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Canada Day

No, it has not suddenly become autumn.  It is Canada Day and the maple leaf is Canada's well known symbol. 

It's a holiday and I have a day off.  Yeah!

Click to Play:
Barbecue - Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee
I Wanna Go Home - The Skiffle Sessions

We proudly walk.  An Island Walk

Canada Day

No, it has not suddenly become autumn.  It is Canada Day and the maple leaf is Canada's well known symbol. 

It's a holiday and I have a day off.  Yeah!

Click to Play:
Barbecue - Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee
I Wanna Go Home - The Skiffle Sessions

We proudly walk.  An Island Walk

comments (20)

Gorgeous color. Enjoy the day off!
Mary MacADNski: I surely need the day off and will certainly enjoy it.
  • Larry Bliss
  • Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
  • 1 Jul 2008, 02:33
Hope you take some more fine pictures on your day off, Mary.
Mary MacADNski: I do hope so too. It's a bit overcast but I'm hoping the sun comes out and if it does....
A leaf that was beautiful became the symbol of the country Canada. Amzing...
Regards From Yogyakarta Indonesia.
Mary MacADNski: Our other symbol is a rodent - the beaver. I'll take the maple leaf.
  • ray
  • Thailand
  • 1 Jul 2008, 03:10
Not ready to let go just yet!
This image is a celebration of the great outdoors, Mary. Love it!
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Ray, though I've just discovered you've seen it before. Suby and Sinem remembered it. I didn't. Could have chosen from many others.
  • Kay
  • United States
  • 1 Jul 2008, 04:21
Happy Canada Day, Mary! I hope you had a wonderful day.

I like the leaf against the sky.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Kay. I started it well - I slept in.
Lovely (have we seen this image before somewhere?)
Mary MacADNski: You have a better memory than I do. I just went back through the early archives and there it was. I have so many others to choose from too.....
Happy Canada Day!
Beautiful shot.
Mary MacADNski: Happy Canada Day to you too, Michael. Have a fun day in your new home.
  • Astrid
  • The Netherlands
  • 1 Jul 2008, 06:29
Happy Canada Day, will there be any fireworks in the park??
I was in Winnipeg in 1987 and there was an enormous firework in the park.
Love the shape/colours of the leaf.
Mary MacADNski: Charlottetown is the birthplace of Canada so the federal gov. gives us a ton of money. With the provincial and municipal money added in, we have the largest display of fireworks in Canada.
  • vintage
  • Australia
  • 1 Jul 2008, 09:35
Excellent capture of colour
Mary MacADNski: Autumn is a great time to be here for colour.
  • Chantal
  • Netherlands
  • 1 Jul 2008, 11:47
great falling sunlight here
Mary MacADNski: It looks like a cool crisp day.
Happy Canada Day Mary!
Superb shot.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Richard. I like this shot too.
  • Kathryn
  • in my beloved south
  • 1 Jul 2008, 14:27
Happy Canada Day. Send me a little maple syrup?
Mary MacADNski: Ha! My son emptied my half gallon this week - that came from Vermont!
  • Ginnie
  • a WiFi hotspot in Atl without dial tone at home
  • 1 Jul 2008, 15:22
HAPPY Canada Day, Mary. We'll follow suit a couple days later, as you know. I LOVE Canada's maple leaf symbol. I grew up with maple trees in Michigan and feel very "close" to Canada. smile
Mary MacADNski: On July fourth, I'll put some special music for you on The Island Walk.
Happy Canada Day, Mary.
Les couleurs sont superbes.
Marvelous !!!
Mary MacADNski: Merci, Fabrice.
  • Bill Phillips
  • Droitwich..warm and a bit muggy!
  • 1 Jul 2008, 19:59
When I walk the hills so high around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away though I was there just yesterday

I have played on my guitar in coffeehouses, halls and bars
Everyone that I call friend knows they will not be forgot

Trains and planes and rented cars, singers, saints, and other stars
I suspect them everyone, they'll never change it's too much fun

Just for now I'd like to rest in the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there

When I stand on my own sod it feels so good to be home, by God
The winter wind has turned my head but I always came up warm somehow

Bottles, beads, and cigarettes and lovers that I ain't found yet
Picking with a friend til dawn, singing all those hi'way songs

Just for now I'd like to rest in the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky I'll say a prayer for the world out there

When I walk the hills so high around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away though I was there just yesterday

I would travel all my life if loneliness was not the price
Heading north across that line's the only time I'm flying

Happy Canada Day Mary
Mary MacADNski: Oh, please Bill, tell me where this is from. I so appreciate this.
Just lovely Mary. I love the sunlight coming through the leaves. Maybe I'll get a shot as good when I am there in September. smile
Mary MacADNski: I have that song, Too Hot To Sleep, and it is here too.

Where in Canada are you going?
O Canada! Blue skies and vibrant slightly see-through maple leaves make this a lovely capture.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Karima. Your celebration come soon too.
  • Gingeybaby
  • Stealing time while Floog\\\'s on the PS3
  • 2 Jul 2008, 19:47
Hi Mary,

My sister and her family live in Sidney on Vancouver Island. We are also going to squeeze in a trip to Vegas while we are there. Just can't wait!

Wherabouts in Canada are you?
Mary MacADNski: I'm on the east coast in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward island. It is nestled in alongside New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
I've emailed it to you...let me know if you don't receive it
Mary MacADNski: My goodness, it's been a long time since I heard that Lightfoot song.
hiya! i just had an overall look at your archive and was admiring how much natural beauty you seem to be surrounded by...and then I realised...you live on PEI!!!!that is THE ONE place I've always wanted to visit...

p.s I like maple leaves but I'm more curious to see a beaver...(I've only ever seen cartoon depictions...)
Mary MacADNski: I have a photo of a beaver run but didn't see a beaver that day. Reply to this and I'll have your e-mail. If I ever come across a beaver I will put it on SC and e-mail you a notification.

I have an Aussie friend (Canberra) coming for a visit in October. Jump in her suitcase.

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