First Birthday in Canada

June 6, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Cake for breakfast. A trip to the trampoline park. An afternoon bbq and swim. “Best birthday ever!” proclaimed the star of the day.

Birds: Always In Season

January 19, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Haven’t been out with the camera recently, but here are some photos from my archives. (For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: birds .Featured image is a family of Canadian Geese.)

Homeschooling

January 10, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

We’re in lockdown again, in Ontario, Canada, and that means back to homeschooling, so Grumpa and I have offered our services a couple of days a week to oversee the studies. Not so taxing – these two are avid students. The dog, on the other hand, is not impressed.

A Story and A Wish

December 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Originally posted on One Woman's Quest II:
Table six in the fourth floor dining room at the long-term care facility is a favourite with the staff. Ninety-eight-year-old Dorothy leads the pack with her no-nonsense attitude. Beside her sits Verna, just eight years her junior, who always has a smile and a kind word for…

Shapes and Design

November 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: shapes and design.

Cloud Trails

August 29, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Weekend Sky

August Closeup

August 5, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness Photo challenge: August closeup or macro.

Reflected

July 25, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black & White Challenge: reflections and mirrors

These Tails Have ‘Tude

June 23, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Apparently, birds with long tail feathers have escaped my camera lens, to for Bird Weekly challenge, I submit these images of tails that have attitude:

Oh, Baby!

April 20, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Haven’t seen any chicks yet, so had to sift through the archives. Featured, the goslings are trying to keep up. Freshly hatched chicks. Not quite newborns, but young Ibis. (For Bird Weekly Challenge: baby birds)

Now That I Matter

The times I waited –restless and ragingdeliberately put on holddismissed, degraded, ignored. Why did I put up with that?Was I so afraid I’d lose it all?So uncertain about a future? How the children came to meneed in their eyes, little armsbegging to be embraced,and I too blinded to reach outfixated on the anger, powerless,immersed myself […]

Flowers and Rain (haiku)

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)