It’s funny how attached you can get to certain objects. I think we’re particularly vulnerable to forming bonds with cameras and other artistic tools, since they help us to formulate that bridges between how we see the world and how we recreate it. My first camera was this Olympus. It was a gift and I…
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All Around the Circle, part 2: If you gogo to Fogo….
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we three intrepid travellers set out to go “All around the circle,” this summer, after spending three weeks on Exploits Islands. When last we left off this saga, the Family Taylor-Hood had finished Twillingate and was about to embark upon the trek to Fogo. First off, there are…
All Around the Circle, part 1 (Moreton’s Harbour and Twillingate)
Hip-yer-partner Sally Thibault Hip-yer-partner Sally Brown Fogo, Twillingate, Moreton’s Harbour, All around the circle I’ve wanted to go “all around the circle” for years and years, but have never made the time. Each year we drive up to Cottlesville (north of Gander, south of Twillingate), take the boat across to Exploits Islands and after a…
Exploits vacation 2011, part 1
This year was a mixed bag on Exploits Islands (Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland). During our first week down, it was cold, the wood stove was not installed in the main house, Mom got horribly, awfully sick and it rained. And rained. And was cold. And wet. Still, we managed to have a good deal of…
It’s Monday
We had our Craft Council Annual General Meeting over the weekend and I’m just plain tired. Today is a day for puttering around the house, doing a myriad of odd jobs and playing a bit with some new ideas in the studio. It’s also Monday, with a capital “M”. I was cutting a piece of…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 