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Travel Theme: Bright

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Part of a 7 foot canvas shaped like the continent of Africa

Even the hard to roust Miss Z is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning with the end of Daylight Savings Time and the arrival of the first few snowflakes twirling aimlessly down from grey skies. The gorgeous brilliant colours of summer are asleep until next year but those of us who live in the darker northern climes tend to bring them inside to illuminate the long days.  The painting above hangs in the stairwell: at first it raged at us with its boldness, now we are used to it enlivening an otherwise dull bit of space. Changing with the light and season, this piece of art becomes a part of the  Travel Theme: Bright portfolio.

Travel Theme: Couples

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Cheers!

Across the Bored dedicates Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Couples to our ancestors.  In a case of true love’s triumph over language and culture in a time when the world put up barriers rather than removing them, these two forged a bond so strong that it would last them a lifetime. They were inextricably intertwined, and as clichéd as it may sound, they lived for each other…

Travel theme: On Display

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Definitely not no-name…

Whatever happened to the art of illustration on packaging?  In this day of clips, bits, feeds and sound bites perhaps many eyes cannot fully appreciate the beauty and complexity of labelling that is not generic.  Where’s my backpack’s Travel Theme: On Display gives us the perfect forum to change that…

Travel theme: Animals

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I know you are doing something interesting

No matter where we go, when we are home, this face is sure to follow.  He reads like an open book; sometimes it is a mystery, or a comedy and there are even days when he plays all the characters in a tale of horror but it always ends up a love story.

Celebrate beastie beauty with Where’s my backpack’s challenge Travel theme: Animals!

Travel theme: Foliage

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One stretch away from dessert

Who knew photo challenges could be addictive? By Saturday night, we were wondering whether the universe had left us out of the loop and put out a wordpress query asking as much. Lo and behold, an answer did come out of the ether from Ailsa at Where’s my backpack? kindly inviting Across the Bored to participate in her challenge – Travel theme: Foliage.

In our part of the world fall foliage is a big deal – one can see gorgeous examples hanging over every street corner, maples and oak fanning glorious like peacocks on parade.  Central Canada and the Northeast Kingdom of the US have become an autumn tourist destination, with both the curious and well-acquainted making the trek to see just how vividly nature shows her colours.

In our backyard, we are surrounded by cedars, juniper, evergreens and an odd assortment of overgrown flowering bushes; the towering hundred year old maple will only turn long after many of its brethren are quite bare and so the bounty is of a different sort. Juicy pears and raspberries that have been here longer than anyone remembers are our harvest – just in time for thanksgiving.