PLEASE bookmark this page and check daily.
Older Blog: https://cuencaupdates.blogspot.com/
Please see my best artworks for sale at my websites:
http://souvenirphotostudio.neocities.org/
or https://pixels.com/profiles/al-bourassa
******
I slept in late, getting up just in time for Bob's usual noon phone call. He was trying to decide what we should do today and I was to call him at 1pm. I was mostly through my chores and I had called him 7 times, only getting his voice mail...
Around 2pm, I was heading out the door to check on him when Cristina WhatsApped me about taking an injured abandoned small older cat to the vet for a check-up. Its back legs are swollen and not working. They will need x-rays after the blood work. Something tells me we will be inheriting a 4th cat... Cristina thinks it is about 7 years old.
I was sitting by the door still when Bob finally called me back. He had fallen asleep after taking his Ozempic and was not feeling like going out....
It was 23C, nice, but windy, and I decided I needed to get out anyway. The Edmonton Folk Festival was still in progress but I was sure that I had missed Darla and Matt's set today. I was sure that the Festival had been held previous years at Kinsmen Park, below the High Level Bridge. On the way I went through Ezio Faraone Park and saw some beautiful flowers and bees so the D5600 took a few shots.
Nothing was happening at Kinsmen, so I continued to the MacDonald Hotel Funicular to see if I could see or hear anything coming from Gallagher Park, where it said online that the sold-out Festival was happening... Well, it looked pretty dead to me, but there was music and Spanish being spoken over loudspeakers behind me on Jasper Avenue so I went to check it out. I thought it might be another Caribbean parade but there seemed to be only one huge loudspeaker truck leading a single group of scantily-clad Jamaicans...
So I got away from there and called Bob and met him inside his apartment lobby. From there, we took the elevator down to the parkade so he could show me where the office said we could park my scooter temporarily, but we had to use the elevator for access, not the ramp! Well that was a non-starter because of the size of my Gio, and the corners that would take forever to navigate.... We checked access to the ramp and that would be possible, using Bob's building access fob... So it looks like I will be parking my Gio in the common room downstairs here while they re-surface the garage floor in 6 days, hoping to be completed in 2 weeks... Nobody here is holding their breath as they will probably have to deal with plumbing in the concrete too....
So I processed today's pictures today from the RAW files, changed to DNG files, processed in Topaz AI and finished off in PhotoShop.... I have to say that I am thrilled with the results of the flowers and bees pics, so I hope you agree and enjoy the pictures. It is this stupid Blogger program that is now always glitchy when uploading the pics. I have to do max 6 or 7 at a time...
That was the day’s excitement.
Al
******
© All my work is COPYRIGHT protected and may not be used in any way without purchase, or without my permission.
If you want to borrow a picture to share with family and friends, Facebook or whatever, at least PLEASE give me credit for the photo.
NOTE that you may click on any photo for an ENLARGED VIEW.
 |
| At Ezio Faraone Park |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| This art is near the Legislature |
 |
| Those are Jamaican flags |
 |
| One parking spot by the elevator |
 |
| 2 more spots very close too |
