WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: REFLECTIONS

‘Tis the season to feel stressfully slightly overloaded! Humming joyful holiday songs only works for so long  … Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel or Jingle Bells … whatever helps.  Normally I love the busy bustle of the holiday season. However,  *cue doleful organ music*, I am lagging far behind with everything at the moment, and in my

CBBH PHOTO CHALLENGE: BLUE

If it’s Friday, it must be France … I’m combining one of my favourite photo challenges with my Friday France post today because all of the “blue” photos I’m posting here were taken in France. The CBBH Photo Challenge originates on the East Of Malaga blog. Zip on over and see the fab photos Marianne

Weekly Photo Challenge: GEOMETRY

This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Quintin Lake of Quintin Lake Architectural Photography. Click on the link  for more about this week’s theme and his photography tips! Geometry: This challenge is about the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world. Here’s my shot looking through the porches of the change huts

CBBH Photo Challenge: Windows

If it’s Friday, it must be France … Okay, I know it’s Sunday, not Friday, … life is crazy but I am still managing to keep track of the days … honest! Out of respect I wanted to leave my post about Amanda Todd in place all last week. Thus and therefore, I’m a tad

Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty Eudora Welty was a well-known author of short stories and novels about the American south. She was also an avid photographer, like many writers. Often the seed of a story begins with a thought captured in a photo. So, photo lovers, here we go

Weekly Photo Challenge: MINE

I wondered how long I could resist this! I’ve been enjoying everyone else’s contributions in this photo challenge group so much, my resolve has slipped. I’m in! Click on this link if you want to join the Weekly Photo Challenge or to see how other entrants express themselves with the click of the shutter. You never

How do you capture the colour?

If it’s Friday, it must be France … Well it’s actually a little bit of France, Spain and Italy today. Do you like to take photos? I’ve been snapping away since I excitedly unwrapped … alright, I know that was a very, very long time ago but I’m positive I was extremely excited to get

An addiction to the doors of France

If it’s Friday, it must be France … I love the front doors of people’s homes in France. Every time I visit that magnificent country I take endless numbers of photos of doors (okay, and windows too … but that’s another post). The wood, the trim, the left-over remnants of ancient locks, from simple and

Summer’s over? How did that happen?

Well that’s it, right? Labour Day (or Labor, for our friends south of the border) weekend, no matter where you live in North America, is the signal that summer is over. In Toronto, the Canadian National Exhibition (fondly referred to as The Ex or the CNE) has been a feature during the last two and