A New Day, A Different Way The creative and photographic endeavours of a woman trying to add color and beauty to her world.

This is round two for a posting I did a couple months ago.  These murals line our entire downtown area and are actually quite a tourist attraction.  There are so many I could probably do a posting on them every day for week but that might be a bit boring.  But for today I thought a post would be fun.  These particular murals line one entire alleyway.  I think it is kind of cool that they think to line an alley which doesn't actually get a lot of traffic with such amazing artwork.  Some of these are taken from quite an angle but I couldn't help that with the alley, there wasn't always a lot of access.  I think my favorite is the couple with their arms around each other. What is yours?

These are a few random shots I took over the last week as I went about my life, it is amazing what you can find to photograph if you just keep your eyes open.  I came out of the art supply store the other day and noticed the little old tractor sitting in the corner of the parking lot.  They are using it to plow the winter snow.  It was old and decrepit but somehow it appealed to me.  When I finished taking a few shots I turned around to walk back to my car and saw the two little birds having a wonderful bath in the puddle on top of the dumpster.  I know that I could have made the color of the birds brighter with Lightroom but since I won't have access to it again until the end of the month I can't right now and I thought they were too cute just as they are not to share. 

Downtown Vernon boast one of the largest outdoor public art galleries in Canada.  Twenty-five amazing murals, some as large as 300 feet long and 40 feet high, depict the history, culture, scenery and folklore of Vernon.  They are on a number of large civic buildings such as the post office, the side of the big box office supply store and some are even hidden in back alleys and are hard to find.

I could probably do three or four posts on these murals alone there are so many and I will likely do more in the future but yesterday I drove around town looking for some of the hidden gems, the ones on the sides of parking lots, hiding in the back alleys and even on the side of one of the local tattoo shops.  A lot of these photos are taken at quite an angle because they are in alley's and that is the only way I could get a large part of the mural in the photo. I didn't edit these pictures at all so they show piles of snow and cars parked next to them.  I wanted people to see them how we as residents see them as just part of the local scenery.  Although truth be told us locals get so used to seeing them we don't even notice them half the time.  It wasn't until I went looking for them yesterday that I actually noticed how many are out there and how beautifully they are done, of course the photos don't actually do them justic.