirrels, chasing each other... There are a lot of dogs, walking their owners on a leash... ( who would walk them otherwise?), and beautiful sunsets. There is time to think and watch... And I am grateful again that I have a camera. My husband is happy to support my edge to go to take pictures. But I wouldn't go alone. I would need a dog...  or a camera...

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