The Bow Tower

The circled building is
where I used to live

Calgary has a new skyscraper called The Bow . I lived downtown when they started construction on it 4 years ago and it's a massive 775 feet that covers the majority of two city blocks. It's the tallest building in Canada outside Toronto.

massive hole for the future Bow Tower

I took a picture from my apartment window when it was just a hole in the ground and unfortunately it was going to cut out my tiny view I had of the mountains. I'd rather see the mountains from afar then skyscrapers that are billboards . Anyway, the tower is made of steel. While I don't find it beautiful , it is visually interesting , like most buildings .

Plinky Prompt: What famous buildings do you find most beautiful?
Alphabe Thursday: Letter B

Atishoo

I never knew that sneezing was an early symptom of the plague, nor did I know this nursery rhyme was about the plague:

Ring a ring a roses,
a pocket full of posies.
Atishoo, atishoo,
we all fall down




I am participating in Alphabe Thursday about the letter "A"

Water Wave & Whirlpools

The land of the rising sun

Here are some descriptive words for water that begin with the letter W: wet, wild, wavy, woosh, notice Tsunami is not one of them and it isn't what we mean when we want water except this is what happened on March 11th , 2011 after the earthquake in Japan:

Whirlpool

whirlpool seen near Oarai City, north eastern Japan

Wave

Hokusai’s The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa

UPDATE: Here are some more pictures of the devastating Tsunami

Well, we know Jen @ hamster central who lives in Tokyo , is safe , Angela Liddon from Ohsheglows is having a fundraiser of her own . To everyone who donates $5 to the Japan disaster relief you will be entered in her giveaway . People have been very supportive and it's truly astounding that she overceded her initial goal of $1,000 and has quintupled (is that a word?) it .Wow ! as I type this it is actually 6 (going on close to 7 times more @ $6704.00 ) than what she had expected! Angelas giveaway ends tonight but I hope you don't miss this opportunity to "catch the WAVE" if you will :p pardon me but it does sound pretty witty . However, the big wave off the coast of Sendai Japan, caused lots of damage this past week with the threat of a nuclear meltdown.

In Canada we are still walking in Wintery Weather conditions with the possible chance of snow again this weekend. Yes, even when we set our clocks ahead it never ends . Wah wah wah. So without further ado here is my tribute to winter