Sometimes I forget what July looks like at this time of year. It helps to wander through old photographs (although NOT last year’s) as a mnemonic device. Last year was an atrocious summer that I think everyone on the east coast of Newfoundland would just as soon gloss over. It would be lovely if this…
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A wander past Quidi Vidi Lake
I took a stroll past Quidi Vidi Lake on my way out of town today. It’s a measure of how crazy winter is driving me that I stopped to take pictures of seagulls. The lake has just frozen over on the western end (the eastern end has been frozen for some time) and the ice,…
Roads go ever on and on…
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains in the moon. – J.R.R. Tolkien* One of my favourite sorts…
Order
On days when I haven’t had enough sleep, I tend to try to pare life down to the essentials. That’s not going to be possible today, so the results of last night’s insomnia will simply have to be shoved aside, hopefully without too many consequences of any severity. Today I am hoping for order amid…
Family
We went over to my parents’ for dinner and I snapped this candid shot of my sister and her son. It’s a little bit unfocussed, as I was shooting erratically-moving subjects at 1/30 of a second, but I think the feeling conveyed overrides any technical aberrations. Having a lens that works in low light with…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 