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Summer is Here!!
Our warm spring has meant tons of good grazing and an early hay cut for the animals and a garden bursting with yumminess for us (and our CSA and market customers!)
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Very Quiet Sheep
After the shearing was done, from a distance it looked like all the sheep had lined up neatly along the fence and fallen sound asleep! Can’t wait to see what Leola (of Leola’s Studio in Duncan) will...
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Spot the Difference: Farmstand Edition
Each week we should give a prize to the first person who correctly identifies the changes we’ve made to the amazing portable farm stand! We didn’t quite get it 100% done before the first week of the...
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Midsummer Night Sky
One of the glorious things about this time of year is how long the days are… By ten pm I am still scurrying around, putting the last of the chickens to bed. One of the worst things about this time of...
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Without warning I found myself
… in Alaska… On a boat… A large boat… Watching my daughter get married. The coolest part about this photo is not that there’s a glacier behind me or that it was actually quite chilly, but that the hat...
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This Month, it’s All About Trees
There is nothing like a deadline to inspire a burst of creative energy! My newest book (co-written with my daughter, Dani) has just come out and we are busy planning a cool book launch, hopefully in...
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The Holly and the Ivy (and the cabbage and the cigarette)
Dad is having his revenge. Today as we were driving to the local raw food/wrap shop to pick up scraps for the pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, et al (yes, there is still some farming going on around...
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Japanese Maple
One of the first ornamental trees we planted when we moved here was a Japanese maple – two, actually. One has stayed tiny and red, the other has become a giant (for the diminutive maple). Both Dad and...
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Eggs
A bowl full of hard-boiled turkey eggs destined for the very lucky pigs… (With a strange photo filter that makes them look like they are under water and very blotchy).
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Home is Where the Travel Books Live (Photo 101)
Way back when I was a regular blogger I took up various ‘one a day’ challenges and found the discipline of coming up with a daily post both fun and useful. This month I am busy with a ton of writing...
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Street Scene (Photo 101)
I live on a rather small, quiet street – utterly unremarkable and (at least today) not one I felt inspired to photograph. I was casting my mind about for photos depicting street scenes and the one that...
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Day Three – Water and Orientation (Photo101)
Water – horizontal Water – vertical Yes, I am waaaaay behind on my daily photo challenge!! A couple of words of analysis on this challenge: Vertical orientation = more about the fish. Horizontal...
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Day 4 – Bliss (Photo 101)
Define Bliss – Day 4 Photo 101 Challenge Define my bliss. Hm. The Good Buddhist Answer would be that my bliss is wherever I find myself, that no one moment is better than any other moment, that all...
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Day 5 – Solitude and the Rule of Thirds (Photo 101)
Plane spotter on Saint Martin… Cropped the original slightly so both plane and spotter were more or less on the imaginary grid lines dividing the image into thirds… The sun is more or less a third of...
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Day ? (Photo 101)
Be not afraid… Losing track of the days (this is what happens when one falls too far behind in the homework department!!) I seem to recall one of the next challenges was looking at natural lines and...
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Day 11 – a Pop of Color (Photo 101)
A splash of colour… In a brash move (in the spirit of yesterday’s post), I am posting this assignment out of order! The challenge was to choose one bold colour possibly set off against a neutral...
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Day 12 – architecture and monochrome (Photo 101)
Snapped this yesterday when walking up the stairs to rooftop parking at a local shopping mall. A very ordinary photo was made more dramatic by converting to black and white and upping the contrast a...
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