Discovering Mexico City: Modern, Vibrant, and Friendly!
We’ve had way too much gray, dreary weather lately. So I’ve gone fishing through my archives to find something to remind me of warm sunny days, and came up with photos from a trip...
The world through my lens
We’ve had way too much gray, dreary weather lately. So I’ve gone fishing through my archives to find something to remind me of warm sunny days, and came up with photos from a trip...
We’ve had some strange climate-changing weather lately. Hardly any snow yet. It’s been crazy warm, so instead of snow, we’ve had rain. And if you live anywhere that gets cold, you know that when...
My favourite photographs from India are of people: what I call street portraits. I don’t ask people to pose, but I do make eye contact, and a connection, when I take their picture.
I’ve wanted to go back to India ever since my first trip there almost five years ago. So I was thrilled when my sister and her husband invited me to join them! This is the first in a series of posts to share the sights and my impressions… how I wish I could share the sounds, smells, and flavours!
I woke early this morning, rolled over and looked out the window. Mist, everywhere! In seconds I was out the door in boots and a fleece jacket, camera in hand. What a magical sight!
It’s probably too late for me to be a real farm girl, but I’m trying to absorb as much as I can by osmosis. So last weekend we checked out the Wolfe Island Plowmen’s Association’s annual plowing match.
Tree swallows moved into our new next boxes this summer. What a treat to watch them nesting, feeding, and fledging!
Last month I once again went for a backcountry canoe camping trip with cameras: a moose safari in Algonquin Park. A wonderful way to immerse myself in nature for a few days, and to see those elusive, giant mammals of the north.
You know how sometimes you’ll be having dinner at a nice waterside restaurant patio, and there are swans on the water so you grab your camera and go lie down on your stomach on the restaurant’s dock so you can take pictures? No? Just me? Not sure what the other diners thought but there I was, lying flat on my belly on the dock. And then the drama happened!
The seasonal ponds in the woods, that dry up by mid-summer but then fill up again the rest of the year, are one of my favourite parts of the woods.