Skywatch Friday ~ September 30, 2022

Friday September 30, 2022 is first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a new Canadian statutory holiday to recognize the legacy of the Canadian Indian residential school system. You can read more about it here to understand how the statutory holiday came to be. Yesterday I had lunch with an old and very dear friend of mine. She is now 87 years old and I haven't seen her for a few years. I cannot believe that much time has passed since we had lunch on my street. In the meantime her long time husband has passed on and she has moved from the house they shared to a beautiful apartment not too far from where they lived. She invited me to come and see her new home. Her apartment has two small balconies with the most stunning views of the city. She lives on the 11th floor so I snapped photos to the north and to the east. It clouded over while I visited her and was raining by the time I took these photos and eventually made my way