tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48142946802905400892012-01-31T10:24:01.387-04:00Caribbean whimsy, colour, beauty and the beast of changeCorrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comBlogger1281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-81321428998365661342012-01-31T10:24:00.000-04:002012-01-31T10:24:01.392-04:00<div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">February issue of Arts Events Magazine Barbados just out.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Featuring </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1334064928" href="https://www.facebook.com/raymond.bancroft3" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Raymond Mathias Bancroft</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">this month.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Plus many new exhibitions at galleries, art workshops and more.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/february_2012_arts_event_magazine_barbados" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; 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width: 420px;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/february_2012_arts_event_magazine_barbados?mode=window&amp;backgroundColor=%23222222" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com/" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=art%20barbados" target="_blank">More art barbados</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8132142899836566134?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-15604889831557881442012-01-30T13:23:00.000-04:002012-01-30T13:23:02.417-04:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TzhrT66jtv8/TybPqjgkddI/AAAAAAAA_L4/DOdq09PDJHY/s1600/QR-First-Citizens-&amp;-Corrie-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TzhrT66jtv8/TybPqjgkddI/AAAAAAAA_L4/DOdq09PDJHY/s400/QR-First-Citizens-&amp;-Corrie-.jpg" width="303" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had great fun creating a QR on a large canvas and then floated the canvas which was then framed with padded raw red silk.&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loved working with Gigi Crayston of IDesign ( http://idesignlimited.com/ ) who designed and decorated the bank's new premises and allowed me to come up with quirky ideas for the artwork and execute them. Also lovely of the Gigi and First Citizens Bank to allow me almost free rein with the series of abstract paintings done for them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening night. The fun was then watching people being shown around and encouraged to take out their mobile phones to scan the image of the QR which led them to the bank's website.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can probably do it right here on the screen. Going to try it myself once I publish this blog.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TzhrT66jtv8/TybPqjgkddI/AAAAAAAA_L4/DOdq09PDJHY/s1600/QR-First-Citizens-&amp;-Corrie-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TzhrT66jtv8/TybPqjgkddI/AAAAAAAA_L4/DOdq09PDJHY/s1600/QR-First-Citizens-&amp;-Corrie-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TzhrT66jtv8/TybPqjgkddI/AAAAAAAA_L4/DOdq09PDJHY/s1600/QR-First-Citizens-&amp;-Corrie-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EP3OGyEuupQ/TybPj4p4qeI/AAAAAAAA_Lw/8JxBVPcg0Gc/s1600/First-Citizens-Corrie-Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="502" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EP3OGyEuupQ/TybPj4p4qeI/AAAAAAAA_Lw/8JxBVPcg0Gc/s640/First-Citizens-Corrie-Scott.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1560488983155788144?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-29744386022195682392012-01-28T16:57:00.000-04:002012-01-28T16:57:51.818-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C-8sV0AEMns/TyRgHVnyvpI/AAAAAAAA_Lg/wCeJnc0nBko/s1600/Bajan-Sea-today104_4974-cop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C-8sV0AEMns/TyRgHVnyvpI/AAAAAAAA_Lg/wCeJnc0nBko/s640/Bajan-Sea-today104_4974-cop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Our Bajan sea today. Brandon Beach, Spring Garden at mid day. Sat and had a roti under a tree with this view. Two lucky visitors and one local had the entire beach to themselves. As I get home and get my swimsuit am off into same waters just around the corner. Am blessed to live in Bim.<br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Bajan Waters</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2974438602219568239?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-55849020525064135172012-01-25T13:25:00.000-04:002012-01-25T13:25:21.170-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jSXOHjL7CRE/TyA6RKYQ5sI/AAAAAAAA-j4/BDCNMY8GX8Y/s1600/Traffic-jam-on-Highway-2-Ba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jSXOHjL7CRE/TyA6RKYQ5sI/AAAAAAAA-j4/BDCNMY8GX8Y/s640/Traffic-jam-on-Highway-2-Ba.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Major traffic jam on main Highway 2 of West Coast of Barbados. Moving 4 leggers and moving 4 wheelers collaborated to keep traffic moving minutes later.<br /><br />Love my island.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5584902052506413517?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-32010189323362784732012-01-24T13:14:00.000-04:002012-01-24T13:14:57.835-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2LtP2EalUs8/Tx7m0jHA_vI/AAAAAAAA-gU/VnYeCaxgr7w/s1600/Jan-2012-desktop--by-Corrie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2LtP2EalUs8/Tx7m0jHA_vI/AAAAAAAA-gU/VnYeCaxgr7w/s640/Jan-2012-desktop--by-Corrie.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Happy New Year to all.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3201018932336278473?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-62160770917892496952012-01-24T13:12:00.000-04:002012-01-24T13:12:02.110-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ml658UxMbs/Tx7lUxiSebI/AAAAAAAA-gI/SJsfGNwE-tw/s1600/foam-surfer-by-Corrie-Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4ml658UxMbs/Tx7lUxiSebI/AAAAAAAA-gI/SJsfGNwE-tw/s640/foam-surfer-by-Corrie-Scott.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><br />Starting the New Year with joy.<br />Sunday at The Pebbles Beach.<br />Lots of kids on the beach playing in the surf, building castles and generally having fun. This one just captured the moment of catching the wave.<br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6216077091789249695?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-80215177178675778882011-12-23T18:18:00.001-04:002011-12-23T18:18:54.941-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bvAar53yV6s/TvT9QJbHUBI/AAAAAAAA9qo/sxXg8xh96O0/s1600/Corrie-Christmas-Card-2011-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="486" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bvAar53yV6s/TvT9QJbHUBI/AAAAAAAA9qo/sxXg8xh96O0/s640/Corrie-Christmas-Card-2011-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />2011 has just a few days left and it has been a full, creative and eventful one.<br />2012 has new plans for me. To take me back to my studio and create.<br />Wishing everyone many joys for 2012.&nbsp; <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8021517717867577888?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-74638178075435280102011-12-08T16:42:00.005-04:002011-12-23T18:13:32.919-04:00<div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" style="width:420px;height:315px" id="074ff630-a4b1-c5cc-acd8-6a8bedb64913" ><param name="movie" value="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf?mode=mini&amp;viewMode=singlePage&amp;autoFlip=true&amp;titleBarEnabled=true&amp;backgroundColor=%23222222&amp;documentId=111208142130-315022e06f8d48648b0e5df5b24431dc" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" menu="false" wmode="transparent" style="width:420px;height:315px" flashvars="mode=mini&amp;viewMode=singlePage&amp;autoFlip=true&amp;titleBarEnabled=true&amp;backgroundColor=%23222222&amp;documentId=111208142130-315022e06f8d48648b0e5df5b24431dc" /></object><div style="width:420px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/art_directory_barbados_dec_2011?mode=window&amp;backgroundColor=%23222222" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=art%20barbados" target="_blank">More art barbados</a></div></div><br /><br />ARTS DIRECTORY BARBADOS.<br /><br />For desktop, laptops etc <br />http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/art_directory_barbados_dec_2011<br /><br />For ipad/iphone <br />http://en.calameo.com/read/001050992ae7ed08cc5c5<br /><br />With a deep breath and an enormous cheer the Arts Directory Barbados is ready for viewing online. Over 300 pages of art, artists and galleries. And with direct links to email and websites.&nbsp;&nbsp;Am so pleased. Wonderful to work with Kathy Yearwood for nine months who partnered with me to make this happen.<br />The dream to expose the arts in Barbados and allow anyone in the world to access the creative talents we have is here. Please, send this on to friends and help get the arts out there.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7463817807543528010?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-52000001140917629352011-11-12T15:51:00.001-04:002011-11-12T15:54:48.380-04:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xrp6a7Vt_4g" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><st2:date day="11" month="11" year="2011">11/11/2011</st2:date>.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Life without virtue, life without rules...is not life” says Rastafarian <st2:personname><st1:givenname>Neil</st1:givenname> <st1:sn>Simeon</st1:sn></st2:personname>, coconut vendor&nbsp;in <st2:country-region><st2:place>Barbados</st2:place></st2:country-region>.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I told <st1:givenname>Neil</st1:givenname> about the idea of people filming around the world on this date 11.11.11 for ‘One Day On Earth&nbsp;‘ <a href="http://www.onedayonearth.org/">http://www.onedayonearth.org/</a>, and he told me a story about similar dates and a rastafarian holy man.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here it is.&nbsp;http://youtu.be/xrp6a7Vt_4g<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5200000114091762935?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-58688301966022473622011-11-09T22:34:00.001-04:002011-11-09T22:36:38.401-04:00And so the adventure to Laos and Vietnam starts. Three days of travelling in many steel hulled tubes being hurtled through the air to get to Laos on the other side of the world in October.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JaHNkVL8WR8/Trs1MwGA6RI/AAAAAAAA9Ac/1htVebAoKqs/s1600/in+the+sky+1+102_1508+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JaHNkVL8WR8/Trs1MwGA6RI/AAAAAAAA9Ac/1htVebAoKqs/s640/in+the+sky+1+102_1508+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I am not a morning person but the early flight to Miami is always a wonderful treat at this time of year when the skies are crystal clear. I get to see an abstracted view of our Caribbean while flying over the islands. The shallow waters and markings of where the sea deepens creating almost humanistic forms to my sometimes overly vivid imagination. I would almost call this first image 'Two Dancers'.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KIQY9Pf4Iyw/Trs1Pz6UKHI/AAAAAAAA9Ak/UVMdMPuHjeU/s1600/in+the+sky+2+102_1511+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KIQY9Pf4Iyw/Trs1Pz6UKHI/AAAAAAAA9Ak/UVMdMPuHjeU/s640/in+the+sky+2+102_1511+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />This one where a submerged chain of islands with a puff of a line of cloud also caught me while I leaned my head against the window of the aeroplane, half exhausted from a lack of sleep and half exhilarated at this constantly changing scene of all the colours of the seas and skies we manage to get in our islands.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NJ8i71MpM9Q/Trs1SmMRhgI/AAAAAAAA9As/oScvKTbwLwM/s1600/in+the+sky+3+102_1519+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NJ8i71MpM9Q/Trs1SmMRhgI/AAAAAAAA9As/oScvKTbwLwM/s640/in+the+sky+3+102_1519+copy.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br />And this one with the sand formations. An abstract in the making. Or really, an abstract made by shifting tides and shifting winds.<br />Hard to beat nature.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5868830196602247362?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-56384944462013728502011-11-05T10:37:00.000-04:002011-11-05T10:37:34.661-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7VS0Lb_n70Q/TrVJpeZatuI/AAAAAAAA828/8BqZ3SU84HM/s1600/November-desktop-by-Corrie-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7VS0Lb_n70Q/TrVJpeZatuI/AAAAAAAA828/8BqZ3SU84HM/s640/November-desktop-by-Corrie-.jpg" width="640" /></a>Free November desktop calendar. Beautiful orchid photographed at the Orchid Show, Ball's Plantation, Barbados.&nbsp;</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5638494446201372850?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-68656916411128541062011-11-04T19:47:00.000-04:002011-11-04T19:47:17.553-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_2kpvgUlw9M/TrR1EomA_QI/AAAAAAAA82w/_PcjOgxiLNU/s1600/Halong-Bay%252C-Vietnam-Corrie-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_2kpvgUlw9M/TrR1EomA_QI/AAAAAAAA82w/_PcjOgxiLNU/s640/Halong-Bay%252C-Vietnam-Corrie-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />A magical, mystical adventure of Laos and Vietnam for a couple of weeks.<br /><br />Halong Bay, Vietnam. Over 3,000 karsts and islets. UNESCO World Natural Heritage site.<br />I was lucky enough to be there a couple of weeks ago as we were travelling through Laos and Vietnam.<br /><br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">According to local legend, when the Vietnamese were fighting&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_people" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Chinese people">Chinese</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;invaders, the gods sent a family of&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dragons">dragons</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;to help defend the land. This family of dragons began spitting out&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Jewels">jewels</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Jade">jade</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. These jewels turned into the islands and islets dotting the bay, linking together to form a great wall against the invaders. The people kept their land safe and formed what later became the country of Vietnam. After that, dragons were interested in peaceful sightseeing of the earth, and then decided to live here. The place where the mother dragon descended was named Hạ Long.&nbsp;</span></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Long_Bay">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Long_Bay</a><br /><br />I took one of my 'grown up' Canon with a 70-300 lens, my teenage Fuji S6000 and a tiny palm sized point and shoot Fuji. Photograph above taken with the tiny point and shoot. Secret is to not set these little cameras to automatic and so I had some control of the iso speed and set the quality to highest etc. I was just lucky enough to be in the right position at the right time to get this harmonious piece as I was just getting onto one of these junks to go and explore one of the floating villages.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6865691641112854106?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-42768821891603695432011-10-11T20:07:00.000-04:002011-10-11T20:07:10.683-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-51utswlQkI8/TpTYG2enmRI/AAAAAAAA8z0/bIshWxHg4yc/s1600/Couldn%2527t-be-fresher-by-Corr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-51utswlQkI8/TpTYG2enmRI/AAAAAAAA8z0/bIshWxHg4yc/s400/Couldn%2527t-be-fresher-by-Corr.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Couldn't be fresher.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SrtCaYXue5M/TpTZuW7gPiI/AAAAAAAA80A/9AFC7jY7OoM/s1600/Couldn%2527t-be-fresher-2-by-Co.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SrtCaYXue5M/TpTZuW7gPiI/AAAAAAAA80A/9AFC7jY7OoM/s320/Couldn%2527t-be-fresher-2-by-Co.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br />Watched a fisherman bring hi boay 'Kizzy' in to shore this afternoon and leave his catch of 2 large king fish on the beach. Some lucky people will have the freshest fish tonight.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4276882189160369543?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-81210767580772384572011-10-10T14:30:00.002-04:002011-10-10T17:17:09.676-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4F2HGiyt0SE/TpMqU-dW2yI/AAAAAAAA8zU/KGo7pG_dmmk/s1600/4.+Croton+cottage+today+102_1388+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4F2HGiyt0SE/TpMqU-dW2yI/AAAAAAAA8zU/KGo7pG_dmmk/s640/4.+Croton+cottage+today+102_1388+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><i>Very</i> excited. Found a 1950's Bajan bungalow. Been about 4 months getting it ready. Scrubbed walls and painted. Now ready to put my easel up, hang my art and beg the muse to enter.<br /><br />Just finished painting it with a traditional white with 'haint' blue trim to 'keep the duppies out'. &nbsp;My blog mentions <a href="http://caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com/2009/05/tv-room-alfresco.html">this traditional practise&nbsp;</a><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b>Stories of Haint blue. &nbsp;&nbsp;</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.witchvox.com/trads/trad_afmt.html">Appalachian Granny Magic Tradition by Ginger Strivelli&nbsp;</a><br /><br /><i>The spirits of the dead are often worked with as well, a lot of&nbsp;ancestral spirit guide workings are passed down through our&nbsp;Tradition,those practices trace back to not only Scotland and&nbsp;Ireland, but the Tsalagi Nation as well. 'Haints' are widely&nbsp;feared as 'angry' ancestral spirits, and many spells, charms, and&nbsp;rituals are practiced to keep these troublemakers at bay. One of&nbsp;the most interesting and common haint related spells requires&nbsp;that the doors of a home be painted 'haint blue.' Haint Blue is a&nbsp;bright baby blue with a periwinkle tinge, very close to but about&nbsp;one shade darker than the Carolina Tarheels' Blue color. This color is believed to repel the spirits and keep them out of the home.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>from: http://www.mydaufuskieclub.com/about/main_points_of_interests_on_daufuskie_island.htm&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>Haint Blue - Hags and Haints hold a responsible place in Gullah&nbsp;folklore. Hags are witches who live normal lives during the day,but by night they shed their skin and haunt people in their&nbsp;sleep. Haints are spirits of the dead. As you go around the island&nbsp;you notice a lot of houses have a particular blue on the shutters&nbsp;or doors of their homes, this is haint blue. This color is&nbsp;supposed to keep evil spirits away.&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Milk paint formulas in the early days were mixed in pits dug right on the properties where the painters were working.&nbsp;One ingredient in the milk paint formula was lime which would have deterred bugs/evil spirits.</span></i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8121076758077238457?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-28271536656463497412011-10-09T21:29:00.001-04:002011-10-09T21:34:28.877-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iwd8sTcyovo/TpJISW7cZEI/AAAAAAAA8wk/vKgOmMRbPbo/s1600/IV+IMG_0471a+5by5+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iwd8sTcyovo/TpJISW7cZEI/AAAAAAAA8wk/vKgOmMRbPbo/s400/IV+IMG_0471a+5by5+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://corriescott.net/page9.htm">'Blooming Roses'&nbsp;</a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I buy myself flowers whenever I go away.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Lying in bed reading I noticed the bedside light was casting a beautiful subtle light on the roses.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I got my camera, but then on a whim picked up my iphone and photographed using just the soft light from the bedside lamp. I took a few and found that I was getting a voluptuous, almost aged mood and colour and so I spent an hour photographing these beauties.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This series is from my iphone using the Hipstamatic App. Great fun.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I decided to exhibit these to show that photography is open to any camera and any interpretation ( and any modern app).&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">No corrections of any kind have been made on these images except for re sizing the image to 5" by 5" at 300dpi. They are as they were photographed.&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I then printed them with archival inks on acid free textured paper and created a series of 17.&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2827153665646349741?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-71143624829438001592011-10-06T22:10:00.000-04:002011-10-06T22:10:20.061-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AjHJ8MUWYgU/To5eR9qJNEI/AAAAAAAA8vU/wFvAMHdqsPo/s1600/boardwalk-wave-102_1231-cop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AjHJ8MUWYgU/To5eR9qJNEI/AAAAAAAA8vU/wFvAMHdqsPo/s1600/boardwalk-wave-102_1231-cop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AjHJ8MUWYgU/To5eR9qJNEI/AAAAAAAA8vU/wFvAMHdqsPo/s1600/boardwalk-wave-102_1231-cop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AjHJ8MUWYgU/To5eR9qJNEI/AAAAAAAA8vU/wFvAMHdqsPo/s1600/boardwalk-wave-102_1231-cop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AjHJ8MUWYgU/To5eR9qJNEI/AAAAAAAA8vU/wFvAMHdqsPo/s640/boardwalk-wave-102_1231-cop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p0VKnRorttY/To5e7QorVBI/AAAAAAAA8vY/9ztGjGwLXPw/s1600/october+2011+desktop+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p0VKnRorttY/To5e7QorVBI/AAAAAAAA8vY/9ztGjGwLXPw/s640/october+2011+desktop+web.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Lunch at Tapas. Beautiful views from wherever you sit. Great tapas and nice sized glasses of good wines. Watched this gal quietly leaning over looking at the crabs and shells on the rocks when a rogue wave suddenly came up. Love the wave and her reaction. A bit earlier and a glass of wine before took another shot which I used for the October Desktop calendar.<br /><br />Barbados so beautiful.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7114362482943800159?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-8162955914502785012011-09-28T15:05:00.000-04:002011-09-28T15:05:16.568-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JOQs9waF1jc/ToNtJPzx4xI/AAAAAAAA8rA/VH1aE67hWBo/s1600/mollybooby-2-102_1220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JOQs9waF1jc/ToNtJPzx4xI/AAAAAAAA8rA/VH1aE67hWBo/s320/mollybooby-2-102_1220.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Found a 'Mollybooby' moth.<br /><br />This is what it looks like after it has morphed from being a pop art coloured caterpillar ( see my last post).<br /><br />It has become a furry, iridescent being ( see the glitter from it on my fingers) and this image shows just how large the moth actually is.<br /><br />With the many neon coloured caterpillars we have seeen these last few months we must surely see many of these 'Mollyboobies' fluttering everywhere soon.<br /><br />Just looked up iridescence and found this interesting link &nbsp;<a href="http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag/butterflies/iridescence_in_nature.html">http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag/butterflies/iridescence_in_nature.html</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BHWH8ELx6R4/ToNtLskSNOI/AAAAAAAA8rE/IPEaOtv-f4E/s1600/mollybooby-moth102_1222-cop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="510" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BHWH8ELx6R4/ToNtLskSNOI/AAAAAAAA8rE/IPEaOtv-f4E/s640/mollybooby-moth102_1222-cop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-816295591450278501?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-52691478508182338392011-09-23T14:18:00.001-04:002011-09-23T18:15:43.642-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iSbczLUvEEM/TnzIzyv8XEI/AAAAAAAA8ps/DnlCKtLWmVs/s1600/Frangipani-caterpillar-102_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iSbczLUvEEM/TnzIzyv8XEI/AAAAAAAA8ps/DnlCKtLWmVs/s640/Frangipani-caterpillar-102_.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have just discovered that what we grew up and called a &nbsp;'Mollybooby' in Barbados (those very big brown moths) are in fact the very beautiful but greedy frangipani caterpillars which are officially known as&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Giant Gray Sphinx moth.&nbsp;</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">I just found one of the 'mollyboobies' /Giant Gray Sphinx moth/</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tetrio sphinx,&nbsp;<em>Pseudosphinx tetrio</em>&nbsp;(Linnaeus) and looked it up. <a href="http://www.allatsea.net/article/January_2007/The_Value_of_the_Frangipani_Worms">Interesting link &nbsp;</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our frangipani trees have masses of these caterpillars voraciously eating the leaves. After reading below I will leave them alone as in the end they actually help us and by next month they should all apparently be 'mollyboobies'</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"><i>Sometimes we see the Frangipani worms—but rather than ‘squash’ them, can we not allow them to proceed through their metamorphosis to become the Giant Gray Sphinx moth?&nbsp; The damage done by the caterpillar is repaired by the moth as it flits from flower to flower spreading pollen, helping to perpetuate many flowering plant species.</i></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.allatsea.net/article/January_2007/The_Value_of_the_Frangipani_Worms">http://www.allatsea.net/article/January_2007/The_Value_of_the_Frangipani_Worms</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5269147850818233839?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-47653857085461148572011-09-21T22:03:00.000-04:002011-09-21T22:03:41.960-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This time of year is so beautiful. Wild weather, crystal clear seas, tropical rain, and sunshine. You can leave home in pouring rain and half a mile a way the sun is shining brightly...and all on a 21 by 14 mile island. My home. Barbados<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dSN_v-7_cXg/TnqW1ZXUSAI/AAAAAAAA8pM/KVel9Y66C7o/s1600/storms-at-sea-102_0991-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dSN_v-7_cXg/TnqW1ZXUSAI/AAAAAAAA8pM/KVel9Y66C7o/s640/storms-at-sea-102_0991-copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4765385708546114857?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-33155810126946284742011-09-17T18:44:00.000-04:002011-09-17T18:44:25.497-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and now, after 3 days of rain the sun comes out and sets beautifully.&nbsp;The island has cooled. Bliss.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7RQQK9UpaF0/TnUhr2awKMI/AAAAAAAA8hU/plrozOJT1H0/s1600/rain-and-finally-some-sun10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7RQQK9UpaF0/TnUhr2awKMI/AAAAAAAA8hU/plrozOJT1H0/s640/rain-and-finally-some-sun10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3315581012694628474?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-46998653587860720492011-09-15T14:15:00.000-04:002011-09-15T14:15:02.740-04:00&nbsp;In a matter of 5 minutes the view went from bright sunshine with a storm out to sea and then a full scale storm with growling thunder and lighting arrived where I stood.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JDitI-tBVS4/TnI-hUCTvKI/AAAAAAAA8Vs/zjEFH_tVKNU/s1600/storm-at-sea-100_5711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JDitI-tBVS4/TnI-hUCTvKI/AAAAAAAA8Vs/zjEFH_tVKNU/s400/storm-at-sea-100_5711.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Always fascinates me to see the sun shining on our turquoise seas while a storm is out in the distance.&nbsp;The grey purplish background storm really shows of the beauty of our waters.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3eLrfF_XP7Y/TnI-kKJB9mI/AAAAAAAA8Vw/XFftewAEJT8/s1600/storm-2-100_5714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3eLrfF_XP7Y/TnI-kKJB9mI/AAAAAAAA8Vw/XFftewAEJT8/s400/storm-2-100_5714.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Suddenly I realised while I was photographing the scene the whole house was open and water coming in everywhere.<br /><br />It will dry. So will I.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4699865358786072049?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0Barbados13.138811443603986 -59.6373542652588112.990478943603986 -59.755113765258805 13.287143943603986 -59.51959476525881tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-30462102157159421892011-09-05T13:20:00.000-04:002011-09-05T13:20:47.398-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September here already. It was just the beginning of the year! I cannot believe the last post in this blog is from January. <br /><br />But August and September are those wonderful months where the air is so clean and clear that it is perfect for photography. Barbados is so beautiful at this time of year. Especially the sunsets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, here I am again, and will be putting up images taken from the last few weeks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below is a Free desktop calendar for September. If you need a larger one please email me at &nbsp;corriescott@gmail.com and I can send one to you.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z4ZzUnNOwdM/TmUDaXEMY6I/AAAAAAAA8Nk/Rvw9D7HwieA/s1600/Sept-Desktop-calendar--web-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z4ZzUnNOwdM/TmUDaXEMY6I/AAAAAAAA8Nk/Rvw9D7HwieA/s640/Sept-Desktop-calendar--web-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3046210215715942189?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-73458824871788064842011-01-07T15:59:00.000-04:002011-01-07T15:59:03.664-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TSdvROYCXlI/AAAAAAAAyFw/J7efkUy1J0U/s1600/aJanuary-desktop-calendar-c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TSdvROYCXlI/AAAAAAAAyFw/J7efkUy1J0U/s400/aJanuary-desktop-calendar-c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />2011 has arrived.<br /><br />Starting the year again.<br /><br />2010 has disappeared.<br /><br />Where to I don't know.<br /><br />And I find myself a year older if not wiser.<br /><br />Wishing one and all a joyous 2011.<br /><br />Image here is a January calendar for 2011. Should any of you like a larger one for your desktop just email me at corriescott@gmail.com and I can send larger format.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7345882487178806484?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-30765701537169386322010-12-20T13:53:00.000-04:002010-12-20T13:53:23.125-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TQ-XR59edwI/AAAAAAAAx0I/YNvfZw0W-AE/s1600/Corrie-Christmas-Card-2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TQ-XR59edwI/AAAAAAAAx0I/YNvfZw0W-AE/s640/Corrie-Christmas-Card-2010.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's that time of year again....</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wishing everyone many joys in 2011.<br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Took this last night with a tiny camera on the way home from delivering presents and after a wonderful long and late lunch with friends.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">House near Warrens in Barbados.&nbsp;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cannot imagine how long it took them to put up all these lights but it is giving joy to many as we rush along trying to do it all at this time of year.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3076570153716938632?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-86567028734425908112010-09-08T11:36:00.000-04:002010-09-08T11:36:24.403-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TIess_50dhI/AAAAAAAAwwU/0wvqmFyYPb4/s1600/Caribbean+Door+V++100_0702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TIess_50dhI/AAAAAAAAwwU/0wvqmFyYPb4/s400/Caribbean+Door+V++100_0702.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Caribbean Door V</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caribbean Door V from a series of 16 Caribbean Doors in the gorgeous island of Dominica. All 16 Doors may be seen by clicking on</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/caribbean_doors" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://issuu.com/corriescott/d</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><wbr></wbr></span><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ocs/caribbean_doors</span></a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just love the mix of colours and the many years of different paints, hinges and replacement wood.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8656702873442590811?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-83084077686084127722010-09-07T15:23:00.001-04:002010-09-07T15:24:31.943-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><p:colorscheme colors="#FFFFFF,#000000,#808080,#000000,#BBE0E3,#333399,#009999,#99CC00"></p:colorscheme></i></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s1026"><div><span style="color: grey;"><i>I have just finished publishing a new series of Caribbean Doors in Dominica. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.corriescott.net/page6.htm">The first four I issued earlier this year</a> and have now released the whole series of sixteen images. To view please click on &nbsp;&nbsp;</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><p:colorscheme colors="#FFFFFF,#000000,#808080,#000000,#BBE0E3,#333399,#009999,#99CC00"></p:colorscheme></i></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b><i><div class="O" style="display: inline !important;" v:shape="_x0000_s1026"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/caribbean_doors">http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/caribbean_doors</a></div></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i>Many of these wooden houses are now lost to us and so I have tried to preserve them </i></span><span style="color: grey;"><i>visually so that we may not forget the traditional architecture of our Caribbean. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i> </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i>I love the worn, weathered and much fixed doors, windows and structures. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i> </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i>These photographs were taken in Dominica between 2007 and 2009 while I stayed at </i></span><span style="color: grey;"><i>a wonderful house called Ramelton in the rainforest. I was there to photograph </i></span><span style="color: grey;"><i>Ramelton to build a website and while there I drove around Dominica and was awed by nature at its best. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i> </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i>A stunningly beautiful island. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i> </i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: grey;"><i>More photography may be seen on the site I built&nbsp; for Ramelton House </i></span></div><div><p:onmouseclick href="http://www.rameltondominica.net/" hyperlinktype="url"><a href="http://www.rameltondominica.net/" target="_blank">www.rameltondominica.net</a> “ </p:onmouseclick></div><div></div><div></div></div></i></b></span><br /><p:colorscheme colors="#FFFFFF,#000000,#808080,#000000,#BBE0E3,#333399,#009999,#99CC00"></p:colorscheme><div class="O" v:shape="_x0000_s1026"><div><i><br /></i></div><div style="mso-char-wrap: 1; 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width: 600px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: left; width: 600px;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/septemberarts_event_magazine?mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;autoFlip=true&amp;autoFlipTime=6000" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com/" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=corrie%20scott" target="_blank">More corrie scott</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2684820301391286415?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-12069746165542454562010-08-24T17:16:00.000-04:002010-08-24T17:16:54.019-04:00August Arts Magazine, Barbados 2010<br /><br /><br /><div><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;autoFlip=true&amp;autoFlipTime=6000&amp;documentId=100728004358-7cb5ee202cc44455ac0f4908398b9b13&amp;docName=august_arts_event_magazine&amp;username=corriescott&amp;loadingInfoText=Barbados%20Arts%20Events%20August%202010&amp;et=1282686080297&amp;er=38" menu="false" name="flashticker" quality="high" salign="l" scale="noscale" src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" style="height: 450px; width: 600px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><div style="text-align: left; width: 600px;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/august_arts_event_magazine?mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;autoFlip=true&amp;autoFlipTime=6000" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com/" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=caribbean%20art" target="_blank">More caribbean art</a></div></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1206974616554245456?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-78345404192575286142010-08-24T17:05:00.000-04:002010-08-24T17:05:24.752-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/THQuIHORz_I/AAAAAAAAwkM/InWF2LtHGns/s1600/adult+ramie+100_4195+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/THQuIHORz_I/AAAAAAAAwkM/InWF2LtHGns/s400/adult+ramie+100_4195+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/THQuCp5bORI/AAAAAAAAwkE/Zwu71jILPdw/s1600/young+ramie+100_4198+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/THQuCp5bORI/AAAAAAAAwkE/Zwu71jILPdw/s400/young+ramie+100_4198+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />Leaned out of my bathroom window and an adult ramie was perched on a branch in the rain and a foot away was an adolescent whose coloured red markings around the eyes and beak have not come out yet.<br /><br />These birds are notoriously shy but over the last 2 years there is a couple who come and nest outside the kitchen window and a couple who nest in the big white cedar tree perching on the cliff.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />One ramie in particular has become quite tame and will allow Cleo ( my dog) and I to walk less than a foot away from her while I feed her.<br /><br />I am not sure how to identify male and female ramie.<br />Does anyone know?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7834540419257528614?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-25238674785275511242010-08-16T09:47:00.000-04:002010-08-16T09:47:16.896-04:00<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Very proud to grace the cover of first issue of Nation Publishing 'Explore Our Isle Barbados' magazine.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Thank you Nation Publishing and Coast Caribbean!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Photograph taken from my balcony so shows a wonderful perspective. Colours in this image untouched. Aren't our seas in Bimshire beautiful?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I also have this image printed as a giclee on canvas 18" x 22" at my studio.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;documentId=100812205825-a0ee55ee2ae248f0a9f785a1bac7e986&amp;docName=explore_our_isle_barbados_july_2010&amp;username=NationPublishing&amp;loadingInfoText=Explore%20Our%20Isle%20Barbados%20July%202010&amp;et=1281967466086&amp;er=72" menu="false" name="flashticker" quality="high" salign="l" scale="noscale" src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" style="height: 630px; width: 420px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: left; width: 420px;"><a href="http://issuu.com/NationPublishing/docs/explore_our_isle_barbados_july_2010?mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com/" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=weddings" target="_blank">More weddings</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2523867478527551124?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-3139156019243518062010-07-27T11:45:00.001-04:002010-07-27T11:47:08.426-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TE79yT5NmJI/AAAAAAAAwXg/iSzqTM6LX38/s1600/August-2010-Desktopa-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TE79yT5NmJI/AAAAAAAAwXg/iSzqTM6LX38/s640/August-2010-Desktopa-copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">August just around the corner and Crop Over Festical in full swing here in Barbados.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Free desktop calendar of stiltmen and shaggy bears dancing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Music, arts, crafts, food and more galore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Come join us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-313915601924351806?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-54033521533795423382010-06-30T10:28:00.004-04:002010-08-24T17:13:51.493-04:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">July issue of my arts magazine just published. Am so pleased. FULL of art and events for the month.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Please share this and let's get the arts in Bim out there. &nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Link is &nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a1a1a1; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a1a1a1; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><strong><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/august_arts_event_magazine" style="color: #e3931c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/august_arts_event_magazine</a></strong></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a1a1a1; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><strong><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/august_arts_event_magazine" style="color: #e3931c; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"></a></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="mode=embed&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;documentId=100708202331-ae3f10333b4d4d07bfcaebc5aedefb1f&amp;docName=july_arts_event_magazine&amp;username=corriescott&amp;loadingInfoText=Barbados%20Arts%20Events%20July%202010&amp;et=1282685928245&amp;er=44" menu="false" name="flashticker" quality="high" salign="l" scale="noscale" src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" style="height: 158px; width: 420px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><div style="text-align: left; width: 420px;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/july_arts_event_magazine?mode=embed&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&amp;showFlipBtn=true" target="_blank">Open publication</a> - Free <a href="http://issuu.com/" target="_blank">publishing</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=corrie%20scott" target="_blank">More corrie scott</a></div></div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5403352153379542338?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-49130604955184895542010-06-25T17:01:00.001-04:002010-06-25T17:06:40.096-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TCUUESpqcCI/AAAAAAAAvpQ/BIzrCmS5eRI/s1600/July-Desktop-web-email-vers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TCUUESpqcCI/AAAAAAAAvpQ/BIzrCmS5eRI/s400/July-Desktop-web-email-vers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The island is <b>luscious</b> with colour at this time.<br /><br />The rains have come and the sere browns have been replaced with every shade of green imaginable and red splashes of flowering flamboyant around every corner.<br /><br />A feast for the eyes. A muse for creativity too.<br /><br />Mind you, during the dry weather the bougainvillea were in their many shades of joy.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TCUYioEdcCI/AAAAAAAAvpo/z-icRGHfW_s/s1600/bougainvillea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TCUYioEdcCI/AAAAAAAAvpo/z-icRGHfW_s/s200/bougainvillea.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Nature as ever hard to beat for spectacular sights.<br /><br /><br />Desktop calendar for July with a photograph of a palm frond taken at Accra Beach.&nbsp;To save for your desktop just click on image, save on your desktop, then right click and save as desktop image.<br /><br />Enjoy July<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4913060495518489554?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-17078968197096217052010-06-14T16:42:00.001-04:002010-06-14T16:45:26.118-04:00I just finished creating a book online featuring my ongoing series of Tropical Carriage.<br /><br /><br /><div><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&amp;backgroundColor=FFFFFF&amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;documentId=100531182909-b53f1a9138e24cf99bc7ad25d7702b0a&amp;docName=tropical_carriage_book&amp;username=corriescott&amp;loadingInfoText=Tropical%20Carriage&amp;et=1276549269288&amp;er=29" menu="false" name="flashticker" quality="high" salign="l" scale="noscale" src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" style="height: 315px; width: 420px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: left; width: 420px;"><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/tropical_carriage_book?mode=embed&amp;viewMode=presentation&amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&amp;backgroundColor=FFFFFF&amp;showFlipBtn=true" target="_blank">Open publication</a>&nbsp;</div></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1707896819709621705?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-76020234717226992632010-05-31T13:05:00.000-04:002010-05-31T13:05:19.899-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Already the middle of the year. June. The flamboyants are out in full bloom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Free desktop calendar for the month.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you need a larger image please email me at corriescott@gmail.com and I will send it to you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TAPrmdCfrjI/AAAAAAAAvMQ/0b_QShwixV4/s1600/June-desktop-final-corie-sc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/TAPrmdCfrjI/AAAAAAAAvMQ/0b_QShwixV4/s640/June-desktop-final-corie-sc.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7602023471722699263?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-33110367112187052962010-04-30T16:38:00.001-04:002010-04-30T16:39:09.367-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S9s8xgQSVPI/AAAAAAAAuVE/6MpW4QucpGc/s1600/May-2010-Desktop-WEB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="427" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S9s8xgQSVPI/AAAAAAAAuVE/6MpW4QucpGc/s640/May-2010-Desktop-WEB.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S9s8xgQSVPI/AAAAAAAAuVE/6MpW4QucpGc/s1600/May-2010-Desktop-WEB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><br /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp;Looks like I have missed a whole month and I know not where it went. So much for thinking I could put something in every day when I first started this blog just over a year ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But, I am very excited to have created a monthly online Arts Magazine to show off what we have in our tiny island of Barbados.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Please have a look at the magazine and let me know what you think.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Changing every month with new shows, invitations, workshops, galleries and more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/may_barbados__arts_events_2010">http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/may_barbados__arts_events_2010</a><br /><br />I have also created a FREE desktop calendar for May. If you need a larger image just email me at corriescott@gmail.com and I will send you one.<br /><br />There is an Exhibition "Constant and Waves" at Aweipo Gallery at the Crane with a group of other artists, including myself. Had fun creating some pieces specially for the show and they are a part of a series I have been working on for a few years with the many hues of the tropical seas and coral reefs. I am hoping to get images from the show soon so will post them here when I do.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3311036711218705296?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-66323665971104901602010-03-01T10:13:00.000-04:002010-03-01T10:13:18.750-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S4vK2CsjXtI/AAAAAAAArVs/_azucJGP0jk/s1600-h/March-desktop-by-Corrie-Sco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="518" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S4vK2CsjXtI/AAAAAAAArVs/_azucJGP0jk/s640/March-desktop-by-Corrie-Sco.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Carefree days and Caribbean warmth.<br />Free desktop calendar. If any of you need a larger image please email me at corriescott@gmail.com<br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6632366597110490160?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-87473681483260162322010-02-18T20:06:00.001-04:002010-02-18T20:06:55.734-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S33RkN8_yAI/AAAAAAAAq-s/mWTvNaAghbo/s1600-h/TC+Speightstown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S33RkN8_yAI/AAAAAAAAq-s/mWTvNaAghbo/s400/TC+Speightstown.jpg" width="267" /></a></div>Followed this wonderful sight slowly up the road as she walked home until she got to just in front of her house and then managed to photograph her in the light with the house in a wonderful shaded light.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S33UAT8jl1I/AAAAAAAAq-4/9h2Ax_Kyi2w/s1600-h/TC+baskets+Corrie+Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S33UAT8jl1I/AAAAAAAAq-4/9h2Ax_Kyi2w/s320/TC+baskets+Corrie+Scott.jpg" /></a><br />The mood has a feel of an era past, specially with the house which has the traditional slatted wooden air vent in the v of the roof area and the traditional double doors and windows with wooden slats, again for ventilation.<br /><br />A sight we are seeing less and less. I wanted to call my series of ladies and men carrying objects on their heads "Endangered Species" but was told that would be politically incorrect so some friends came up with the name of "Tropical Carriage".<br /><br />Interesting how the whole mood changes when she is in full sunlight in second photograph here. I prefer the one with the house in the background. The full sunlight one mind you is a perfect reference photograph of many taken of her walking up the street for my ongoing series of paintings of the <a href="http://corriescott.net/page4.htm">Tropical Carriage Series</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;or my black and white series of <a href="http://corriescott.net/page16.htm">photographs</a> of same wonderful women<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8747368148326016232?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-33873065366238960622010-02-02T11:20:00.000-04:002010-02-02T11:20:40.639-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S2hBHlH4RCI/AAAAAAAApkM/Swi33r7N6BY/s1600-h/February-2010-Desktop-Corri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S2hBHlH4RCI/AAAAAAAApkM/Swi33r7N6BY/s640/February-2010-Desktop-Corri.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><br /><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Free desktop calendar for February.&nbsp;</h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Simple red hibiscus taken in Dominica at a lovely house in the rain forest.&nbsp;</h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Have stayed there a few times and thoroughly enjoyed everything from walking down to the natural private 'pool' and waterfall to just sitting on the balcony watching the birds and looking at the stunning view.&nbsp;</h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dominica is so very beautiful.&nbsp;</h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More photographs can be seen by clicking on &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://rameltondominica.net/" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &quot;90a7034ffa708e5965a317b7ae5488cc&quot;, event)" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://rameltondominica.net</a>&nbsp;</h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;msg&quot;}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></h3><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3387306536623896062?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-66086390771054146312010-02-01T17:18:00.001-04:002010-02-01T17:29:37.789-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S2dBA9RR1gI/AAAAAAAAphs/e989VdaL8zs/s1600-h/sub-ship-102_2871-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S2dBA9RR1gI/AAAAAAAAphs/e989VdaL8zs/s640/sub-ship-102_2871-copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />Strangest looking ship/yacht/submarine? was docked at the port here in Barbados for a few days. Had to take a few ( not very good) photographs as it struck my fancy.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S2dBD3x-1aI/AAAAAAAAph0/mErHcWJbnps/s1600-h/people-on-sub-yacht-102_287.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S2dBD3x-1aI/AAAAAAAAph0/mErHcWJbnps/s400/people-on-sub-yacht-102_287.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />To show you the actual size of the ship the fuzzy close up photograph shows people at the back of this creation that floats. Enormous.<br /><br />Good old Google came to the rescue when I typed in 'luxury boat that looks like a submarine' and got this interesting blog &nbsp;<a href="http://blog.luxuryproperty.com/luxury-real-estate-gigayachts-a-sf99-sigma-mega-yacht/">http://blog.luxuryproperty.com/luxury-real-estate-gigayachts-a-sf99-sigma-mega-yacht/</a><br /><br />Then on reading the blog I discover that it was designed by Phillipe Starck. No wonder it was such a visual.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>' &nbsp;“A” is 118 meters long, and from whichever angle you see her is perfect, not a poor line in sight. I understand there are three swimming pools aboard, an owner’s suite, 6 guest suites and accommodations for 42 staff, which includes 5 guest’s staff. &nbsp;The owner is&nbsp;</i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Melnichenko" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Andrey Melnichenko</i></a><i>, a Russian energy billionaire and financier.&nbsp;“A” was built by&nbsp;</i><a href="http://www.blohmvoss.de/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Blohm &amp; Voss</i></a><i>, in Germany, and was previously designated SF-99, then “Sigma,” when the design went over 99 meters. The design was by Phillipe Starck, and has come in for some considerable criticism. You either love her, or hate her. The absence of any protuberances was one of his goals, and as you see from the photos, everything blends perfectly. '</i></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span></span><br /><br /><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; width: 734px;"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 160.9pt;" valign="top" width="215"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></td><td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 118.75pt;" valign="top" width="158"><br /></td><td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 59.6pt;" valign="top" width="79"><br /></td><td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 108.75pt;" valign="top" width="145"><br /></td><td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.8pt;" valign="top" width="78"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6608639077105414631?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-54855883127165328872010-01-18T10:38:00.001-04:002010-01-18T12:05:04.558-04:00<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp;Looking for a Princess.....<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S1RsFNdCAlI/AAAAAAAAomM/dkTcM4Q09J4/s1600-h/Toad+Prince100_2947+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S1RsFNdCAlI/AAAAAAAAomM/dkTcM4Q09J4/s640/Toad+Prince100_2947+copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Prince lives at #1 Bougainvillea, Prospect, St James, Barbados.<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He resides in the garden in an ancient section of bougainvillea in the corner of our garden.<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Discovered in his snug abode last weekend.<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We live by the sea and for many years I have encouraged my plants and trees to grow with the aid of lady birds ( who eat many times their weight each day in all those bugs that suck the life out of plants and usually hide on the underside of leaves), planting marigolds to put off same bugs and spraying mild solutions of dishwashing liquid on undersides of leaves. I do not like to use chemicals unless I have to and am horrified that we Bajans indiscriminately use pesticides and chemicals, many of which are banned in large 'developed' countries.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Many years ago I also read that one of the ways to get rid of slugs is to have frogs. Large brown ones which we , for some reason in Barbados call by their french name, <i>crapaud</i>. Apparently the french sell bags of live '<i>crapaud'</i> in their markets for just this purpose.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now I had never seen a <i>crapaud</i> in our little garden in the 25 years I have lived here. Hundreds of whistling frogs yes, the size of a fingernail, who whistle out their love calls every night in search of their next beloved, but no horny toads, frogs or crapauds.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In my enthusiasm to try this out, about 12 years ago I cornered 3 large frogs at my studio and brought them home thinking this would be the solution to my slug problem. Within days they had disappeared. Obviously not the grade of slug they were used to. Probably hopped their way back to my studio in disgust.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So who is this prince who has set up residence in our garden?<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are now looking for a female to accompany him. He would obviously have to move out of his tiny bachelor apartment.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After sending this out I got emails back and I Googled how to identify males and females and found this wonderful information on Crapaud/Cane Toad and all its uses and when they were brought to the Caribbean and what for. &nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5485588312716532887?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-19355537125352034552010-01-05T15:47:00.000-04:002010-01-05T15:47:45.375-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S0ORvKbu7fI/AAAAAAAAn7A/IAxPRKgUM_8/s1600-h/January+2010+screen+saver+by+Corrie+Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/S0ORvKbu7fI/AAAAAAAAn7A/IAxPRKgUM_8/s640/January+2010+screen+saver+by+Corrie+Scott.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2010 has arrived!<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">January Calendar screensaver. Please feel free to download and use it. My January gift to you.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And the cold fronts up north are travelling to us in the Caribbean in the form of enormous waves. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Surfers are in heaven.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Had a wonderful lunch with friends at the Lone Star restaurant and decided to stay on by myself to have some muse/me time watching the waves. Gorgeous with the afternoon light coming through them.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As ever I had a camera with me.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Many surfers.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I this particular photo I &nbsp;managed to capture the movement at the end when the surfer twists his board to head back out in search of the next perfect wave.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Look at the dance in his fingers as he twists. Perfect.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course I had another glass of wine.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joyous 2010.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1935553712535203455?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-37242701085876323572009-12-25T22:25:00.000-04:002009-12-25T22:25:23.800-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SzVyRbepESI/AAAAAAAAn1Q/tlqTvRNi5io/s1600-h/Corrie-Xmas-Card-2009-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SzVyRbepESI/AAAAAAAAn1Q/tlqTvRNi5io/s400/Corrie-Xmas-Card-2009-.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br />Where on earth has this last few weeks gone?<br /><br />Christmas has come and is almost gone.<br /><br />Just a few more hours.<br /><br />I have stuffed myself silly with delicious sinful foods and sit here thinking that perhaps all I can fit into at the moment might be Santa's Clothes ( without the belt to restrict my ever increasing girth) &nbsp;and my tum jiggles from everything it has consumed .<br /><br />The new year will definitely start with a diet, but in the meantime I intend to make merry for the next week and enjoy friends and family.<br /><br />Wishing everyone many joys and much love and laughter in this last week of 2009 and for the upcoming year.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3724270108587632357?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-54615758844014637612009-12-24T15:53:00.000-04:002009-12-24T15:53:54.023-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Abu" ( adopted from The Hope Foundation) and<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SzPB5in3KxI/AAAAAAAAny8/G8b2D9OvA9E/s1600-h/Abu-by-Corrie-Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SzPB5in3KxI/AAAAAAAAny8/G8b2D9OvA9E/s640/Abu-by-Corrie-Scott.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Vida" ( 11 year old diva Vida of a friend of mine)<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SzPB8hf_GTI/AAAAAAAAnzE/wB86aUp_8lE/s1600-h/Vida-by-Corrie-Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SzPB8hf_GTI/AAAAAAAAnzE/wB86aUp_8lE/s640/Vida-by-Corrie-Scott.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just finished these two paintings ( mixed media of pencil, watercolour crayons and chalk pastel on acid free Fabriano cold pressed watercolour paper, framed and ready to hang) as a donation to <a href="http://www.thehopesanctuary.com/">The Hope Sanctuary</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;who rescue, re habilitate and re home neglected, abused and abandoned animals in Barbados,&nbsp;plus&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thehopesanctuary.com/about/hope-projects/hope-martin-neutering-bus.html">The Hope Martin Trust</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;who work on a neutering programme to help stop the amount of unwanted animals on island.<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Please stop for a moment and have a look at their website &nbsp;<a href="http://www.thehopesanctuary.com/">http://www.thehopesanctuary.com/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;which is full of information on all the things they do and all the things you can get involved in to help.<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our pets give us so much joy. We need to give back.<br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5461575884401463761?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-34553391606880389872009-12-14T12:46:00.000-04:002009-12-14T12:46:47.483-04:00My babe Clio in her favourite place.&nbsp;<div>In the sea with her ball.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyZm88OlDJI/AAAAAAAAnMY/zcPTpKFA41E/s1600-h/Clio-in-the-Sea-101_1813-co.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyZm88OlDJI/AAAAAAAAnMY/zcPTpKFA41E/s400/Clio-in-the-Sea-101_1813-co.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Eleven years old.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Was given 2-3 months <b>over</b> 2 years ago as she has mast cell cancer. Had the lumps cut out by brilliant group of vets at Gus Readers and I then decided to make the most of my short time with her.</div><div><br /></div><div>She has rallied and rallied and is still with me.</div><div><br /></div><div>She is not meant to leave me yet.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>I dread the day.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>But at the same time am so grateful for all the years and days and joys and lopsided smiles and love she has showered on me.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is my child. I have no other child except for my beloved Clyde ( who is 76!)</div><div><br /></div><div>A pit bull. &nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyZnAG0mmYI/AAAAAAAAnMg/7c5OqiJNGqU/s1600-h/Clio+Ladder+101_1814+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyZnAG0mmYI/AAAAAAAAnMg/7c5OqiJNGqU/s400/Clio+Ladder+101_1814+copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div>Feared breed.</div><div><br /></div><div>But one of the brightest, most loyal people friendly dogs if brought up in a loving home. She is a prime example of &nbsp;what pit bulls really are like.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have taught her to open doors so that I did not have to get up to let her out. I can whisper to her and she obeys.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>She has also learned to climb the ladder out of the sea. I did this with her so that if she went into the sea ( her favourite place) she would be able to get out again by herself as she also had the habit of unlatching the beach gate ( now has a bolt due to her escapes) and going to play in the sand and sea. Hilarious to see her nonchalantly climb the ladder out of the sea with her ball.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our pets give us so much.</div><div><br /></div><div>Consider adopting a dog for yourself. You will not regret the many years of love, fun and loyalty you will get in return. Both <a href="http://www.thehopesanctuary.com/">The Hope Sanctuary</a>, the R.S.P.C.A. and&nbsp;<a href="http://arkanimalwelfarebarbados.com/home/index.html">The Ark&nbsp;Animal Welfare</a> have wonderful dogs waiting for homes.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyZnAG0mmYI/AAAAAAAAnMg/7c5OqiJNGqU/s1600-h/Clio+Ladder+101_1814+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3455339160688038987?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-11026678845466258532009-12-11T18:59:00.000-04:002009-12-11T18:59:20.041-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyLMSuZY2DI/AAAAAAAAnDY/eAL68OPE__0/s1600-h/baby+lizard102_2571+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SyLMSuZY2DI/AAAAAAAAnDY/eAL68OPE__0/s400/baby+lizard102_2571+copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div>A baby lizard the sitting on my basil plant. You can get an idea of its size by the leaf which is no more than an inch long. Just at the beginning of getting its markings and its colour.<br /><br />For the last few months I have been enjoying lizards all over the garden and in the house. From grey to irridescent green and turquoise. Babies to grizzled adults.<br /><br />And now that damned fogging truck, which is meant to get rid of mosquitoes has just gone by and left me gasping and fighting for breath as my tubes swell up inhaling that toxic fume and seriously hamper my breathing.<br /><br />I feel it is more dangerous to humans than to the mosquitoes.<br /><br />While it chugs along purportedly ridding us of the mozzies it in turn kills the ladybirds which eat the pests in the garden which in turn the lizards eat. They all die. My garden pests revel as for some reason this same 'fogging' does not kill them.<br /><br />Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1102667884546625853?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-70255487993642012412009-11-22T21:55:00.000-04:002009-11-22T21:55:22.443-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SwnmZG8yqxI/AAAAAAAAldw/kRJekvEX_k8/s1600/Sunday-Fun-102_2627-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SwnmZG8yqxI/AAAAAAAAldw/kRJekvEX_k8/s400/Sunday-Fun-102_2627-copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br />It was one of those glorious days today that had me mesmerised by its colour.<br /><br />A day we like to put in glossy travel magazines to lure visitors to our shores.<br /><br />Clarity for ever and ever.<br /><br />This blue sky and turquoise sea that I never fail to be astounded by.<br /><br />Caribbean in full colour and sharp focus.&nbsp;Had my little 'teenager' Fuji camera with me that has a very long zoom and managed to catch these 2 images.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SwnmdzXzG2I/AAAAAAAAld4/pFQ_J1R1a7E/s1600/Sunday-Fun-II-102_2631-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SwnmdzXzG2I/AAAAAAAAld4/pFQ_J1R1a7E/s400/Sunday-Fun-II-102_2631-copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div>Perfect lazy and late afternoon Sunday lunching at The Lone Star and had the delight of watching two boys cavort with their enormous surfboard, one facing the beach ready to surf, the other backing, both on the same surfboard and paddling furiously to get the next wave.<br /><br /><br />Such a reminder to keep life simple and find the joy.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7025548799364201241?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-47402551880609167592009-11-14T15:00:00.000-04:002009-11-14T15:00:54.962-04:00Here is a November, December 2009 Calendar Free Screensaver for you.<br /><br />At this very busy time I have to keep looking at my calendar while I work on layouts, photographs, websites, invitations, cards, lists, shows and answer emails etc and so I thought this would be very convenient as it is right in front of me on my computer.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sv79zHChT_I/AAAAAAAAlA8/gZAOuUH39Nw/s1600-h/Nov+Dec+screensaver+Corrie+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sv79zHChT_I/AAAAAAAAlA8/gZAOuUH39Nw/s640/Nov+Dec+screensaver+Corrie+copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div>Just click on the image here and get a larger size, save it in your comp and right click and save as screensaver.<br /><br />I took this photograph a couple of years ago off my balcony and still marvel at the colours of our Caribbean Sea.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4740255188060916759?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-15187355502650657722009-11-12T23:40:00.001-04:002009-11-12T23:41:22.819-04:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvzUA9PL4SI/AAAAAAAAk64/XSY1n3bOTSA/s1600-h/Palm-berries-by-Corrie-Scot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvzUA9PL4SI/AAAAAAAAk64/XSY1n3bOTSA/s400/Palm-berries-by-Corrie-Scot.jpg" /></a><br />These palm berries hold a fascination for me every year as they hang heavy from the trunk of the palm and beg for birds to come and eat the ‘fruit’ so that the seed may dry and drop off to drop and replicate itself as a next beautiful palm.<br /><br /><br />They look to me like an instant watercolour.<br /><br />A transparent watercolour as I can see the many layers of transparent washes from lightest yellow greens to rich fuschia travelling to vibrant ruby.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvzT9sY6DPI/AAAAAAAAk6w/kFS23UVMZOc/s1600-h/Palm-seeds-by-Corrie-Scott-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvzT9sY6DPI/AAAAAAAAk6w/kFS23UVMZOc/s320/Palm-seeds-by-Corrie-Scott-.jpg" /></a><br /></div>We can only marvel at nature.<br /><br />I look at them closely to see how I would paint them in watercolour and realise to get the rich colour I would have to do many <b>many</b>&nbsp;<b>MANY</b> washes of clean transparent colours to achieve what is there in life.<br /><br />Quite a challenge..and a joy.<br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Even the seed, after having the fruit part eaten by the birds is beautiful.<br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I picked some of the ground and rested them on my trousers in my car and photographed them and now looking at these photographs realise that tomorrow when I get into my car, where they still are I am now curious as to what abstract nature has created within the inside of this beautiful seed.<br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1518735550265065772?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-32404775853169346892009-11-06T16:56:00.002-04:002009-11-06T16:58:02.637-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>See you tomorrow for a fun afternoon and evening.</b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>( shameless plug to help our four legged friends)</i></b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I will have my art at special prices tomorrow and am also offering&nbsp;</b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>a <span style="color: #cc0000;">FREE</span> "Lobster Boy " limited edition offset lithographic reproduction print hand signed and numbered by me for each sale made of ''A Calm'' &nbsp;and ''A Shoulder To Lean On''. A percentage of proceeds from my sales will go to The Ark Animal Welfare Society. You can see these <a href="http://corriescott.net/page3.htm">lithographic prints</a> on my <a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">website</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvSLQ7ns5gI/AAAAAAAAkr8/ZEzfgVkjvqs/s1600-h/The-Ark-Christmas-Market-flyer-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvSLQ7ns5gI/AAAAAAAAkr8/ZEzfgVkjvqs/s640/The-Ark-Christmas-Market-flyer-.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></b><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3240477585316934689?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-65498976613309988672009-11-05T14:23:00.015-04:002009-11-05T15:44:01.239-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;">Lovely old building well known to many of us Barbadians as the Old Pharmacy getting a face lift as she is soon to become The Old Pharmacy Gallery.&nbsp;</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">She is a building for sale and we hope that someone will buy her and lovingly restore her to her original beauty as she is a wonderful example of traditional </span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Caribbean</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> architecture.</span></span></div></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvMqE9Vdk8I/AAAAAAAAkqg/CL_o1-6CZao/s1600-h/The-Old-Pahrmacy-102_2545-c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvMqE9Vdk8I/AAAAAAAAkqg/CL_o1-6CZao/s320/The-Old-Pahrmacy-102_2545-c.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvMqHIvxL9I/AAAAAAAAkqo/jeLPSkG5iLY/s1600/Old-Pharmacy-before102_2219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SvMqHIvxL9I/AAAAAAAAkqo/jeLPSkG5iLY/s320/Old-Pharmacy-before102_2219.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This exciting new gallery in a National Trust listed building is set to open its doors for the first time on Wednesday 18th November.</div></span><br /><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The gallery has been created on the ground floor of this historic building and will be offering works by Barbadian,&nbsp;</span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><st2:place>Caribbean</st2:place></span></st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">and International artists. Also there will be colonial and other antique furniture and collectibles Ceramics and Sculpture. On the property there will also be 6 Artists Studios which will in due course be open for the public to visit and in December it is hoped that a beachside Wine Bar will open displaying sculpture and enabling late night viewing of the Galleries.<o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The Old Pharmacy Gallery, Speightstown, St<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><st1:givenname>Peter</st1:givenname></span></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Barbados</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">.</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">For further information details,dates and gallery hours please contact; Roger<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><st1:sn>Chubb<span class="apple-converted-space"></span></st1:sn>&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;+1 (246) 432 0458 or 234 2494&nbsp;</span></div></span><o:p></o:p><br /><div style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://corriescott.net/">Corrie</a>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6549897661330998867?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-40969804369167575632009-10-29T18:40:00.005-04:002009-10-29T19:55:16.121-04:00<div>May I take some of the tedium out of choosing, buying, collecting and wrapping your Christmas Gifts? Plus delivering them to your office or home?</div><div><br /></div><div>Each time you buy any one of my limited edition lithographs of <b>'A Calm'</b> or '<b>A Shoulder To Lean On'</b> you will receive my <b>'Lobster Boy' </b>for<b> FREE.</b> These are all hand signed and numbered by me and come conveniently rolled and wrapped in white acid free paper. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>FREE delivery on island to your home or office</b> <b>for purchase of 2 or more .</b> </div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SuoaGH8NiAI/AAAAAAAAkh0/k9i-GuCBzPs/s400/Special-at-Italia-by-Corrie.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 321px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398155795870091266" /><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Gift Wrap Service</b>. They may also be wrapped with Christmas gift paper and a tag for a nominal charge of $5 ($2.50US) each. This way all you have to do is give the gift. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div><br /></div></span></b></div><div><b>A Calm</b> is approximately 16" by 20" $70Bds($35US)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>A Shoulder To Lean On</b> is approximately 16" by 20" $70Bds($35US)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Lobster Boy</b> is approximately 24" by 30" and is <b>FREE </b>for each purchase made of my other two limited editions. Lobster Boy sells for $120Bds($60US) but is FREE with this offer.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just call or email me </div><div><br /></div><div>Corrie Scott </div><div> +1 (246) 424 3965</div><div>email corriescott@gmail.com</div><div><br /></div><div>This offer is from November 1st until December 24th, 2009 ( or until stocks last) </div><div><br /></div><div>Happy Hassle Free Season!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4096980436916757563?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-59884468211386135402009-10-27T18:32:00.006-04:002009-10-27T19:06:27.790-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sud1ns_O72I/AAAAAAAAkd0/19X3wx2bir8/s1600-h/Zebra-byCorrie-Scott101_466.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sud1ns_O72I/AAAAAAAAkd0/19X3wx2bir8/s400/Zebra-byCorrie-Scott101_466.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397412003378556770" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Yes we have a zebra in Barbados.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Quite a shock to be driving out in the countryside past hills with rust coloured cows contentedly chewing their cud to be suddenly confronted with this apparition from Africa.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I love Zebras. Apparently zebra markings are like fingerprints. No two are alike. Not sure if this is true, but even if not I think it makes for an interesting story.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A couple of years ago I did a series of zebra paintings for a show I had at Lancaster Great House Gallery but decided that their markings would be of every other colour BUT their natural colour. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Enormous fun going cross eyed trying to work out what colour I wanted each stripe and then adding complementary colours in very thin hairline stripes. </div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sud4LKVta0I/AAAAAAAAkd8/ZpuE4urwus4/s400/Zebra-II-jpg-100_0030-.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397414811576134466" /><div><br /></div><div>Did 15 of them. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have quite a few images of this same zebra from all angles and may do another series soon, but this time may have them with their natural colours and as I write this perhaps with some copper and golds to burnish the canvas.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the meantime I am meant to be 'monkeying' around with 100 8" by 10" canvases of our charming but wicked Barbadian Green Vervet Monkey. A long term project which I hope I may be finished by sometime next year.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5988446821138613540?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-45034817095498384622009-10-16T15:01:00.002-04:002009-10-16T15:19:18.733-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/StjDOrgkVCI/AAAAAAAAkHw/eiDHco7ovGI/s1600-h/Best-Villa-102_2420-copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/StjDOrgkVCI/AAAAAAAAkHw/eiDHco7ovGI/s400/Best-Villa-102_2420-copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393275210741077026" /></a>Drove past this wonderful example of a chattel house called Dream Villa today. With what I believe is hand crafted gingerbread and posts. The front door will most certainly have been hand crafted, although now covered with galvanise where once glass would most likely have been. This wonderful old lady has seen better days and I wish we could preserve more of our traditional houses like these.<div><div><br /></div><div>Attached to the gingerbread at the front there are two duppy points. One missing on the side. At school, I learned from our wonderful eccentric English teacher</div><div> that those 'duppy' points protected the houses from evil spirits entering as they have sharp points. They were usually put at all points where there was a join or corner on the roof as that was where it is said the spirits enter. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unusual to see these duppy points except out in the country.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not only does this make for a lovely story but creates a lovely visual for these traditional wooden houses.</div><div><br /></div><div>Should any of you knows more about this story of duppy points please write and let me know.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4503481709549838462?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-57176159517671106592009-10-14T14:27:00.002-04:002009-10-14T14:37:25.278-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/StYYct7s-yI/AAAAAAAAkEk/Ie0WGIT2YcY/s1600-h/TC-pinkDSCF2398-copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/StYYct7s-yI/AAAAAAAAkEk/Ie0WGIT2YcY/s400/TC-pinkDSCF2398-copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392524485468158754" /></a>This was one of the first times I have seen one of the 'Tropical Carriage' ladies actually holding on in any way to what they carry on their heads. Usually once loaded on to the head they sway their bodies gracefully with heavy loads, often with other bags and packages on their arms and in their hands. I have never once seen anything drop from any of them and I have hundreds of photographs of them from over the years plus my series of <a href="http://corriescott.net/page4.htm">Tropical Carriage paintings</a> and a few of my <a href="http://corriescott.net/page16.htm">Tropical Carriage photographs</a> . It looks like the rolled cloth on top of her hat which is used to create the balance for the load is askew this time.<div><br /></div><div>I followed her until I got this lovely green wall as a backdrop.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5717615951767110659?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-62454574456949207862009-10-13T19:04:00.004-04:002009-10-13T19:11:27.034-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/StUHmo7-wVI/AAAAAAAAkCI/6V7QyFzGBzY/s1600-h/sunsetplanetDSCF2411-copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/StUHmo7-wVI/AAAAAAAAkCI/6V7QyFzGBzY/s400/sunsetplanetDSCF2411-copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392224489251455314" /></a>It has been a couple of months since I have posted. I don't know why.Life goes at a speed that I cannot fathom and this year is no exception.<div><div><br /></div><div>I came back from the beach with my babe dog Clio and this sunset presented itself as I walked on to my balcony. It had an 'other worldly' look to it. Almost like one of the planets in our universe rather than the star that it is.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6245457445694920786?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-13760662106560333152009-07-06T18:33:00.003-04:002009-07-06T18:50:12.696-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SlJ76KZYn3I/AAAAAAAAe6Y/XDePEKQsDfk/s1600-h/Coconuts+Painted+100_1439+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SlJ76KZYn3I/AAAAAAAAe6Y/XDePEKQsDfk/s400/Coconuts+Painted+100_1439+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355479146050396018" /></a><div>My talented sister Heather-Dawn Scott<div>borrowed my photograph (featured on my blog yesterday) and created this evocative Caribbean scene.</div><div><br /></div><div>Being an artist is delicious as we have the artistic license to change scenes, people,colours, moods, at our will. </div><div>For me painting is a form of playing where I disappear to another world and time ceases to exist. </div><div><br /></div><div>' Coconuts' now hangs at Tides Gallery where it is waiting for someone to choose it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have created a print of this to put in my car so that when I see the coconut vendor I can give it to him. I get so many photographs this way. Giving back.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://corriescott.net">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1376066210656033315?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-75449853774857703732009-07-04T18:58:00.002-04:002009-07-04T19:01:03.550-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sk_fF2nhWOI/AAAAAAAAevo/8WUo2nXA1mU/s1600-h/Just-Picked-Coconuts-by-Co-.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sk_fF2nhWOI/AAAAAAAAevo/8WUo2nXA1mU/s400/Just-Picked-Coconuts-by-Co-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354743773620426978" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;font-size:14px;">Nothing nicer than the top of a coconut split open right in front of you with a dangerous looking cutlass, given a straw ( it is an art drinking straight from the coconut and one that I have not mastered as it tends to dribble all over me when I have tried) and drink the warm nutritious liquid followed by the vendor splitting the coconut in half , and given a wedge made from same coconut to eat the coconut jelly straight out of the shell.<div><br /></div><div>Hot late afternoon up in the back roads of Sunset Crest this coconut vendor had just climbed the tree with his rope and his serrated knife ( in pocket) and had tied a bunch of coconuts off the tree to be lowered and put in his cart for selling the next day.<div>They can split if just dropped from the top of the tree and so lose all liquid.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>It is a hard physical job and each bunch of coconuts can weigh 30lbs or more and I am grateful for these hardworking men who hand me this wonderful drink for a mere few dollars.</div><div><br /></div><div>Known also as the tree of life.</div><div>"<span style=" ;font-family:Arial;">In Sanskrit, the coconut palm is known as <i>kalpa vriksha,</i> meaning "tree which gives all that is necessary for living," since nearly all parts of the tree can be used in some manner or another. The coconut itself has many food uses, including milk, meat, sugar and oil as well as functioning as its own dish and cup." ( from Living Foods)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); ">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7544985377485770373?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-72857557059651375962009-06-25T11:42:00.006-04:002009-06-25T12:10:52.264-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SkObGLrzJfI/AAAAAAAAd3w/XiYIqpytb0c/s1600-h/monkey-3c-for-web.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 399px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SkObGLrzJfI/AAAAAAAAd3w/XiYIqpytb0c/s400/monkey-3c-for-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351291312764298738" /></a><div>Driving in St James.</div><div><br /></div><div>This monkey was sitting on a coralstone wall in St James enjoying this mango. Next to him another monkey with a long wedge of pineapple. I am sure they had sneaked into a kitchen and were now eating what was meant to be a part of someone's fruit salad!</div><div><br /></div><div>Known as Bajan Green Monkeys ( Vervet Monkeys) they have become part of our residential landscape as we have stolen their lands. And because they are so human many of us encourage and feed them, not realising that they have become pests in that they will strip your fruit trees.</div><div><br /></div><div>A few years ago I was planting some banana plants at my studio as I love the colour and tropical form they have and the gardener laughed at me and asked me if I was planting monkey food and told me that I would never see a ripe one and that the best I could do was to pick them green and eat them as a vegetable or salad.</div><div><br /></div><div>What the banana plants did do was to attract the monkeys and so I could capture them with my camera and sketch them for future paintings such as this one.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another image available as a <a href="http://corriescott.net/page26.htm">Free E Card</a> on my website for you to send which can be used for any occasion. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7285755705965137596?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-65382646119560291142009-06-20T22:44:00.003-04:002009-06-20T22:53:24.922-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sj2enfGR-tI/AAAAAAAAdto/ZKV6C1qIIpY/s1600-h/Pineapple-with-cigar.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sj2enfGR-tI/AAAAAAAAdto/ZKV6C1qIIpY/s400/Pineapple-with-cigar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349606333585947346" /></a><div>Friend of mine called 'Pineapple ( because he usually puts his hair up in a way that it sprouts out of the top of his head and so got the nickname) was sitting happily on a wooden post by the Carib Beach Bar with a Banks beer in one hand and a cigar in the other ( I know, I know, it looks like something else, but it WAS a cigar!) and this was irresisitible to paint.</div><div><br /></div><div>It was an 8" by 10" canvas ( SOLD...yay!) and I have also put it onto my <a href="http://corriescott.net/page26.htm">FREE Ecards</a> of my art &amp; photography on <a href="http://corriescott.net/">my website</a> which I have just created so that all of you can send out cards for any occasions, and also of course help an artist market herself and so be able to pay the rent at her studio. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6538264611956029114?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-83840602146957635682009-06-17T11:48:00.007-04:002009-06-17T12:24:29.429-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVztFGwgI/AAAAAAAAdoY/iHLLldTV4Q0/s1600-h/GHNS-Awards-copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 346px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVztFGwgI/AAAAAAAAdoY/iHLLldTV4Q0/s400/GHNS-Awards-copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348330010497696258" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkTtnbQrCI/AAAAAAAAdl4/AYE4JMEGejY/s1600-h/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_6_.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "></a></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family:'lucida grande';"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkTtnbQrCI/AAAAAAAAdl4/AYE4JMEGejY/s1600-h/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_6_.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let us look to our youth to lead us. </span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family:'lucida grande';"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkTtnbQrCI/AAAAAAAAdl4/AYE4JMEGejY/s1600-h/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_6_.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They are our future.</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; border-collapse: collapse; font-family:'lucida grande';"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkTtnbQrCI/AAAAAAAAdl4/AYE4JMEGejY/s1600-h/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_6_.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary owners have created an initiative for kids to be responsible for our environment, and to come forward with ideas.</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkTtnbQrCI/AAAAAAAAdl4/AYE4JMEGejY/s1600-h/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_6_.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande';"><h3 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Public recognition and cash prizes</span></span></h3><h3 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">too.</span></span></span></h3><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Please, take a moment and forward this to all you know and help us Barbadians look after our future. We have been given a legacy. Let us respect what we have and look after it.</span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thank you,</span></span></span></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVk7rtyEI/AAAAAAAAdoI/Wiyh95LnBTM/s400/Graeme_Hall_Nature_Sanctuary_Dec_1st_2008._Corrie_Scott_all_rights_reserved_7_.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329756719695938" /><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Corrie</span></a></span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Announcement</span></span></div></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></u><a href="http://www.graemehall.com/awards" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">www.graemehall.com/awards</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Barbados Children's Environmental Action Awards Programme<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVklW3ciI/AAAAAAAAdoA/KWep_mx0DCw/s400/Graeme_Hall_Nature_Sanctuary_Dec_1st_2008._b_Corrie_Scott_all_rights_reserved_15_.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329750726668834" /><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sponsored by Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary [Christ Church, BARBADOS] </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The new Barbados Children's Environmental Action Awards (CEA) programme was announced today by the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary.<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To be awarded four times </span></span></span></span></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVkecH9AI/AAAAAAAAdnw/3sYsqSxoP50/s400/Graeme+Hall+Nature+Sanctuary,+Dec+1st+2008.+b+%C2%A9Corrie+Scott+all+rights+reserved+(11).jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329748869673986" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">each year, the CEA Awards encourages and recognises children and children's groups for their activities that directly preserve and protect terrestrial</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and marine natural habitats and parklands throughout Barbados for future generations.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Today's children are tomorrow's leaders. We encourage children to learn the importance of the environment to our health and</span></span></div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVXanEtvI/AAAAAAAAdng/rXXPU2IPQ-w/s400/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_23_.JPG" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329524503557874" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "> social welfare, and be proactive in saving wild habitat and open spaces, </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">as well as helping to identify and correct environmental problems," said Peter Allard, Chairman of the Sanctuary.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"This award pays tribute to the</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> work of many in the community </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">who understand the importance</span></span></span></span></div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVW4dYEXI/AAAAAAAAdnY/JvrP6YRMuG8/s400/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_11_.JPG" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329515336077682" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "> of protecting the last remnants of Barbados' environmental legacy for future generations."<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Each CEA Award includes a Bds. $2,000 prize, plus a public</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">recognition ceremony at Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary for invited children, families and guests.<br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The first CEA Award nomination deadline for 2009-2010 is September 15, 2009.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjkVWq-BhYI/AAAAAAAAdnQ/s5iqP_-kg5U/s400/GHNS_Dec_2008_CorrieScott_199_9926_6_.JPG" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348329511714915714" /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">The successful nominee will be publicly announced by October 31, 2009.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More information for CEA nominations can </span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">be found at</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><a style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">www.graemehall.com/awards</span></span></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8384060214695763568?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-90287129775522927682009-06-14T22:34:00.003-04:002009-06-14T22:58:18.052-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjW1hSdhz6I/AAAAAAAAdi0/WDn3H1y0sKQ/s1600-h/Huntes+Gdns+213_1321+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjW1hSdhz6I/AAAAAAAAdi0/WDn3H1y0sKQ/s400/Huntes+Gdns+213_1321+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347379716068331426" /></a><br /><br /><div>Visited Anthony Hunte this afternoon who has the most stunning tropical garden. I should say gardens because they are on many levels with intimate seating areas dotted around for us to sit and dream.<div><br /></div><div>Anthony invited us to view them and I was awed by the beauty he has created. <div><br /></div><div>They are :</div><div><br /></div><div>Romantic.</div><div><br /></div><div>Enchanted.</div><div><br /></div><div>A tropical Paradise.</div><div><br /></div><div>I could fill many pages trying to evoke what he has there. </div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjW1hHtCrDI/AAAAAAAAdis/UZ8yCXdcejM/s400/Huntes+Gardens+213_1317+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347379713180609586" /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I wandered around for a while and took a few photographs but will be going back closer to August when the light is so clean and clear as at this time in Barbados it is hazy and we have the Sahara dust ( yup, all the way from Africa!) </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Even with the haze today I managed to get a couple of lovely shots as the sun kept popping out from behind clouds and showing of our vibrant tropical finery.</div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SjW1g3pdFRI/AAAAAAAAdik/YV9MkjYR4p8/s400/Huntes+Gardens+213_1315+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347379708870595858" /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>An enchanted place.</div><div><br /></div><div>Go.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-9028712977552292768?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-48124699974958442152009-06-03T14:01:00.003-04:002009-06-03T14:21:14.841-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sia6qX38ZvI/AAAAAAAAdCU/VbWVseB1DnE/s1600-h/Bdos+Green+Monkey+for+blog.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sia6qX38ZvI/AAAAAAAAdCU/VbWVseB1DnE/s400/Bdos+Green+Monkey+for+blog.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343163245047604978" /></a>As an artist we get these crazy impulses and my latest one is that I have ordered 100  8" by 10" canvasses and plan ( hope?) to try and paint 100 monkeys sometime between this month and early next year.<div><br /></div><div>I had the  (again crazed) notion that I could paint one monkey a day, but that idea fills me with immense fear of setting myself too much of a stressful situation and one thing I must always do is enjoy my art as I paint otherwise they end up being discarded.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I am going to give myself more time and allow at least 200 days to create the 100 monkeys. Knowing me it will probably take 2000 days! Or halfway through painting them have another idea for the canvasses and move with my mood. But my hope is to stay on the monkey course.</div><div><br /></div><div>I plan to hang them as a patchwork and invite people to move around the work as they think it should be hung. A bit of fun and allows others to use their own creative ideas. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4812469997495844215?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-90540630469070371352009-05-10T22:50:00.004-04:002009-05-10T23:08:36.127-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SgeSeqzcrBI/AAAAAAAAcc0/FVjFxEad3A8/s1600-h/Caribbean+tv+nevis.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SgeSeqzcrBI/AAAAAAAAcc0/FVjFxEad3A8/s400/Caribbean+tv+nevis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334393339227450386" /></a>Back to our part of the world. This time in Nevis, a charming island north of  Barbados.<div><br /></div><div>A perfect tv 'room'. For watching cricket most probably.</div><div><br /></div><div>Loved the mood of the two beach chairs with the tv set into what looks like a computer desk much the same as the one that I am writing from now ( and in the same wobbly state!)</div><div><br /></div><div>Note the 'haint' blue painted around entrances and joints of the building which is believed to keep the evil spirits out ( more on this soon)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-9054063046907037135?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-2745913627888152742009-05-08T17:43:00.009-04:002009-05-08T18:24:39.424-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SgSoHHbtidI/AAAAAAAAcaw/4bRe_M0v3l8/s1600-h/Fatu-Iva-by-Corrie-Scott-1-.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SgSoHHbtidI/AAAAAAAAcaw/4bRe_M0v3l8/s400/Fatu-Iva-by-Corrie-Scott-1-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333572698921339346" /></a><div>Going through my images of our trip to the Marquesas in 2006 to send to a client minutes ago brought back all the mystical magical of that far away place back as if I had just come away from there. One of those once in a lifetime trips.</div><div><br /></div><div>So different from the Caribbean. By looking at the very spindly looking football posts on the beach you can see the enormity of the land as it soars out of the sea.</div><div><br /></div><div>Arriving in Tahiti and getting onto the Aranui, a cargo cum passenger boat which carried everything from tractors, copra, horses, building materials, vanilla and 200 of us passengers ( thankfully only about 100 on our trip), we chugged along for a few days to get to the <a href="http://www.aranui.com/press/TelegraphTravel-04.pdf">Marquesas</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Rising out of the sea, the water close to the land was so deep that we were able many times to actually 'anchor' to a rock not more than 20 feet away.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SgSnvUwHaVI/AAAAAAAAcao/N1_tEMNSsb4/s400/Fatu-Iva-by-Corrie-Scott-2-.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333572290179721554" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://www.aranui.com/">Aranui</a></span>, a 14 days adventure cruise in the French Polynesia, Marquesas islands, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">begins the journey from Tahiti to Fakarava, Ua Pou, Nuku Hiva, Hiva Oa, Fatu Hiva, Tahuata, Ua Huka, Rangiroa and back to Papeete.</span></span> The names alone evoke images of romance.</span></span><div><br /></div><div>I also captured some <a href="http://corriescott.net/page10.htm">serene views</a> at sunset time as we sailed away to go to the next island.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am sure you will be seeing more of these images as I reminisce that wonderful time.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-274591362788815274?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-32656122290652946432009-04-27T16:10:00.003-04:002009-04-27T19:06:40.669-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SfYRVBfjKGI/AAAAAAAAbxs/UhNJTt6c3JM/s1600-h/Basil%27s-Front-Door.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SfYRVBfjKGI/AAAAAAAAbxs/UhNJTt6c3JM/s400/Basil%27s-Front-Door.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329466261915248738" /></a><br /><div>Another Caribbean Door. </div><div><br /></div><div>But this time a Balinese Door in a Caribbean setting. </div><div><br /></div><div>I was just coming out of a friend's house in The Grenadines and his much photographed door from the road looked even more romantic from the inside looking out to the glorious turquoise seas and a scarlet flowering flamboyant tree.<div><br /></div><div>I love doorways and have a large collection of photographs taken over the years. From old, cracked, multi painted to bright new ones. The wonder of it is to see the traditional craftwork of our artisans past.</div><div><br /></div><div>A few may be seen on ;<br /></div><div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/DoorsWindowsByCorrieScott#">http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/DoorsWindowsByCorrieScott#</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3265612229065294643?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-67359369784721451542009-04-22T14:37:00.003-04:002009-04-27T16:22:54.984-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;font-size:14px;"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">On </span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Earth Day</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> help us save over 240 acres of wetlands in Barbados by joining  '</span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Save The Graeme Hall Sanctuary </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">' .</span> </span></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;font-size:14px;"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On this very special day, as a member of this earth, please join us , no matter what country you live in, as we take a moral responsibility to speak out when we see the possible loss of an ecological habitat. </span></span></span></span><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To join, please click on:</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=""></span></span><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><a href="http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=582582386&amp;k=36EYQZPZSZ6M5GCHQA2XQQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; 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color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "></a></span></span><span style="display: block; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><a href="http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=582582386&amp;k=36EYQZPZSZ6M5GCHQA2XQQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SZ6M5GCH</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>QA2XQQ</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Se9kLqhZSDI/AAAAAAAAbqY/9cEGY_UsUG4/s400/wetlands-Corrie-Scott-Barba.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 346px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327587035758282802" /></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If you are already a member </span><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">please</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> take a few minutes to forward this to your email listing.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As we grow in numbers ( nearly 6,000 at this time at the Facebook site of 'Save the Graeme Hall Sanctuary') it gives us a voice and so be able to allow government to see that we want to save this beautiful area for ourselves, our future generations and our visitors. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">More information on the wetlands may be seen on   </span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); "></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); "><a href="http://www.graemehallnationalpark.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.graemehallnationalpark.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">   </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and  </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); "><a href="http://www.graemehall.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.graemehall.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">  </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There is also a petition being created online </span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(which will be available soon)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> for all to sign in our quest to save this fragile ecological system which is being eroded as we speak.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=""></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To see just a few of the many photographs of this special place click on<br /></span></span><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=""></span></span><div><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/GraemeHallNatureSanctuaryDec4th2008#" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://picasaweb.google.com/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>corriescott/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>GraemeHallNatureSanctuaryDec4t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>h2008#</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and</span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/GHNSDec1st#" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://picasaweb.google.com/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>corriescott/GHNSDec1st#</span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/GraemeHallNatureSanctuaryBarbados#" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://picasaweb.google.com/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>corriescott/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>GraemeHallNatureSanctuaryBarba</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>dos#</span></a></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So, join the Facebook group "Save the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary".</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style=""><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />To see more details and confirm this group invitation, follow the link below:</span></span></span><span style="display: inline; "><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span><span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><a href="http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=582582386&amp;k=36EYQZPZSZ6M5GCHQA2XQQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=582582386&amp;k=36EYQZPZSZ6M5GCHQA2XQQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "></a></span></span></span><span style="display: block; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><a href="http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=582582386&amp;k=36EYQZPZSZ6M5GCHQA2XQQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 153, 187); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SZ6M5GCH</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><wbr>QA2XQQ</span></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style=""></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Happy Earth Day everyone. Do your part. It's your earth.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Corrie</span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:16px;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6735936978472145154?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-9404681134268158722009-04-16T17:22:00.005-04:002009-04-27T16:23:34.254-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SeeixRkZZpI/AAAAAAAAbDE/MQTd0r1x3Po/s1600-h/whistling+frog+april+16th+101_1536+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SeeixRkZZpI/AAAAAAAAbDE/MQTd0r1x3Po/s400/whistling+frog+april+16th+101_1536+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325404051802252946" /></a>While 'showering' my orchids today this whistling frog jumped out of the pot and I spent 10 minutes trying to catch it and put it back. Each time I got it in back in where it came from it decided it wanted out and jumped back out.<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SeeixZsqcTI/AAAAAAAAbDM/LWLyW4bgJgg/s400/whistling+frog+april+16th+101_1537.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325404053984407858" /> It was comical but I was worried it may have left part of its family in the pot and I did not want to be responsible for separating them.<div><br /></div><div>These whistling frogs are tiny. The size of a fingernail as you can see here. But they have a piercing whistle as they woo each other at night.</div><div><br /></div><div>I remember a few years ago when opera singer Lesley Garrett was here and she actually stopped singing, looked deadpan at the audience and suggested that their whistling chorus was competing with her.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are so used to them here that we don't even hear their nightly chorus until someone mentions it.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-940468113426815872?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-64468369556380532212009-04-09T20:33:00.004-04:002009-04-27T16:24:03.067-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sd6UC1ZOH8I/AAAAAAAAa0M/sx3ELw-f1Jc/s1600-h/Caribbean-Door-IV-Corrie-Sc.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/Sd6UC1ZOH8I/AAAAAAAAa0M/sx3ELw-f1Jc/s400/Caribbean-Door-IV-Corrie-Sc.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322854586012016578" /></a>Lat year while staying at <a href="http://rameltondominica.net/">Ramelton</a>, a charming house in the rain forest in Dominica, I drove around the capital Roseau and photographed more of the traditional architecture, specially the wooden buildings.<div><br /></div><div>This is such a lovely calm one, but at the same time the many years of the closing wooden strap has scraped the paint away, and a layer of wood peeled away at the bottom to reveal the worn wood below.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have such charm in the Caribbean.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have just released a <a href="http://www.corriescott.net/page6.htm">series of doors</a> in this same mood and am delighted how they have turned out as I have printed them on textured cotton watercolour paper which has given them a very painterly look.</div><div><br /></div><div>Will show the others in the next few days.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6446836955638053221?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-90364435898599545032009-03-18T14:02:00.003-04:002009-04-27T16:24:25.726-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/ScE3bIumRtI/AAAAAAAAWoA/MPekKorXhps/s1600-h/mar+15th+a+101_2279+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/ScE3bIumRtI/AAAAAAAAWoA/MPekKorXhps/s400/mar+15th+a+101_2279+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314589974612821714" /></a><br /><div>Just precious.<div><br /></div><div>A baby beach bum last Sunday at Fish Pot. </div><div><br /></div><div>Covered up to protect from harmful uv rays.</div><div><br /></div><div>Keeping life simple.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-9036443589859954503?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-50028514728556660932009-03-09T21:39:00.003-04:002009-04-27T16:25:12.051-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SbXE_xwzd9I/AAAAAAAAVcw/5ZZp8J_YWm4/s1600-h/mar+2+Tonk+board.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SbXE_xwzd9I/AAAAAAAAVcw/5ZZp8J_YWm4/s400/mar+2+Tonk+board.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311367935522207698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SbXE_mFniiI/AAAAAAAAVco/u4R4cbAyk7w/s1600-h/mar+2+tonk+game+101_1144.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SbXE_mFniiI/AAAAAAAAVco/u4R4cbAyk7w/s400/mar+2+tonk+game+101_1144.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311367932388280866" /></a>Last weekend we went to Braddy's Bar at Six Men's for some fried fish on the beach cooked in large metal tureens under which great chunks of mahogany burned for cooking. Yes mahogany. It is an area where the fishing boats are built and these are cut offs from the ship building.<div><br /></div><div>Two men were playing a card game I had never seen before. They called it Tonk and said it had been played in Bim for years.</div><div><br /></div><div> I had to look it up on trusty Google and found this on Wikipedia.</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.05in;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.75pt"><span style=" font-weight:normal;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonk_(game)">Wikipedia</a>, the free encyclopedia<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt"><b><span style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">Tonk</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>tunk</b>, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card" title="Playing card"><span style="color:#002BB8;">card</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>game, is a less complex variety of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummy" title="Rummy"><span style="color:#002BB8;">rummy</span></a>, without the scoring component. Any number can play. A game consists of several hands. The players take turns dealing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">Tonk is usually played for money, with a stake agreed on before the game starts. Each player pays the stake to the winner of the hand. Games typically involve three to five players. Stakes may be any amount, but are typically small, on the order of a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(U.S._coin)" title="Nickel (U.S. coin)"><span style="color:#002BB8;">nickel</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(U.S._coin)" title="Dime (U.S. coin)"><span style="color:#002BB8;">dime</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">Tonk is a relatively fast game that can be played during brief periods of time by varying numbers of players. In some places it is a popular pastime for workers on their lunch break.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">A standard fifty-two card deck is used. Each card has a point value: Ace through ten have their face value, aces having a value of one point, deuces a value of two points, and so on. The </span><st1:givenname><span style="font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">Jack</span></st1:givenname><span style="font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:13.0pt;color:black;">, Queen, and King are each worth ten points.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><a href="http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonk_(game)">much more information on this game </a></span></p><p style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:-webkit-sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5002851472855666093?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-36274794789414641562009-02-28T17:00:00.004-04:002009-04-27T16:25:48.823-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SammBTuTowI/AAAAAAAAVAk/k_7_vOZK8wQ/s1600-h/Feb+28th+Corrie+Scott+101_1136+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SammBTuTowI/AAAAAAAAVAk/k_7_vOZK8wQ/s400/Feb+28th+Corrie+Scott+101_1136+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307956177237418754" /></a><div>Parked on the side of Spring Garden Highway next to the sea, having a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">very</span> late afternoon lunch at 5.30pm with an all beef roti in one hand and pepsi in the other, this was one of the many sights while I munched away.</div><div><br /></div><div>An almond tree with leaves turning autumnal colours, filled with blackbirds coming in to roost for the night. </div><div><br /></div><div>This one was perched in its nest and swaying in the breeze while the sun started to set. Its own sea view condo.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3627479478941464156?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-60545687375877909832009-02-23T19:41:00.005-04:002009-04-27T16:26:15.011-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SaM0WMa95RI/AAAAAAAAUmM/veOS8HwoZIU/s1600-h/feb+23rd+Corrie+Scott+202_0213.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SaM0WMa95RI/AAAAAAAAUmM/veOS8HwoZIU/s400/feb+23rd+Corrie+Scott+202_0213.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306142341868676370" /></a><div>'Greatness Comes from Within'. The words on the poster behind. </div><div><br /></div><div>Doesn't it just fit the scene?</div><div><br /></div><div>So much may be read by her stance and face as she watches the world go by on the pavement by the Oistin's Fish Market.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>She rules the world.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6054568737587790983?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-45900423266734298662009-02-15T14:20:00.003-04:002009-04-27T16:26:44.293-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SZhdIRm4GcI/AAAAAAAAUNs/p380hx76cio/s1600-h/feb+15th+100_0998+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SZhdIRm4GcI/AAAAAAAAUNs/p380hx76cio/s400/feb+15th+100_0998+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303090957975558594" /></a><br /><div>On my way on Friday to the Black Diaspora Symposium at the Frank Collymore Hall organised by the NAGC I saw this lovely sight of what I am going to title 'Big Sister'.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have a funny feeling this will be a painting one day as it is not only wonderful with colours but  but evokes a warmth of caring and togetherness.</div><div><br /></div><div>As George Lamming said later that day from a quote in which two words resonated within me which were  '' Love and respect ''</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4590042326673429866?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-6561239479316041972009-02-05T22:05:00.002-04:002009-04-27T16:27:04.608-04:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SYua8TgHvII/AAAAAAAAUAs/qPTgSK_5sgE/s400/feb+5th+100_0884+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299499747349347458" /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Beautiful orchids at Balls last Sunday.<div><br /></div><div>This is just one of the many varieties to be seen there. </div><div><br /></div><div>For me they have an almost human quality. At times almost decadent, sometimes human, and many times have an alien form.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-656123947931604197?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-21299971491307971022009-02-03T19:07:00.007-04:002009-04-27T16:27:29.816-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SYjOqTniVrI/AAAAAAAAT-4/K49M9Ihbx0M/s1600-h/feb+3rd+100_0953+by+Corrie+Scott.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 363px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SYjOqTniVrI/AAAAAAAAT-4/K49M9Ihbx0M/s400/feb+3rd+100_0953+by+Corrie+Scott.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298712187817318066" /></a><div>Isn't she gorgeous?<div><br /></div><div>Found her today and used my zoom fully to capture her without her knowing so that I could get that wonderful innocence of childhood.</div><div><br /></div><div>Am so pleased with this specially as it was taken with a small Fuji camera and not a 'grown up' with lenses. For me it is about capturing the moment, not always the equipment.</div><div><br /></div><div>She was quietly watching two of her friends who were sitting on the grass near her.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2129997149130797102?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-8962757167740550072009-01-29T20:29:00.006-04:002009-04-27T16:28:22.277-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SYJJ9ob6D_I/AAAAAAAAT34/Sfq6kyKnBNk/s1600-h/jan+29th+pit+bull+100_0830+copy.jpg"><br /><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SYJJ9ob6D_I/AAAAAAAAT34/Sfq6kyKnBNk/s400/jan+29th+pit+bull+100_0830+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296877434916442098" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">(14th February 2009.  She has been re united with her owner. What wonderful news)</span></span><div><br /></div><div>Help! <div><br /></div><div>I need to find my home. I was found near the Sundown Drive In and was looked after and then taken to the RSPCA  a few days ago.<div><br /></div><div>I am going to be neutered for my own safety.</div><div><br /></div><div>I may have been dumped. If so please help me find a loving home. I am young, perhaps 2 years old, female and brindle. I am very loving and I promise I will be quick to learn if  you will take me in. </div><div><br /></div><div>I was found with a tag but it led nowhere and the pound says it is not a valid tag.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;font-size:14px;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "><span style="font-style: italic; ">Letter below from Julie Webster  who found her</span></blockquote><div class="Ih2E3d" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "><br />Hi Everyone<br />I found this beautiful, friendly pit bull up by the Drive In yesterday<br />evening.  Alan Storey kindly kept her for me last night and I had to take<br />her to the RSPCA this morning.  She is definitely someone's dog as she is so<br />friendly.<br />She had a license on her but when I phoned the number on it it was out of<br />service.  The Animal Control told me that the license number does not exist<br />in their records.<br />She is a young female in very good condition.  We noticed that she has two<br />black spots far back on her tongue which was constantly hanging out.  I<br />phoned friends in Bannatyne to see if they knew her to no avail. I am now<br />making a flyer to circulate in the neighbourhood.  Please pass on to your<br />friends.  Even if the owner doesn't surface she will make a wonderful pet.<br />Julie<br /></blockquote></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-896275716774055007?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-24648861687426589702009-01-27T10:41:00.008-04:002009-04-27T16:29:10.999-04:00<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SX8dTn_-vNI/AAAAAAAATyE/-7l8swj2EL8/s400/jan+24th+100_0811+close+up.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295983909803048146" /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>While at Lemon Arbor Souce Factory in St John for my 'fix' of lean souse we sat at a picnic table with many people we did not know. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There were bottles of rum, mini vodkas, flasks, containers of ice and many mixers. </div><div><br /></div><div>Pork, pudding and souse, cou cou, creole breadfruit, chicken, pickled sea cat, fish, macaroni pie,token salads amidst all the protein and carbs, ketchup, pepper sauce and much more. <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SX8dTq4TNkI/AAAAAAAATx8/bPUk5ZE5HMc/s400/jan+24th.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295983910576141890" /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A typical Bajan Saturday lime of many people.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Most fascinating the more I looked at it was this hairstyle as when I looked close up it looked like an abstract or a wonderful underwater coral scene. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>How we copy nature never fails to amaze me and many times we do not even know we are doing it.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2464886168742658970?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-72641291447412897022009-01-23T20:09:00.005-04:002009-04-27T16:29:37.096-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXpcz8Ocq4I/AAAAAAAATsY/1vqKJCfoQZg/s1600-h/jan+23rd+101_5596+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXpcz8Ocq4I/AAAAAAAATsY/1vqKJCfoQZg/s400/jan+23rd+101_5596+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294646359337249666" /></a> <div>This week seems to be windows.</div><div><br /></div><div>Love 'em.</div><div><br /></div><div>I love the old fashioned Caribbean wooden windows and wether old and worn with many layers and years of paint or freshly painted like this one.</div><div><br /></div><div> They are so beautiful.</div><div><br /></div><div>I sat in my car waiting for someone and watched the sun as it came out from behind the clouds create these lovely tropical shadows on the window.</div><div><br /></div><div>Plus a perfect blue sky today.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7264129144741289702?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-57773998037924349662009-01-22T23:41:00.005-04:002009-04-27T16:30:01.143-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXk9-5bXCfI/AAAAAAAATog/cGja65-1JoQ/s1600-h/jan+22nd.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXk9-5bXCfI/AAAAAAAATog/cGja65-1JoQ/s400/jan+22nd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294330987727489522" /></a><br />At my studio in Pavilion Court. <div><br /></div><div>I planted these cacti a few years ago and just love the way they have taken over their space and now reach higher than the roof. </div><div><br /></div><div>The visual is almost like a firework below and then the frangipani and the rest of the cactus just reach for the sky. </div><div><br /></div><div>They were all planted with 'dead soil' as my landlord put it and they have thrived.<br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5777399803792434966?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-7855863838684532432009-01-21T19:08:00.006-04:002009-04-27T16:30:46.657-04:00<div>Here are some of the windows of the last chattel house I posted here last. </div><div>I just love the patina of the old wood and the many many colours coming through from the years this house has lived and was painted.<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXetmXTVOqI/AAAAAAAATdA/kpzeVy1Kxtk/s400/jan+17th+a+100_0663+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293890761599040162" /></div><div><br /></div><div> It has now worn down to old wood. Very beautiful. <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXetRF8eLgI/AAAAAAAATcw/9uPHEFyCHHg/s400/jan+17th+b+100_0662+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293890396162502146" /></div><div><br /></div><div>I know we are progressing and many of us aspire to stone dwellings, but the charm of the chattel house will be sorely missed when they all go. </div><div><br /></div><div>I am trying to record as many as I can while we still have them. have been doing this for about 30 years so many of the images I have no longer exist in reality. </div><div><br /></div><div>But they are remembered.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-785586383868453243?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-63071209147614782442009-01-19T09:44:00.003-04:002009-04-27T16:31:25.752-04:00<div>Am back home and landed running and so have yet again not been able to keep up with my daily images. </div><div><br /></div><div>So good to be home. Had a lovely time abroad with beloved friends but always good to come home.</div><div><br /></div><div>The temperature at this time of year just glorious, even to the point of having to make a concerted effort and rush into the sea to get in as we Caribbean people find the cooler waters quite hard to ease into. Visitors laugh as they jump into our warm waters.</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXSEFK3VQ7I/AAAAAAAATRA/mPpctk3e_3o/s400/jan+16th+a100_0660+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293000686417822642" />I was 15 minutes early for an appointment and as ever decided to go for a drive and found this lovely old chattel house with weathered wood. This is a good example of Bajans building their new home while still literally attached to their old home. I believe this is the way of avoiding building planning permission ( please correct advise me anyone who may know more on this).<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SXSEE24W0xI/AAAAAAAATQ4/Ngh_A0-bTjc/s400/Jan+16th+100_0659+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293000681053410066" /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6307120914761478244?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-65804157091553326392009-01-11T12:17:00.006-04:002009-04-27T16:31:59.600-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWob3yfCsqI/AAAAAAAATMw/Mx3e0BOEbrc/s1600-h/P+%26+L+100_0562+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWob3yfCsqI/AAAAAAAATMw/Mx3e0BOEbrc/s400/P+%26+L+100_0562+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290071357558796962" /></a><br /><div>Following my wonderful friend Patricia and her Mum on a walk I captured this wonderful snowy sight of the two of them and Azamour besides them.<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWocc3mGO2I/AAAAAAAATM4/uM2TScixUQ0/s400/dog+100_0560+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290071994585725794" /></div><div>Minutes later this playful dog high up on a mound of snow let us know we were coming too close but wagging his tail and jumping at the same time. Glorious sight with the amazing blue sky above.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6580415709155332639?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-69848592382236361382009-01-11T12:09:00.004-04:002009-04-27T16:32:34.709-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWoaF7pFnCI/AAAAAAAATMo/ConEhB3uoQY/s400/glider+a+100_0603+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290069401511762978" /></div><div>The sky has been filled with gliders these last few days,<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWoaFoDbosI/AAAAAAAATMg/CFGkJS8_8Ow/s400/glider+b+100_0604+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290069396253549250" /> </div><div>so I walked down to where they finally land in Klosters after taking off high in the mountains.  The colours of this particular one were lovely and so I caught the sequence as he came in, landed, then walked away with his parachute. <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWoaFaHo4EI/AAAAAAAATMY/j_7QyQRSBus/s400/glider+c+100_0605+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290069392513097794" /></div><div>In my cartoon mind the one with the parachute on the ground fluttering down actually looks like a giant caterpillar rearing up. </div><div><br /></div><div>Alice in Wonderland stuff. </div><div><br /></div><div>Must be something I ate at lunch to have this visual.</div><div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWoaFJI1XkI/AAAAAAAATMQ/7__oxELOUt8/s400/glider+d+100_0606+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290069387954708034" /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6984859238223636138?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-15363159031786777362009-01-11T06:31:00.003-04:002009-04-27T16:33:07.630-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnKudJ3ynI/AAAAAAAATMI/Ie3yp1DpKrQ/s1600-h/chur+100_0497+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnKudJ3ynI/AAAAAAAATMI/Ie3yp1DpKrQ/s400/chur+100_0497+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289982136772184690" /></a><br /><br /><div>We went one day to the oldest town in Switzerland called Chur.<div><br /></div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnKuGaVi8I/AAAAAAAATMA/kEqMtYK1aMk/s400/chur+100_0496+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289982130667228098" /><div>Old part of town beautiful with cobbled streets and narrow ways. </div><div><br /></div><div>Full of statues and sculptures.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wonderful traditional murals and friezes on buildings. </div><div><br /></div><div>And surrounded by mountains on all sides.</div><div><br /></div><div>The last place I was in that was surrounded by mountains was that magical city of Nepal, Khatmandu.</div><div><br /></div><div>Water and mountains are always fascinating to me, with their ever changing moods and light.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1536315903178677736?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-84406657041018220032009-01-11T06:26:00.003-04:002009-04-27T17:28:35.700-04:00<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnKHctsrxI/AAAAAAAATL4/R14hTvDt9uc/s400/children+b+100_0598+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289981466639118098" />Near the childrens ski school in Klosters. <div><br /></div><div>The children here come out in full gear for skiing, right down to little designer glasses. </div><div><br /></div><div>So sweet. </div><div><br /></div><div>Got this charming shot on the way as Mum pulls one daughter with her skis and the others two skip ahead in anticipation of a fun afternoon.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnKHOZTMSI/AAAAAAAATLw/Z-LrK0zx5zI/s400/children+a+100_0596+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289981462795464994" /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8440665704101822003?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-41738746625582174072009-01-11T06:18:00.006-04:002009-04-27T17:29:09.584-04:00<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnH5gahkuI/AAAAAAAATLo/a3w4rEe3uJw/s400/ice+f+100_0563+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289979028091015906" /></span>I love the formations of ice and snow and the abstract patterns they create.<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnHyXDyMfI/AAAAAAAATLg/ETZOx5GJoEI/s400/ice+e+100_0614+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289978905320632818" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"> The river which runs along near the chalet is ever changing as the temperature drops and then changes. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnHydqzqSI/AAAAAAAATLY/NZzLJ8AHFc0/s400/ice+d+100_0615+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289978907094919458" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;">Crystals form. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnHyJWGviI/AAAAAAAATLQ/zTBKAjqV_84/s400/ice+c+100_0613+copy+2.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289978901639380514" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;">Fresh snow creates almost a 'fur' look and then when brushed gently powder snow is underneath. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnHyK6n2cI/AAAAAAAATLI/AznwDiHKPSQ/s400/ice+b+100_0577+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289978902060980674" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;">As I walk every day here I look for these patterns</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px;"><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnHxxY2aOI/AAAAAAAATLA/f2KkiP4YdTY/s1600-h/ice+a100_0574+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnHxxY2aOI/AAAAAAAATLA/f2KkiP4YdTY/s400/ice+a100_0574+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289978895208442082" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4173874662558217407?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-51532498960497493512009-01-11T06:10:00.004-04:002009-04-27T17:29:49.898-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnG5YVFTII/AAAAAAAATK4/g7YricB2584/s1600-h/klosters+100_0510+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnG5YVFTII/AAAAAAAATK4/g7YricB2584/s400/klosters+100_0510+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289977926409079938" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnFmy4stOI/AAAAAAAATKw/ect7oaXd51s/s1600-h/bedrom+view+100_0536+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWnFmy4stOI/AAAAAAAATKw/ect7oaXd51s/s400/bedrom+view+100_0536+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289976507608642786" /></a>Travelling has made it difficult for me to keep up my day to day blog so again I am going to try and catch up.<div><br /></div><div>This is probably how 2009 is going to be. Trying to catch up but enjoying life as it happens.</div><div><br /></div><div>Having flown transatlantic I arrived in Switzerland and took the trains from the Zurich airport to Klosters, a beautiful small town in the mountains. The train journey is very beautiful as we go along the lakes and then into the mountains where the snow laden trees almost brush the trains they are so close. </div><div><br /></div><div>And here is the view from my bedroom window while lying in bed. Bliss.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here with loving friends in the snow. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-5153249896049749351?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-80550841150000281402009-01-04T20:07:00.007-04:002009-04-27T17:30:32.759-04:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFQVgMqJzI/AAAAAAAATJo/hZRcloSoQHs/s1600-h/dec+26+26th100_0347.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595767860176690" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFQVgMqJzI/AAAAAAAATJo/hZRcloSoQHs/s400/dec+26+26th100_0347.jpg" border="0" /></a> Dec 26th - Jan 1st.weeks worth of pics.<br /><br />Been out of cyberspace for just on a week and have travelled across continents in last few days.<br /><br />Left our Caribbean shores on Dec 26th and on take off saw this view of the Crane which gives a perspective of how large this development is.<br /><br />Canada 26th - Jan 1st<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFQNJXx5mI/AAAAAAAATJg/BiIfmljkiW4/s1600-h/jjn+1st+cat100_0456+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595624293852770" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 286px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFQNJXx5mI/AAAAAAAATJg/BiIfmljkiW4/s400/jjn+1st+cat100_0456+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Christmas cat whom I fell in love with. Was feral and fed by my hostess for months before trust built up to set up residence inside. Now having moved into the house she runs us humans beautifully.<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFQMwsBpRI/AAAAAAAATJY/FRe0XQ1--iw/s1600-h/dec+31st+aft100_0381+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595617667884306" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFQMwsBpRI/AAAAAAAATJY/FRe0XQ1--iw/s400/dec+31st+aft100_0381+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Small stream near village in Newcastle on lake at sunset time. Loved the sun shining through the snow encrusted ball of ice.<br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP4OQTuFI/AAAAAAAATJI/c5cJyGxHKD0/s1600-h/dec+29th+201_0153+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595264827439186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP4OQTuFI/AAAAAAAATJI/c5cJyGxHKD0/s400/dec+29th+201_0153+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a>Light on the lake was for me beautiful and so this shot resulted. Probably should be a black and white but I loved the suggestion of colour in the clouds and the lake.<br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP3m3VJpI/AAAAAAAATJA/YaBQgnEfYfY/s1600-h/dec+28th+100_0372.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595254253692562" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP3m3VJpI/AAAAAAAATJA/YaBQgnEfYfY/s400/dec+28th+100_0372.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sunny day looking out of bedroom window. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP3BlL_MI/AAAAAAAATIw/9f2k-PU9MJA/s1600-h/dec+27th+100_0368+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595244245482690" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP3BlL_MI/AAAAAAAATIw/9f2k-PU9MJA/s400/dec+27th+100_0368+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a>Misty day looking out of bedroom window. Loved the way the weather created moody views.<br /></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP3mmr2XI/AAAAAAAATI4/ot1IBOfQlhQ/s1600-h/dec+27th+a+201_0146+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287595254183876978" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SWFP3mmr2XI/AAAAAAAATI4/ot1IBOfQlhQ/s400/dec+27th+a+201_0146+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Rain poured one day and the skylight in our bedroom fascinated me as it became a constantly changing abstract as the drops hit the glass with force and were flattened. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Happy New Year! </div><div></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie </a></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8055084115000028140?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-89006357126275506412008-12-26T13:14:00.007-04:002009-04-27T17:30:56.163-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVURPTDyWJI/AAAAAAAATII/c9Dqh_8jDlo/s1600-h/dec+26th+201_0115+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVURPTDyWJI/AAAAAAAATII/c9Dqh_8jDlo/s400/dec+26th+201_0115+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284148692301011090" /></a><br /><div>Early Morning Catch<div><br /></div><div>The sun had just come over the horizon when this fisherman was in front of our home looking for some fish that were evading him as his net came up empty for about half an hour.</div><div><br /></div><div>But a little later he sighted a shoal and managed to catch some of them for his 'pot'.</div><div><br /></div><div>I photograph so many fishermen off my balcony over the years and it still fascinates me as the colour of the sea changes over the hours from deep blue greens to crystalline turquoise on our coral island.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8900635712627550641?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-41770056898946731772008-12-26T13:10:00.006-04:002009-04-27T17:31:13.359-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVUQHStVJ_I/AAAAAAAATIA/g2JsNxattv0/s1600-h/dec+25th+201_0132.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVUQHStVJ_I/AAAAAAAATIA/g2JsNxattv0/s400/dec+25th+201_0132.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284147455256242162" /></a>Christmas Day, December 25th<br /><div><br /></div><div>Jet Ski Santa</div><div><br /></div><div>While entertaining friends to a Christmas breakfast this 'santa'was up and down our bay.</div><div><br /></div><div>What a sight for children to see.</div><div><br /></div><div>Wish I still believed in Santa.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-4177005689894673177?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-25830007842499307472008-12-25T00:19:00.005-04:002009-04-27T17:31:47.396-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVMJ6gTt-gI/AAAAAAAATGA/iKEZP7XkIIE/s1600-h/dec+24th+tree+and+parliament101_5606+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVMJ6gTt-gI/AAAAAAAATGA/iKEZP7XkIIE/s400/dec+24th+tree+and+parliament101_5606+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283577688545425922" /></a>It is Christmas Eve and we have just been to a wonderful extended family party where the children performed a charming short theatrical and then we all sang carols around the piano followed by a traditional Caribbean style Christmas dinner. <div><br /></div><div>Driving back home through Bridgetown we saw this sight. The park full of Christmas trees with lights and parliament in the background.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had to stop and we wandered through the park where others were partying, romancing and having fun.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most magical was a young handicapped boy whose eyes were brighter with delight than the tree lights. Pure joy. That's what it is all about.</div><div><br /></div><div>Joyous Season everyone.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-2583000784249930747?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-87983016473211309262008-12-22T19:44:00.004-04:002009-04-27T17:32:16.700-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVAmr_lW5jI/AAAAAAAATEA/Z5ICZyd2Dsg/s1600-h/dec+22nd+xmas+house+lights+101_5511.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SVAmr_lW5jI/AAAAAAAATEA/Z5ICZyd2Dsg/s400/dec+22nd+xmas+house+lights+101_5511.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282764900149945906" /></a><br /><div> Many homes in Barbados decorate their homes inside, but especially outside and this one is no exception.<div><br /></div><div>Even Frosty the Snowman is there, albeit a blow up one.</div><div><br /></div><div>This one is on Highway 1 on the West Coast in Prospect.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8798301647321130926?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-88848212320270784072008-12-21T22:54:00.004-04:002009-04-27T17:32:41.261-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SU8Bm37HA6I/AAAAAAAAS48/QA5gdAZVJJ0/s1600-h/dec+21st100_4318+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SU8Bm37HA6I/AAAAAAAAS48/QA5gdAZVJJ0/s400/dec+21st100_4318+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282442655287411618" /></a><br /><div>What we call double poinsettia in front of a chattel house. This is a very beautiful plant and is much more hardy than the newer varieties we see nowadays.</div><div><br /></div><div>I remember  growing up with this type of poinsettia. And I know that when John Webster sees this will tell me its proper name so I may add it here. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-8884821232027078407?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-66265236520402234042008-12-20T17:47:00.006-04:002009-04-27T17:33:13.769-04:00<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SU1oCG7rClI/AAAAAAAAS1U/H5OOtaRIv74/s400/Dec+20th+Corrie+Scott+Chattel+House+1+100_0093+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281992323405384274" /><div>We have three main flowering bushes that come out in splendour at Christmas time. They are 'Snow on the Mountain', Poinsettia and 'Christmas Candle'.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here we have one of our beautiful traditional chattel</div><div>houses with the bright yellow Christmas Candle flowers. </div><div><br /></div><div>But, this photograph was taken a few years ago.</div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SU1oChosVkI/AAAAAAAAS1c/vOpK1I59oMo/s400/Dec+20th+b+Corrie+Scott+Chattel+House+2+101_2764.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281992330573534786" /><div><br /></div><div>This is the house now and how it has been for well over a year.  </div><div><br /></div><div>The house is still beautiful but so sad not to see it set off beautifully with plants and flowers as before.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whilst it is wonderful that pavements are put in for us on<br /></div><div>the roads it would have been lovely to have cuttings and replanted the area. </div><div><br /></div><div>Could the NCC perhaps be in collaboration with governement when doing this sort of construction and so re beautify our 'photogenic' spots in our island? </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6626523652040223404?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-75933943449115267112008-12-19T11:01:00.008-04:002009-04-27T17:33:34.585-04:00<div>'Peppers'<br /></div><div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUu8uMjdzCI/AAAAAAAASnU/cMcc52KqkeA/s400/dec+19th+peppers-whole-101_5556-copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281522489852021794" /><div><br /></div><div>This is a painting that has been forming for about 3 years. I had done the marking out of spaces as I wanted to create a pixelated effect of habanero (scotch bonnet) peppers in the background.<br /></div><div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUu8s6umpAI/AAAAAAAASm0/-pwLzGHFucQ/s400/peppers-101_5561-copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281522467887031298" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In my studio over the last 2 years I have painted transparent washes in selected squares on the canvas until achieving the many hues I wanted. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I took this unfinished large canvas to <a href="http://http//picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/BarbadosArtsMarathon#">Bam, the 24 hour Barbados Arts Marathon at Lancaster Great House</a>  and then worked on individual 'peppers' in an abstracted form with palette knife, end of a chewed brush and fingers. <br /></div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUvAE6SqeOI/AAAAAAAASnc/17DOB0in5ao/s400/peppers-101_5563-copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281526178621585634" /><br /><div><br /></div><div>Like most of us artists, when I finished it I became very<br /></div><div> dismissive/insecure of it and called it my 'wrapping paper' visual, but I then looked closely at it and saw that I had achieved what I wanted with clean vibrant colours. And that there are clean bright whimsical 'peppers' within the painting within the squares.</div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUu8uEK-kNI/AAAAAAAASnM/ecfUPPdE_d8/s400/peppers-101_5572-copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281522487601828050" /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is a piece that evokes the hot Caribbean colours and hopefully evokes joy when viewed.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I am blessed as someone liked it enough to buy it. <br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>This sale has helped to raise funds for disadvantaged children in Barbados.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Please, come view the art by approximately 60 artists, photographers and sculptors at <a href="http://www.lancastergreathousegallery.com/">Lancaster Great House </a>and help the children of Barbados. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Some of the art, photography and sculpture as it was being created may also be seen on; <br /></div><div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/BarbadosArtsMarathon#">http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/BarbadosArtsMarathon#</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7593394344911526711?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-13458087347670127592008-12-18T16:24:00.004-04:002009-04-27T17:34:05.169-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUqzFEIbNgI/AAAAAAAASl8/Ts6FOwWLC50/s1600-h/dec+18th+sea+101_5539+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUqzFEIbNgI/AAAAAAAASl8/Ts6FOwWLC50/s400/dec+18th+sea+101_5539+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281230412635125250" /></a><br /><br /><div>While working at home this morning I walked out on to the balcony and there was this beautiful sight of a storm out at sea that had passed over the island.<div><br /></div><div>Amazing colours we have here in the Caribbean.</div><div><br /></div><div>And you can see we still have our tiny beach. It has not disappeared yet even though the winter solstice has started.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-1345808734767012759?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-37580996960249093252008-12-17T11:27:00.005-04:002009-04-27T17:34:53.903-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkhJ1hA9MI/AAAAAAAASes/G9eKn83CDfY/s1600-h/dec17th+100_0275.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkhJ1hA9MI/AAAAAAAASes/G9eKn83CDfY/s400/dec17th+100_0275.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280788490936710338" /></a>Ok, have caught up to today finally :)<div><br /></div><div>I had the most wonderful time over the weekend as I spent 24 hours with approximately 60 artists, photographers, sculptors and creators to produce pieces for BAM, the Barbados Arts Marathon at <a href="http://www.lancastergreathousegallery.com/">Lancaster Great House</a> to raise funds for disadvataged children here in Barbados through the Sunshine Optimist Club and The Barbados Community Foundation.  </div><div><br /></div><div>Some wonderful work was created so please come and view and support the children of Barbados.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>I have created an album of the event showing work being produced and then some of the final pieces which may be viewed on; </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/BarbadosArtsMarathon#" style="color: rgb(153, 111, 41); text-decoration: none; ">http://picasaweb.google.com/corriescott/BarbadosArtsMarathon#</a></span></div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkjQoirigI/AAAAAAAASe8/L1BpyOjPiKk/s400/dec+17th+101_5450.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280790806736374274" /><br /></div><div>It was a wonderful, stimulating event with students from schools, Community College and seasoned artists and photographers all working together inside, outside in the gardens, day and night.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The mood was buoyant. Many people visited to see the works in progress and I was lucky enough to have a friend pop by and give me a shoulder and neck rub which revived me. And then she came back next morning and did the same thing. AAAhhhhh   bliss</div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkhJ-tzTeI/AAAAAAAASek/LNLNt3-4qwo/s400/dec17th+100_0272.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280788493406260706" /><div><br /></div><div>Food shared, drinks shared, ideas shared, talked about concepts and lots of laughter, even when exhausted as we went through the 24 hours. Music played. A few slept quietly for a bit wherever they could find space on floor, under tables or garden. Others created the entire time.</div><div> I hid for a few hours by myself and drifted off for a much needed 2 hours to regenerate energy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Virginia Trieloff proposed the idea about a year ago as she does the same in Canada, and Roger Chubb at Lancaster Great House and Virginia co ordinated and created the event. An amazing feat. Thank you Virginia and Roger.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Looking forward to next year.</div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkgW7ggStI/AAAAAAAASeU/MDIwSTAl0x4/s400/dec+17th+Akyem+100_0316.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280787616371854034" /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 111, 41); font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">PRESS RELEASE</span><br /></div><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkfYyDGl6I/AAAAAAAASd0/dxKsxxJuNPQ/s400/dec+17th+100_0298.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280786548680726434" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Come and visit </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lancaster House</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and view the work of over 60 artists as they created pieces for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">BAM,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the first </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">24 hour Barbados Art’s Marathon.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> This is a wonderful opportunity to choose that very special Christmas gift. </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> The aim of the event is to raise funds to enable underprivileged children to purchase art materials through the Sunshine Optimist Club and the Barbados Community Foundation.</span></span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></o:p></span></span></p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkfa5M_f-I/AAAAAAAASd8/XZTgHHLFj4U/s400/dec+17th+100_0301.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280786584960991202" /><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Available for viewing:</span></span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Monday 15</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> – Saturday 20</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><st1:time hour="10" minute="0"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am – 4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Monday 22</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">nd</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> ( by appointment)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Tues 23</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">rd- </span></span>}</span></span><st1:time hour="22" minute="0"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am -4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Saturday 27</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><st1:time hour="10" minute="0"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am-4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Tuesday Dec 30</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><st1:time hour="10" minute="0"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am – 4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Wednesday 31</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">st</span></span>}<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">  </span></span></span></span></span><st1:time minute="0" hour="10"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am – 4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">….</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date year="2009" day="2" month="1"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Friday 2</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">nd</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> January 2009</span></span></span></span></st1:date><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">  </span></span></span></span></span><st1:time minute="0" hour="10"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am-4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time></p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkfcMDnkjI/AAAAAAAASeE/P6ynCjSbbx8/s400/dec+17th+100_0332.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280786607201817138" /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Saturday 3</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">rd</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> January </span></span></span></span><st1:time hour="22" minute="0"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am -4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Sunday January 4</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span>}<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">  </span></span></span></span></span><st1:time minute="0" hour="10"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">10am-4pm</span></span></span></span></st1:time><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">On this same Sunday, January 4</span></span>^{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span>}<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span></span></span><st1:personname><st2:givenname><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Jerome</span></span></span></span></st2:givenname><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span><st2:sn><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Radigois</span></span></span></span></st2:sn></st1:personname><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> will be exhibiting his sculptures </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For</span></span></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> further information please telephone </span></span></span></span><st1:phone phonenumber="2342494"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">234-2494</span></span></span></span></st1:phone><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> or </span></span></span></span><st1:phone phonenumber="4300458"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">430-0458</span></span></span></span></st1:phone><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, belvedere@sunbeach.net</span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></span></p><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-3758099696024909325?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-72681198868244331942008-12-17T10:31:00.005-04:002009-04-27T17:35:41.729-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkP8qKGp6I/AAAAAAAASdk/1UaLjTjju50/s1600-h/GHNS+15th+200_0093+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkP8qKGp6I/AAAAAAAASdk/1UaLjTjju50/s400/GHNS+15th+200_0093+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280769572851853218" /></a><br />Tuesday 16th<div><br /></div><div>More pictures from the last day at Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary on Monday Dec 15th.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div><br /></div><div><p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;">GRAEME HALL NATURE SANCTUARY, INC.</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="color:black;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></u></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Bridgetown</span></st1:city><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Barbados</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><st1:date year="2008" day="16" month="12"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Tuesday, December 16, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Email Contact:                      <wbr>                <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:graemehall@gramehall.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#7799BB;">graemehall@gramehall.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>                             </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Backup Letters, </span><st2:givenname><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Art</span></st2:givenname><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> and Archives:         <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://www.graemehall.com/press.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy;">www.graemehall.com/press.htm</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><u><span style="color:black;">FINAL REVISION</span></u></b><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary Closes</span></u></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">After years of providing educational and environmental programmes to tens of thousands of children and adults, Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary closed on Monday to the public.</span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">“The last day went well, but most people were too hurt and emotional to really speak to me,” said </span><st1:personname><st2:givenname><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Harry</span></st2:givenname><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><st2:sn><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Roberts</span></st2:sn></st1:personname><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">, General Manager of the Sanctuary.  <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>"The closing of GHNS is similar to losing a close friend, so much has been extended not only by me but some of the most committed and cooperative staff that one could find anywhere in the world.”</span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkP8ZBcGlI/AAAAAAAASdc/yn3XEU6R1IM/s400/GHNS+15th+200_0069+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280769568252107346" /> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">A small maintenance and security staff will maintain the bird aviaries and provide minimal ecosystem services until a <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>final decision is made about the future of the Sanctuary.  </span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><st2:sn><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Roberts</span></st2:sn><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> was pensive about his staff. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>“Through their efforts we ran a world class attraction and educational centre, unmatched anywhere in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Caribbean</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">, not only for visitors but for Barbadians as well.  <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I can only hope that it is possible for the Sanctuary to be re-opened as quickly as possible,” said </span><st2:sn><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Roberts</span></st2:sn><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">.</span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Sanctuary officials confirmed that there is strong support from various Ministries, and that there have been positive discussions with government about keeping the Sanctuary open on an interim basis until a permanent action plan for the overall green space at Graeme Hall could be developed.    </span></b><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkP8NUPRYI/AAAAAAAASdU/TaCc11897Y0/s400/GHNS+15th+200_0068+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280769565109732738" /> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">In 2007, over 6,000 Barbadians signed a Friends of Graeme Hall petition that had been submitted to the previous administration in favor of preserving the approximately 240-acre green area at Graeme Hall, and to protect <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>its RAMSAR wetland and wildlife reserve with low-density open and recreational upland buffers.     </span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">As the largest and most significant green space remaining in the urban </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">South</span></st1:placename><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Coast</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> communities between the Airport and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Bridgetown</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">, the proposed green area would include the designated 81-acre RAMSAR wetland approved under the international Convention on Wetlands, the 35-acre Sanctuary, private lands owned by Clico and other smaller landowners, and recreational lands.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">However, the undeveloped lands outside of the 81-acre RAMSAR wetland are currently zoned for residential and urban corridor development according to the current Physical Development Plan. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Officials acknowledged that if such development happened, it would likely kill a majority of the mangrove woodland and wetland ecosystem within Graeme Hall's RAMSAR site.   </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkP77t7sAI/AAAAAAAASdM/BhwUBbf6RFw/s400/GHNS+15th+200_0047+copy.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280769560385662978" /> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">Officials also said that the area needed to be preserved and managed using sound scientific approaches to ensure the health of the wetland and its upland buffers, and that much of the information needed by government to develop a “Master Action Plan” for the Graeme Hall area had already been produced and consolidated by Coastal Zone Management Unit staff.      </span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">More information can be found</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style=" ;font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://www.graemehall.com/press.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy;">www.graemehall.com/press.htm</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">and</span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://www.graemehallnationalpark.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy;">www.graemehallnationalpark.org</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;">.</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-7268119886824433194?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4814294680290540089.post-64013560288359916092008-12-17T10:09:00.006-04:002009-04-27T17:37:02.362-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkJAl_1ctI/AAAAAAAASck/Zr6O2VBUxu4/s1600-h/GHNS+15th+m1+200_0040+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkJAl_1ctI/AAAAAAAASck/Zr6O2VBUxu4/s400/GHNS+15th+m1+200_0040+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280761943873123026" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkJANmY0VI/AAAAAAAAScc/LcreUe_m5eE/s1600-h/GHNS+15th+m2+200_0041+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkJANmY0VI/AAAAAAAAScc/LcreUe_m5eE/s400/GHNS+15th+m2+200_0041+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280761937323938130" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkI_wXkkoI/AAAAAAAAScU/fQEM49K7Kpw/s1600-h/GHNS+15th+m3+200_0042+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkI_wXkkoI/AAAAAAAAScU/fQEM49K7Kpw/s400/GHNS+15th+m3+200_0042+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280761929477165698" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkI_jvYvqI/AAAAAAAAScM/9kRGWL5kiSE/s1600-h/GHNS+m4+200_0043+copy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A7KJIMrHUo8/SUkI_jvYvqI/AAAAAAAAScM/9kRGWL5kiSE/s400/GHNS+m4+200_0043+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280761926087392930" /></a>Monkeys at Graeme Hall on Monday 15th<div><br /></div><div>Loved watching this particular monkey spy the berries and then work his way up the branch to get his treats and then hang upside down to enjoy them.</div><div><br /></div><div>A whole troupe was there on the bank in the area where the migratory birds fly in.</div><div><br /></div><div>There were herons, cattle egrets, a glossy ibis, lots of coots and sandpipers, all communing and totally unaware that a few hours later the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary closed its doors to the public.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am so very saddened by this.</div><div><br /></div><div>But I live in hope as I understand that there are discussions with relevant governement ministers and persons on the way to go forward and work on re opening this beautiful place.</div><div><br /></div><div>We need to keep this in the media and on Facebook  and in any way that keeps this in the forefront of the public.</div><div><br /></div><div>Keep talking about it. Pass the word.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.corriescott.net/">Corrie</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4814294680290540089-6401356028835991609?l=caribbeanserendipity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Corrie Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641335581743715274noreply@blogger.com