Photo of the Week 2019-12-30

memories from a day with a friend

Sorry, no photographic inspiration this week ... just snapshot memories.

Yesterday I learned that a very good friend and mentor lost his brief battle with cancer and I'm feeling deflated. When I received the news, I went to a favourite watering hole from back in the day when we worked together and ordered a pint of Guinness. It's what I would have done back then when we went there to talk business and sort things out ...

I got thinking about many of the times we had together over more than 32 years. During that time, a boss became a mentor, then became a great friend and confidant. I will miss him dearly.

DJE

Photo of the Week 2018-12-31

A lovely stone house once stood on this location ... that is until a troubled soul decided to torch it along with numerous other structures in the Guelph-Eramosa-Puslinch-Erin area. 

It has been demolished and a favoured subject for my lens is no more ...

phantom homestead

I had visited this location a number of times, always keeping a respectful distance. In the beginning, it looked as if someone might still be living there. Then later the windows were boarded up.

And then the unthinkable ... it was torched.

Twice an image of this quaint stone structure graced a page in my annual calendar ... and I suspect it may again for the 2020 edition.

First an image from 2012 when I caught it sitting ever so peacefully in the mist...

Next from 2017 after I learned that it had succumbed to flame and freshly boarded windows made it look as if the lights were still on ...

A suspect has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of arson, but not for the fire that destroyed this favoured subject. In all over 20 suspicious fires were recorded through 2016,17,18 and several other structures that I had enjoyed photographing no longer stand

from Guelph Mercury October 30, 2017

What a shame ...

DJE

One Last Walk

On the day before I lay you to rest,
I asked you to come with me in spirit as we took one last walk,
That walk we were planning to do,
Now that spring sun had replaced winters chill.

the sun shone, 

we saw butter cups,
heard birds sing 

I shed tears and felt you with me

As you go now to be with dad, know you have my everlasting love and thanks for everything
...and for one last walk.

Doug