It must be spring ...

look who we found on our walk this morning.

Carved tree

I thought I had seen all the carved trees in London, but I found another one yesterday morning when we went to the Western Fair Farmer's Market!  

Drive by shooting in Toronto

Zoomed in and out of Toronto last Saturday for my niece Emily's studio open house.  Didn't take many shots but got these as I hung out the window of the van.

Someone should tell them this building is falling over and may wipe out downtown

Spring is here!

Not the best photos, but look what I found in my garden on Tuesday when I got home from work! Every day I see more plants peaking through the ground.

Look up, look way up

After going to the yard waste depot (I'm not bragging, but it was a gorgeous day here in SWO), John and I stopped at Zubick's scrap metal so that I could get some shots of these fantastic sculptures. 

Road Trip to Arenal

Watching Wheel of Fortune the other night, a contestant won a trip to Aye-ray-nul in Costa Rica.  Took me a few seconds, but I suddenly realized hey!  I've been there ... they mean Arenal!  Above is a shot of the elusive volcano, taken from the main strip of Fortuna.

Lake Arenal is a world famous wind-surfing destination.  To get to the volcano from Joellen's house you have to drive almost all the way around this lake.  The views are spectacular!
This visit we stayed in a hotel on the strip.  It was actually very nice, our rooms faced inward, onto the hotel courtyard. Breakfast was included at this great restaurant up the road (see my coffee blog).
Fortuna is a small town at the foot of the volcano - not sure I would buy a house there - after all it is a live volcano.  As you can see it is a tourist destination.

Here is John, captain of the trusty Trooper .... at least it was trusty this trip thank goodness!

Western on a cold March afternoon

John sent me out at lunch today to take pictures on campus.  It was a bloody cold day is all I can say, but I loved the high contrast of the red outside the McIntosh Gallery, which is the art gallery on campus.  Tomorrow maybe I will stick to indoors as my fingers FROZE today!

Okay the next ones are the "classic Western" photos.

Portraiture Part II

Serious John

Impatient for spring

I am very impatiently waiting for spring so I went through some old photos ... these are from years past, but all were taken before the end of March.  Better get out there and rake the beds this weekend so they have half a chance!

Portraits

Did my first session in portraiture yesterday and learned that there is a lot to learn and then you have to remember it all!  It was a lot of fun, we got to use studio lights and reflectors and practice shooting each other.  Here are a couple of shots I took today of my handsome man. I am certain I will be driving everyone crazy from now on,  as I need willing subjects to practice on.