Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Candle and Benches

I posted this candle last week but decided yesterday that it needed both a flame and a message. I played with it a bit in the morning before walkie and shopping.


On our walk, I photographed a red bench ↓ with the subsequent bend in the adjacent path. Sue was looking for bends that day, so I looked too.


At home, I discovered that a tighter crop works better for me. I don't know why I didn't see it on site, but I did have the bend in the path in mind, and I can have a pretty one-track mind. Also, I am more patient in the editing phase than I am with the camera.

As you can see by the colour and the maple leaf, it is a very Canadian bench.

I found another bench in the same park. In processing, the subtle beginning tinges of autumn were more visible than in person. Somehow the editing overdid the colour, but it suits me and the season too, I think.





27 comments:

  1. Well I couldn't wait. I signed up for Feedly and started entering my reading list into it. All went well until apparently I hit a limit and am still three or four blogs short of getting my entire blog roll onto it. Those sometimes don't post for many months or even years at a time so I guess I'll just have to periodically check them the old way unless Blogger gets things fixed eventually.

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    1. I should say I hit a limit using the free version only.

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    2. Shocked! I haven't exceeded my limit over the years.

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    3. I didn't know that Feedly had a limit; I use the free version too. Your blog list must be bigger than mine.

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    4. For some reason, it limited me after 22 blogs. When I paste a new link in, it now just pops up an add to subscribe. Perhaps it is a daily add limit. I'll go try again this morning to add the remaining blogs.

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    5. I discovered my problem. After entering so many blogs, I inadvertently clicked to close the Feedly window. When I opened it back up, I clicked on search which pops open a box to paste in the next url address which is where it starts prompting me to purchase a subscription. I discovered that I needed to click on the Follow Feed button which pops open a very similar screen but allowed me to add the remaining five blogs to my list.

      Perhaps out of spite, I saw the first sign of life out of my blogger reading list in almost a week. It updated five blogs to the top of the list though it still linked to older posts on each blog site.

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  2. What was happening with the sky in the last photo?

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  3. The first photo makes me want to spend the afternoon there with a book.

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  4. CP has some lovely parks! Happy for you.

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  5. Definitely the tighter crop.

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  6. I like the tighter crop and the last photo has the feeling of November. I need tp get all the blogs I follow onto my blog role, since the reading list isn’t working.

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  7. I like the lighter crop too. The red bench looks so happy to me.

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  8. What lovely photos, that red bench with the autumn tint is so atmospheric!
    Greetz from Sicily!
    https://canalsandcitrus.blogspot.com

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  9. Blogger is being weird and I am too. I am still quite tired and trying to catch up...I may not get that done for a while.
    That red bench happens to be my favorite! Well done!

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  10. A road curving into the unknown Is always eye-catching.

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  11. Lovely curves and benches, with a lot of green trees still. Keep on looking, and I'll be patient waiting for the colors.

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  12. As the saying goes, the bench photos give me all the feels. New directions, the temptation of sitting on a bench and watching the world go by, solitude.

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  13. You really do have a great eye. The bench has such a great pull, well done!

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  14. That candle is beautiful. You live in such a beautiful place. Very nice photos.

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  15. I do like the cropping on the bench photo!

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  16. I’m a little clueless when it comes to editing photos beyond a crop. Do you change the colors a bit? These are very rich and vibrant. I once printed a photo that I had taken, and my FIL liked the picture but not the color, so he took it and brightened it up. He liked it brighter, but I wanted it to look how it had looked to me, so I didn’t use his copy. (He went to art school, I did not)

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    1. Editing a photo can be as simple as making it look the way you remember, which is not necessarily what the camera saw and recorded. At other times, it can be fun to push the pixels and get a bit creative. You'll see that in my next post, Thursday.

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  17. I love that second picture of the red bench with that bit of autumn peaking out from behind it.

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  18. I love the curves and benches!

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  19. Soon you will have all the fun with autumn leaves.

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  20. The lit candle with the message is very pretty. I like the bench photos too.

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