To find out more about this year’s photo challenge here on Travel Words, please read this post.
This month we will be looking for Green. Green signals new life in spring, fresh green leaves, the shoots of new bulbs emerging from the soil. It is a cool and soothing colour, bringing us moisture and shade. But green doesn’t have to be all about nature.
Bill Reid’s “The Spirit of Haida Gwaii” (Jade Boat)
A 1996 bronze casting can be seen in YVR International. It is intended to represent the aboriginal heritage of the Haida Gwaii region in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
The 13 passengers in the canoe combine human and animal features. Reid’s factious “myth creatures” are drawn from the Haida world.
Eagle bites Grizzly Bear’s paw, Bear faces his human wife and cradles a club and Mouse Woman shelters beneath Raven’s wing.
Other passengers are Bad Bear and Good Bear, Beaver, Dogfish Woman, Eagle, Frog and Wolf whose claws are embedded in Beaver’s back and teeth in Raven’s wing and the human Shaman as the focal point.
Reid said “at least …. the man in the middle seems to have some vision of what’s to come”
TRAVEL WORDS 
Wow, that’s a lot of jade! No green stories today but more on the way next week. Should I like them here or on the original post? That still confuses me. Green is one of my favorite colors but I’ve found that the problem is that no two shades/hues of green seem to be the same, making it difficult to match with anything else with green in it. That’s all I’ve got. 🙂
janet
Link to the most recent one is probably best. I should see the pingback anyway. I don’t wear a lot of green although I do like khaki or olive. And I have a bedroom painted in a dark green!
That’s a beautiful sculpture, Jude. Thank you for hosting. Here’s my green entry:
Thanks Natalie.
Interesting piece and story.
Thank you 😊
Hi Jude, I jumped on the “green” wagon this week with my Sunday Stills challenge (not knowing you had green for the whole month, when I initially chose and published my themes for March). I love how great, green minds think alike. Here is mine! https://secondwindleisure.com/2021/03/21/sunday-stills-monthly-color-challenge-spring-green/
Thanks Terri. A coincidence we have selected the same colour for March.
This is a beautiful piece of work and must have taken many hours to complete.
Snuck another one in Jude as Terri had Green as a theme too 🙂 🙂
Can’t have enough greens at this time of the year here in the northern hemisphere.
I have many 🙂