My previous post was illustrated with photographs of Leonard Cohen's house taken on November 25, 2016. I revisited his house three days later and again on January 6, 2017 and would like to share more photos taken on those two occasions. As you will see, many more flowers and oranges were left at the house.
Also, I want to mention a wonderful Christmas gift that I received from my thoughtful and generous sister, Diane. The photograph above is of this gift which is her painting of Cohen superimposed with many of the words of my favourite song of his, "Alexandra Leaving".
She painstakingly searched for a still image from one of his videos and then took on the arduous and time-consuming process of painting the image and merging it with the text. I am so touched by the thoughtfulness of this gift and so awed by the final result.
I left a small copy of this painting within a gazebo in the park opposite his house where the tributes have been moved.
This last photograph is of a tiny, clinging vine on the bricks of his house. I'm sure there is a metaphor here and were I to have the talent of Leonard Cohen, maybe I could write a poem about it. Perhaps it would deal with the tenacity and subtle beauty of this little hardy plant as it spreads itself in space and time. I think many of these qualities exist in Cohen's works.