This is my first time with a blog so bear with me. This week has been somewhat hectic, with my supervisor leaving for China for 60 days while I'm trying to finish my research! However, I know what needs to be done, so a bit less photography and a bit more work.
Speaking of photography, I have been playing around a little with church architecture after a visit to a wonderful church in Lunenburg. It was almost completely destroyed five years ago, and the congregation rebuilt it completely in four years. It is pretty on the outside, but the interior is sheer bliss, with warm wood tones, gentle yellow light, and in a style called Carpenter Gothic. The church is St. John's Anglican, the congregation has been in continuous existence since 1753, and the church has slowly evolved over the centuries. A large part of the original congregation was German and Protestant-French, and I think this comes through in the architecture. I almost felt like I was in the Black Forest. Also, Lunenburg has had a long history with shipbuilding and the fisheries on the Scotian Shelf and the Grand Banks, and some of this has been imparted into the church.
The weather here has been unusually good, while at home in St. John's they've been pasted with Sheilagh's Brush, and with days of persistent Northerly winds, flurries, freezing drizzle and rain, but yesterday it let up a bit. Despite all this the Avalon has had temperatures above normal for January through March. Life is always interesting at home.
Hello, hello! Is there anybody in there? Clap if you can hear me. Anyone at all.
Or something like that. Welcome to the world of the blog. It’s sort of like falling off a cliff. It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end. Unless the end is a great big trampoline that bounces you up again, in which case a cosmic toddler will scoop you up and ask its mommy if it can keep you.
For further details, see the classic Trek episode “The Squire of Gothos.”
Blogging does this to you. Oddly enough, I’ve never noticed that much change in my daily life. I got cosmic-toddler scooped a long time ago.
Cheers!
Walcom, Walcom, Walcom! It’s about time everyone else got a chance to hear what you have to say.
John, blogging does not “do this” to you. You’ve been comically insane for quite a few years now, all on your own.
So who's Squire Trelane in this analogy, and more important, who are the parents?
Thanks for the welcome, and I'll try to be in (total) coherence as much as possible.
Cheers back (It's my favourite salutation, which is interesting since I have only had 1 drink in my life, when I fell off the wagon). I guess I'm a recovering alcoholic.
Cheers again!
John’s comment is a classic example of why friends should not let friends drog blunk.
Of course, with John, it’s sometimes hard to tell….
An interesting blog you have there