A morning sort of person

I have always maintained that there are sunrise people and sunset people. Being one doesn’t necessarily preclude enjoying the other, of course, but there are people who pick where they live and what they do based on whether they like to see the sun rise or set. There are people who roll out of bed…

Bits and pieces

My sister and I took a meander outside of town today to Chapel’s Cove. We had a nice little visit with Linda and the critters at Baynoddy and a pleasant lunch at The Pantry in Holyrood (huge portions, not expensive and very good!). I didn’t take all that many photos as it was more of…

Dumb, dumb, dumb

There are so many things about photography that you can’t control. You can’t control the weather. You can’t control the actions of wild animals. You can’t control when a sudden beam of light might penetrate the clouds and hit the water (although you might just be able to predict it with some alacrity). But you…

Catching up

I’ve been climbing these stairs a lot lately. The combination of meetings, picking up paperwork, more meetings, clay classes, dropping in for a consultation with various folk and so forth have cemented the autopilot in my mind such that I find myself drifting towards Devon House (and the Craft Council) when downtown for other matters….

Molten

There was a weird sort of visual effect when the sun came up this morning and it’s not just some trick of the camera. In the above picture you can see striations of the atmosphere. Below, you can see a sort of halo of orange around the sun (easier to see this in the smaller…