Leif Eriksson Day
This page started out to be about the clouds. So I
inserted ships into the clouds in the sky that I added using a photo of mine
with a blend mode of lighten. I like the effect it gave the trees in the
bottom to look like a mountain behind the mist.
Then I got my Almanac newsletter that talked about Leif
Eriksson, so it turned into a page about him discovering North America. I
imagined all of the creatures looking on as the ship approached their land.
And I ended up with the scene above.
Journaling reads:
There's a beautiful cloud-fleet passing by,
With white sails all unfurled;
Let's take a sail o'er the blue expanse,
And visit the mystery-world.
–Mary L. Wyatt, Australian poet (d. 1941)
Today is Leif Eriksson Day, Oct. 9th. Who was this Viking explorer, exactly? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, “Leif
Erikson, Erikson also spelled Eriksson, Ericson, or Eiriksson, Old Norse Leifr
EirÃksson, byname Leif the Lucky, (flourished 11th century), Norse explorer
widely held to have been the first European to reach the shores of North
America. The 13th- and 14th-century Icelandic accounts of his life show that he
was a member of an early voyage to eastern North America, although he may not
have been the first to sight its coast.”
Credits list:
Ship
to Shore Wordart by Lynne Anzelc
Ship
to Shore by Lynne Anzelc
Font for journaling is Arial Narrow
Photo of the clouds is mine
