lights - M&M's Musings

Hi Folks:

Whether you celebrate Christmas or Festivus, Solstice or Saturnalia, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or something entirely personal, we wish you and those close to you a safe and happy Holiday Season, and a New Year with as much joy, love, adventure, peace and excitement as you can handle!!

The blog has been a little quiet of late, but we’ll be back with much more in 2014, so our continued thanks to you for stopping by!!

With Hugs,
Marcia and Mike.

P.S. The photograph is a composite made from 75 images, shot on the corner of the Legislative Grounds. If you’re not familiar with Victoria, the Inner Harbour is on the far left, then there’s the Empress Hotel, the Royal BC Museum and then the lights of the Legislative bldg.

Hi Folks:

As you probably know, Saturday night from 8:30-9:30 local time was ‘Earth Hour‘.Â Originally conceived by the World Wildlife Fund and the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney, Australia in 2007, it has since become a world-wide event.Â Marcia and I were wondering how much participation there would be in Victoria so we headed up to the top of Christmas Hill to find out.Â Christmas Hill is part of the Swan Lake/Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary here in Victoria, and being a large rock outcrop in about the middle of the city, it affords a spectacular view of the city and beyond.Â We were pleased by what we saw.Â Although street lights and outside lights for some businesses needed to stay on for safety reasons, much of the city was otherwise dark.Â I made a quick video with my cell phone camera, a 360Â° panorama, which you can see below.Â NB: I’m a photographer not a videographer, and there places where it was so dark that the camera had to hunt for focus.Â That however, is the point!

: Click on the image to view the video

Our thanks to everyone in Victoria and around the world who participated in Earth Hour.Â It’s a way of saying that you care about this little blue marble we call ‘home’.

Hugs,
Marcia and Mike.