Last week was exhausting. First there was the Canadian Election where the Liberal's won the most seats and get the first opportunity to form another government with Mark Carney as PM. While I was hoping for a majority of seats for the Liberals in this round, I'm relieved at the …
One of the best gardening things is to have crocus bulbs in your lawn. They come up when the snow is thinning, and in years like this, they are out while we have a couple late snow storms.
They are great, and just the colour that we need after what …
The sunflowers and bees are just around the corner
To make sure that everyone in my extended family can enjoy the ginger molasses delicious-ness, I made a version of ginger molasses cookies without butter.
I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses. When it was time to put our portion in a tin, I noticed that it was round! The tin is over 20 years old! I have a few of the hexagon ones too, and …
We took a walk around Point Pleasant Park yesterday, and the lighting was perfect. Lots of dramatic clouds and filtered light.
Would recommend.
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Halloween weekend is over, the weekend that everyone does their parties, and trunk-and-treating. We went to a party with other like minded aka Covid is still everywhere and we don't want to get sick families on the weekend too.
Other than a halloween party, and a lot of autumn chores …
I have an older Canon Powershot SX260HS (my archive link) that I think is the pinnacle of handy point-and- shoot cameras. It has GPS, enough pixels, a decent zoom range and can fit in a jacket pocket with ease.
However, my camera has been through things. I took it to …
A couple of weeks ago we went for a wander in the woods, and I was skimming through the pictures today and noticed something that I didn't see before, a slug under the moss. I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture, I just thought that the little …
I was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing. So instead I just made the fstop number bigger (aperture smaller). Tomorrow I will probably add my flash for a flash for a full fledged macro-setup and turn the fstop to 11 …