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It’s the colour of blood. It’s the pride of Utah. It’s the nature of Betelgeuse. And it’s sorely missing from my daily life.
Vancouver is a kingdom of blues and greens - the changing blue of the ocean, the lush green of everpresent forests; the blues when it rains for too long, the greens that wanted peace.
Our municipal police colours reflect it. The Canucks abide it. The new West Coast theme at work proves it. Subdued colours, easy colours, passive colors. But where are the passion of reds, the warmth of oranges and the brilliance of yellows? Where is rebellion and what about fire?
I long for the orange glow of a sunset in Arches National Park, for lava flowing down the slopes of a raging volcano, for the red rocks of Canyonlands, for the pink hoodoos of Bryce at sunrise, for the infinite red rainbow of stone in Antelope Canyon, for the dark red wines of Napa Valley, for the blood-tainted soil of l’Estérel, for bright red tiles on the roofs of Provence...
I dream of a harsh and inhospitable Mars while standing on our lush and fluid Earth. What a contradiction! But never mind the grass; the rocks are always redder on the other side of the fence.
« Bonjour
Date of comment: 2007-04-30 04:10 •I don’t always understand your writing but this time you managed to put, with much talent, a whole universe of images and emotions in a nutshell and share them. Than you. No surprise your pictures are so good.
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« I don’t always understand your writing either
Date of comment: 2007-04-30 07:57 •Just kidding. Remember a time when you wondered whether you could really write in English? Hum, geez, I wonder too! »
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Date of comment: 2007-04-30 11:00 •being in full accordance with myself,
I imagine a raging volcano on our mountain
and a devastating lava extinguishing those stuck-up St-Hilairois.
What a sight from my window...
« Brigit: LOL. I’m glad I managed to be understandable this once. And if you think my pictures are good, imagine un peu ce qu’elles seraient dans un univers plein de rouge!
when they unleash an earthquake on Beloeil, epicenter at the Mail Montenach. I’m not sure y’all could survive without Tim Horton’s... 
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Date of comment: 2007-04-30 14:54 •Sigrid: M’enfin? I still wonder if I can write in English. Blogging is one thing, a whole book with page numbers and chapters and commas and periods and notes and illustrations and paragraphs and a plot and a bloody publisher backing you up is another... And on top of that, blogging is selfish while real writing is kind of philanthropic (see next post.)
Anonymous: Well, beware of the St-Hilairois’ regenge (they are indeed stuck-up
« Bonsoir
Date of comment: 2007-05-03 18:49 •Je ne sais pas pourquoi cette juxtaposition de deux univers m’a touchée. Peut-être parce que j’ai découvert récemment les romans de Toni Hillerman et que je venais justement de lire ses descriptions des levers ou couchers de soleil sur les Mesa du territoire Navajo. Lui aussi sait invoquer le rouge.
Bryce, Arches, Moab... l’Esterel... Saint Raphael... Vancouver. paysages familiers. quelle chance de pouvoir y revenir d’un clignement de paupières, quand bien même ce n’est que par la pensée.
je suis incapable d’imaginer un autre univers parce que je ne suis pas une artiste.
Simplement, j’aime vos photos.
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