Places you travel to leave memories with each of your
senses. To hear. To taste.
To smell. To feel.
To see… A flash of
color can carry me back through time and space on a memory that will make me
smile.
Red takes me to the savannah of Kenya. Himself and I spent 30 days in Kenya for our
25th wedding anniversary. The highlight
of our trip was spending time with the Maasai children we sponsor. The men wear bright red plaid wraps which are
strikingly bright in the African sun. Red
takes me to the boma of N’tikoisa and the incredible day when I became a Maasai
elder.
Yellow brings the scent of salt air and memories of gentle
rocking. Himself works as a medical officer
on a fish processor ship in Alaska. When
I’ve gotten to travel with him, I’ve spent contented hours sitting or standing
on the ‘bitt’ with memories flowing into me.
Gull squawking, eagles soaring, the pong of fish smell. Unique memories of a unique world.
Green, green, and more green; that is the color of my
memories of Costa Rica. Gliding down a
river the guide says “Look! A large
iguana!”
“Where?”
“Right there!”
“Okaaaay… OH! There he is!”
A bit of Jurassic green among the leaves.
Blue is a boat being paddled across Lake Victoria in Kisumu,
Kenya. Paddled long the edge of a
country through waters that have created civilizations as it became the Nile. Paddled into a group of hippos. Creaks of the boat. Grunts of the hippos. Look towards the horizon…blue boat, blue
paddles, blue sky, blue water.
White is cold and snow.
On Adak Island an eagle has landed, making an impression in the snow. At home I run to the deck when an eagle
happens to fly down the river. Here, on
Adak, eagles are as numerous as robins in spring. As I sit on a rock that is the only non-snowy
area along the beach, eagles are all around me. Landing in the snow. Flying past snow covered mountains. Swooping to snatch fish out of the ice
studded bay. How many photos did I take
that day? A hundred? Two hundred?
This post is written as an entry to a contest at Travel
Supermarket (http://www.travelsupermarket.com/default.aspx
). For “Capture The Color” we are to
blog about favorite travel photos featuring the colors red, yellow, green, blue,
and white.
Also for the competition, they asked for 5 bloggers I follow
to be ‘nominated’ to take part. I follow
some pretty incredible photographers and it was hard to pick just five. I decided by thinking of those who’s photo
continually blow me away. In no particular
order:
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