We All Start With ‘C’

January 8, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A cardinal, Common merganser, covy of Common redpoll, a chickadee. For Bird Weekly’s challenge: birds that start with ‘c’.

A Closer Look

January 7, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

V.J.’s Weekly Challenge: Essential A’s….

January 4, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Appreciation and acknowledgment. Two things I liked to affirm at the end of my workshops or classes. To each individual participant I’d offer gratitude for one thing I’d gained from them and acknowledgment of their journey by offering a wish. As we welcome in a New Year, I thought this exercise would adapt well here. […]

Wing Envy

January 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Bird Weekly challenge is to post photos of birds with long wingspans. Our larger birds have flown south for the winter, but the birds of prey remain, and of course, the Canada geese.

There’s a ‘u’ in there…

December 31, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Church Flurry (birds) in a flurry (snow) (For Cee’s Midweek Madness challenge: Words that contain the letter ‘u’.)

Christmas

December 22, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Unique ornaments, each representing Christmas’ gone by, decorate our tree. This year, it will be just the two of us enjoying this family tradition. (For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge: Christmas.)

The Mice Are Stirring

December 21, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A favourite Christmas ornament for Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Here comes the holiday season.

VJ’s Weekly Challenge #125: heartwarming

December 14, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Mom, having survived three heart attacks, is now back in her nursing home under quarantine. Not that we can see her anyway; everything is back in lockdown. But there is a loophole. Two essential workers, meeting the Provincial criteria and having been cleared by a COVID test, can visit. My sister applied as she lives […]

The Christmas Party

December 13, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Who would dress like that?!” Brad immediately regretted the outburst, but having just stepped into the warmth and wiping the wintry slush from his eyes, he was taken off guard. Loretta Vox stood, back to the doorway, a looming presence in black, save for the glitter of a tiara in her upswept hair and a […]