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Labor Day weekend, and the canoes at the lake are being brought out of the water, for cleaning and storage over the winter. It'll be fall soon, the temperatures will slowly drop, the trees will turn colors, the lake will be filled with migratory waterfowl, but there won't be any canoes. Oh there will be fishing boats, brought there by avid fishermen. But when the canoes come up, it's a sure sign that fall is coming.
Fall is my favorite time of year. There's camping, weenie roasts, beautiful colors, and frost on the pumpkin (as they say). But it also brings with it a certain melancholy, a wistful remembrance of the past summer with all its life and vitality, and a dreadful looking forward to the bitterness of winter. It is the winter that I dislike the most. Cold and dormant, life buried within bundling layers, it is only good for fireplaces and blankets, reflecting on the past year, making plans for the next, and making sure that the freshness of spring has something to be compared to.
Yes, the canoes mean winter is coming. And so I took their picture, a tribute to summer. It was a great summer. One I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Tribal Canoe Journeys of Pacific Northwest Native American Tribes, a significant cultural event that takes place once a year.
The Puyallup Tribe of Washington State was the host tribe for 2018 for all the Canoes sent by other tribes along the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tribes all along the coast traveled via paddling their traditional Ocean Canoes, beautiful, functional and ornate! These Canoe teams traveled from as far as Alaska, including far stretches of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and far stretches of Oregon Coast. Paddling for 4 to 6 six hours a day, some for over ten days, battling ocean current, heat and sheer physical exhaustion.
Each Canoe was fitted with a GPS Transponder and its latest position was updated in 30min intervals in the Website : paddletopuyallup.org/
Canoeing past a shear basalt cliff on Lake Lenore in Eastern Washington I saw our shadow/reflection projected up onto the basalt cliff we were passing.
Wuramon, soul canoe with figures of turtles, birds and humans
Asmat people, Central Asmat region, south coast of West Papua
Mid C20th
Taken in Oceania
(September — December 2018)
The year is 1768, and Britain is in the throes of the Age of Enlightenment. As a group of artists agrees to found the Royal Academy, Captain James Cook sets sail on a voyage of discovery to track the transit of Venus and search for terra australis incognita – the unknown southern continent, as Europeans called it. What Cook and his crew encounter on arrival is a vast number of island civilisations covering almost a third of the world’s surface: from Tahiti in Polynesia, to the scattered archipelagos and islands of Melanesia and Micronesia.
The indigenous populations they met came with their own histories of inter-island trade, ocean navigation, and social and artistic traditions. This spectacular exhibition reveals these narratives – celebrating the original, raw and powerful art that in time would resonate across the European artistic sphere.
Oceania brings together around 200 exceptional works from public collections worldwide, and spans over 500 years. From shell, greenstone and ceramic ornaments, to huge canoes and stunning god images, we explore important themes of voyaging, place making and encounter. The exhibition draws from rich historic ethnographic collections dating from the 18th century to the present, and includes seminal works produced by contemporary artists exploring history, identity and climate change.
[Royal Academy]
In deepest dark Snodland the interpid explorers paddle their canoe across the Ocean at Leybourne Lakes. This lake is actually called The Ocean
Large canoe in the main hall of the Tulalip Tribes Hibulb Cultural Center. Note that the photos on the wall behind the canoe are copyrighted, so this version of the photo should not be reproduced commercially.
Background blurred: www.flickr.com/photos/jmabel/21503687385. Background removed: www.flickr.com/photos/jmabel/21315683730.
The canoe is now being painted. I've laid down 4 coats of 'Oxford Blue', and four coats of 'Cream'. At the moment the last coat of cream is drying so the masking tape is still in place. I also gave the foredeck its first coat of clear varnish too,
Still to do -
Paint a metalic bronze pinstripe between the blue and cream.
Touch up the black (graphite epoxy) on the bow.
Another four coats of varnish to the foredeck and gunwales, seat and kneeling thwarte.
Finish the inner hull after fitting an airtight bulkhead in the bow for additional floatation.