Hope Blooms eternal...

Yes, I'll even take the ' forced plant' blooms to help get me through this winter.
This Amaryllis was a gift from my work group post surgery...and it bloomed for 2 weeks +...... nice against the white back drop...

These 2 love-birds...often snuggle like this...and of course place their gift of hair...on my blanket..that I use on those chilly evenings .... Willow has taken to sitting cross legged now...

Enjoyed a lovely TIFF weekend in my own home town....this weekend!
It's called the "Owen Sound Reel Festival" and we saw... 5 fine films, were able to also attend after receptions, and had a lovely breakfast this morning before the 1st film at East side Mario's. (all included in the pass)

Thanks Gwynda for thinking of us...and sharing your "pass" tickets!!!

Films we saw were:
- Lars and the Real Girl... excellent non judgemental transitional story
- Shake hands with the Devil.. Rwandan genocide and Romeo Dallaire's account, very well done
- Caramel... Excellent portrayl..Beirut angle of women surviving..and how they use the
caramel for beauty
- The Great Debaters..1935 perspective based on true story...Texas college students learn to defend their heritage and succeed through much adversity.
- The Bodybuilder and I... I wasn't going to see this one...then thought why not..and was very pleased that I went. A journey of a son trying to figure out his father who he really only just met at age 26... it was a forgiveness movie and the son's insight is far beyond his fathers.

Saturday night at the movies producer, Risa Shuman was the guest speaker and I did learn some interesting things from her..somewhat L O N G...explanations... it could have be a shorter "chat" time...for me.

Went on a tour of the projection room of the Galaxy theatres and that was very interesting. They use 20mm film that come to town in a 14" roll...then the projectionist needs to move them to platter like discs that are roughly 3' across... then strings the film through a series of guides ..much like the sewing machine route!... I was surprised to see that so much manual prep was still needed... they've even rigged up a ceiling guide that will permit...1 viewing of the film at 2pm...say..in one theatre...then in the next theatre over...at 215pm..the same film...runs across the ceiling and into the next projector for this theatre...and that way 1 film...is only needed.. (for big crowds) quite inventive.
One guy runs all the 9 theatres!

My weekend ...