Thanksgiving

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A time to be thankful - for friends, family and all that life has to offer. 

Mushrooms stuffed with cheese and peppers and wrapped in bacon

Caprese salad

Chocolate mousse cake

Lemon cheesecake

Driving East

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Day One - Ontario to New Brunswick

Easter weekend 2015. After a last minute decision and a flurry of activity, we were off to Nova Scotia, or NS, as we like to call it. The little house by the ocean had a special place in our hearts. So many wonderful memories of times spent there with family and friends. Now, however, it was time to say goodbye as Mom and Dad had sold the property.

The sun rises over a sleepy Toronto (photo credit: Lillian)

There were three of us in the car. Others had gone the week before and were eagerly awaiting our arrival. At the start of the trip we had agreed to play a game - one iPhone photo per person per hour on the road - a picture that showed where we were or what was happening at that moment. 

Day One iPhone Pics

Driving through Quebec was incredible. The sun shone and we rolled down the windows - it was that warm.

There is a spot along the St. Lawrence river where we always take a quick break and it did not disappoint. The scenery was as epic as ever but the lighting took our breath away. Dark blue storm clouds with sunshine peeking through turned the grasses to gold. 

Day Two - New Brunswick to Nova Scotia

We woke up the next morning to an unpleasant sight - a snowstorm had moved in overnight.  The positively spring-like weather of the previous day had been replaced with frigid winds and thickly falling snow. Oh Canada.

The highway was empty except for a few random cars and a single snowplow. Having worried incessantly the previous day about keeping the winter tires on for such a long trip, we were increasingly grateful for them.

Day Two iPhone Pics

We knew the East Coast was still under a mountain of snow. The first sign of the sheer amount of it was first evident at the Nova Scotia Welcome Centre - the snow banks were huge! 

Do not enter (photo credit: Laurence)

As we continued east, the snowbanks grew in size and encroached on the roads. Three times we turned right and ended up in random parking lots because we couldn't see the signs for the piles of snow.  The people of NS, the entire east coast for that matter, had been experiencing a brutal winter. One for the books, in fact, and it didn't look like the snow was going anywhere fast. 

October Snows

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Our autumn has been gorgeous - sunshine and warm weather well into the year. However, the first snow fell early - mid October, in fact. The snow stayed for only a few hours, melting quickly once the sun came out but it gave us enough time to enjoy a unique experience - fall colours and snow. At the same time.

The girls enjoyed a good romp in the snow - rolling down hills and shaking the branches of the snow-covered maple tree.

Getting Started

Most days the journey looks like this

This project has been a long time in the making. I've started many times, pressed pause for any number of reasons and picked it up again numerous times. There have been many ups and downs but it is now time to take the leap and officially publish both this website and blog.

As many of you know, more often than not these days I'm found with a camera in my hands. It's a hobby, one that I find myself falling in love with more and more as the years go by. My pictures, however, have gathered dust on various hard drives and rarely are shown to family and friends. This, then, is the primary purpose of these pages - to share with you the images I have captured and the memories that go along with them.

I've discovered that most of my photos fall into three areas of life.  Photography - portraits and images of people, travel - landscapes and images of places I've been lucky enough to visit, and life - the great and small of everyday living.

I've learned heaps about photography over the years but I have a long way to go and I hope that this site will give me another opportunity to do just that.

I look forward to sharing my images and thoughts with you and would greatly appreciate any comments or feedback you may have!