Windsor Alley Metamorphosis: Butterfly Lane

Butterflies are often seen as beautiful, mysterious and hold a special symbolism and meaning. They are considered a metaphor representing transformation, change, courage, hope, and life. Welcome to Butterfly Lane. 

Thanks to the Brain Injury Association of Windsor & Essex County, residents, city councillor, Chris Holt, and many local artists, the 1100 block of Devonshire Road is bursting with butterflies. The Butterfly Lane mural project was created to raise awareness and the prevalence of brain injury in our community and is quite the sight to see.

A snapshot of just a few favourite art pieces from our walk

One of my favourite movie lines from Ferris Bueller's Day Off reminds me that "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."  I'm so glad we stumbled across this little area. I had no idea it even existed, but that's the fun of exploring the city you live in, you always find new things you never encountered before. 

I hope you enjoy your stroll through Butterfly Lane as much as we did.

💜Check out the Butterfly Lane Mural Facebook Page to learn more about the artists and their work.

CMHA/Arts & Cultural Alliance: Healing The Creative Soul

Bill and I share a lot of "firsts" together and I wanted to post about attending our first art class together!  It was very therapeutic and a really great way to showcase our individual artistic talents.

Our community has a lot of excellent workshops that I didn't even know about and it seems like these events are very well-attended.  They even have ones geared for specific age demographics.

A wonderful resource for mental health: Canadian Mental Health Association

Click the link to see when the next workshop takes place: Arts & Cultural Alliance of Windsor

The teacher showing us what we would be painting

Having fun before class started
All supplies were provided too!

Okay so I started off following instructions, and then somehow I felt inspired to create my own piece of work and just rolled with it. No one minded and I received a lot of compliments afterwards.

My finished painting. 

 

Bill is quite the artist! Beautiful work. 

We have both of these paintings hung up upstairs in the hallway. :)