UNDER MY UMBRELLA AND BEYOND: Love The Planet Productions
This photographic journal is by Maria Pavlik, co-creator of With My Umbrella, I Can: The Magical Journey of Penelope Puddle, in B.C., CANADA. "With camera in hand and often an umbrella, I explore everyday wonders of the planet that is not merely a backdrop but our lifeline."
Sometimes the sky is so wide I feel I could fly way up high (as the song goes) past the clouds with the ease of a bluebird. But such imaginings are only in my mind's eye.
Though my thoughts have wings, I am less a bird and more like a curious cat slinking amid the shrubbery to see what is afoot and lurking in the sun and shadows.
I pause at the wonders of the natural world of which I am an infinitesimal part.
Unlike the ornamental peacock more or less stuck to one place, I am for the most part content to simply wander about on this whirling dot while "out there" and "in here" cosmic marvels, both seen and invisible to me, are animated and soaring.
I am excited to know that somewhere over the rainbow not just birds but all sorts of mercurial things, now even Penelope, CAN fly in this magical moment of existence.
The statue of a man waiting for the train at the foot of the White Rock Museum and former train station does not ponder the sky as I frequently do. And although it is cloudy, not starry, the horizon and recent posting of my Van Gogh experience inspired a poem for the What's Going On prompt, " ... what is unchanging, what can we count on, or what do we hope is timeless or everlasting?" For me curiosity about the true nature of existence is everlasting and resulted in these few words:
