Photography

As you may be able to tell by looking through my blog...I love photographing nature! I have posted a ton of photos on my FB account. In a recent conversation with a friend he strongly suggested that I publish a coffee table book of my photos. He gave me the name of a company that will self publish them for me for a very reasonable amount of money. Sooo...I am contemplating this.
It means that I'd need to get a higher quality camera...but we'll see how it goes..
I will have to check into the details and see if it's something that I can swing. Well thanks for stopping by.
I was trying to add some of my latest pics on here and my camera died after one download...and it really wasn't even one of the ones that I was wanting to put on..oh well..will add the other ones later. (this is one that Janelle took of me the other day at the park.)




I'm not sure why I had such a goofy look on my face...maybe because Janelle and Seth were taking lotsa pics...who knows...anyway...I've just uploaded the pictures that I was trying to upload yesterday when the camera battery died.

Easter Monday

We had friends over to visit last night and they also have 4 kids. They took our 3 oldest home with them and left their youngest here. Janelle and him had fun last night and today.


Here are some pictures from today.




Here they are climbing around on the playground equipment.






First stop: Tim Horton's for coffee for me and hot chocolate for the kiddos. MMMMM!!


See this...it's hot chocolate!! mmm yummy!

Seth took our picture.



Thanks for the hot chocolate! Do you like my cheesy grin?? =-D


Then we went over to the pier and spent a bit of time there before we headed home.

Happy Thursday.

Here are a couple of pictures of an old hotel in our area. Around the time of World War 1 it ran into financial difficulties which led to it's closure and the eventual salvage of anything reusable. Only the concrete shell was left.
I noticed that they've got strings of lights hanging on it. Must be pretty at night!

Do you lose pictures?

Today all I have for you is a question. Does anyone other than me have photos disappear from your blog? I came on today and I see several empty spots that used to contain pictures. { :-S] [--]==

This is....Spring...?!

This was the view out our front door this morning!! This is April people!!! Not February...but....after saying that I must admit that we had snow last April too! Only it was more like the middle of April last year! aaaaargh

SO..what better way to beat the snow "blues" than to get outside with a hot coffee and a camera and enjoy the great outdoors!! I headed to the lake and went for a walk...breathing in the glorious freshness of a cool winter day. I wish I could bottle up that smell and post it on here so that you could smell what I'm talking about!



























Who ever thought that a seagull could be a thing of beauty?










A huge fish that was laying on the beach...that's my footprint next to it for some perspective on it's size! Sorry if this picture makes you nauseous! :P


A bunch of sea gulls. They're funny to watch. I noticed that even sea gulls have personality! There was one little one that kept "complaining" very loudly and then there was the big one that was bossy and had a really deep "voice"....





















The moss was about the only thing that has any colour.



Do you see the "peach" in the distance? It's a summertime concession stand. Peaches are the theme for our city, since we are surrounded by orchards.

More Spring Break

Well here are a few pictures of us while out on the backroads around here.

The first set of pictures where the horses are behind a fence, are taken at a corral we stopped at. The kids petted the horses and their foals. They enjoyed it alot...the foals were really tame and loved to be scratched. The one tried to nibble on our clothes a few times.































It looks like there was a conversation happening here. =)

After seeing the tame horses we got back in and started driving. After a short drive we came across a bunch of wild horses. There is a pretty big herd of them here.


Can you see the horses up ahead?



We thought they were so pretty!



This guy was showing off his teeth to us. :)


This one had blue eyes! Beautiful but kinda creeepy. [:-S



It has been a really hard winter. The snow came early and stayed late...so almost all the horses are super skinny! :(



This one was too weak to fend off the coyotes.


And this coyote apparently became lunch for someone else. :P yuck!


I let the kids drive...again!