Flickr Contact Organiser

One of my very few pet peeves about the Flickr system is that there is no way of organising contacts other than by degree of photo permissions. The system allows me to segregate all those who have been labelled “friends” or “family” (a level or two above “contact” and therefore having increasing permission to see…

Exploits, a few quick photos

We just got back from a couple of weeks on Exploits Islands in Notre Dame Bay. The weather wasn’t as good as can usually be expected in early August, but it was still a fabulous vacation. Some photos shot during those two weeks….. Looking across to Burnt Cove in the evening: Rope, awaing a ship:…

What floats your boat?

She’d been high and dry for four years and needed scraping, recaulking and paint. Lots of scraping, recaulking and paint! First stop: the Winterton Boat Building Museum for information on recaulking and general boat construction. A caulking demonstration on a rodney at theWinterton Boat Building Museum. The stuff hanging off is oakum. The Winterton museum…

Bouncing off walls – a trip to Grates Cove, NL

I don’t know about anyone else, but I have this mental list of places within driving range that I’ve always wanted to see but haven’t yet gotten to. Gradually, I hope to work my way through them as the fates (Money, Capricious Child and Time) allow. One such was Grates Cove. Now Grates Cove is…

A rose by any other name….

… would still attract slugs. Luckily mine seem to have gotten off relatively unmolested this year. Not so my poor delphinium. The rose above is a bud from “Peace”, which is fairing extraordinarily well this year and was only planted last summer.