When the cold days, the grey days, the short days of winter seem like they will never end, all I have to do is put on my David Rudder CD and I am immediately back in the warmth, hearing the waves crashing gently on the beach.
So says the journaling under the top left photo (the view from Grand Anse Beach, Grenada). It sounds corny but it's true. David Rudder never said a truer thing when he wrote Song for a Lonely Soul.
The other photos were taken in Barbados (the bird of paradise) and Martinque (the fishing boat and the hibiscus).
When I last listened to the CD, I toyed with the idea of doing a scrapbook page based on this song. So when I was recently challenged to create a page using the colours of blue and orange and including the lyrics from a song, I knew immediately that these photos combined with this song would be perfect.
After looking at my photos from my recent trip home a friend remarked that I had more photos of scenery than of people, and that I'd become a real tourist! In a way this is true, but what I've realised is that living outside the Caribbean has given me an appreciation for all the little things I took for granted. What I used to consider "just bush" has now become stunning landscape. The hibiscus has to be the most beautiful flower created, how come I never noticed that before? Or saw how many different shades of blue and indigo make up the Caribbean Sea?
We took close to 1000 photos, digital and print, on that trip home. Stay tuned for more pages as I scrapbook my favourites.
Awesome page and love the dialog :-) I too have a greate appreciation for those things.
Posted by: Vernell | April 10, 2006 at 01:18 PM
That's a beautiful page. Have you posted any others?
Posted by: sungoddess | May 14, 2007 at 07:30 PM