Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Home is where the birds sing

Home. Bike ride through the fruit orchards Grimsby to Beamsville Ontario.

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Home. Break time from Oakville galleries on Lakeshore Rd. E, Oakville Ontario.

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Home. Celebrating Victoria day a week early with sparklers.

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Home. Taking the long road through a rain storm.

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Home. My magical garden.

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Nouvelle Écosse

On the occasion of a Wednesday off I would like to share with you my experience in Nova Scotia this past May.

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Staple cloud photo flying over Canada on my way to the sweet little Atlantic province I dreamed of visiting for years.

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I opened the blinds the morning after I arrived to see this - the village of Salmon River Bridge.

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My first Nova Scotia beach.

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My first Nova Scotia national park "Taylor Head". Fog. Grey sea and white sand. Eerie forest.

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Abandoned house along the Eastern shore.

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My second Nova Scotia beach that stretched for miles along a pennisula on the Atlantic ocean outside of the tiny village of Boylston.

My last day in Nova Scotia, after going to Cape Breton and driving through many a village I ended up at the Northumberland Strait for dinner. Stunning beach. waves and soft sand. PEI in the distant horizon.
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and this is where I feel most at home - with nothing before except open water.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A week in Austin, Texas

Polaroid and Holga photos of my visit to an amazing city in the deep south.

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State Capitol, which can be seen from the other end of Congress Ave.

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After shopping in SoCo and nearly being run down by a Texan on the telephone, I walked backed to T&T's and saw this weird... bird/bat house.

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Bike ride in Hyde Park.

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River side, San Antonio, TX.

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A questionable sign, San Antoinio, TX.



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the sunny spot, T&T's house, Austin, TX.

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Shiner ice cream sold here, SoCo, Austin, TX.

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Innerstate, Austin, TX.

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Sunday morning bike ride. the air was fresh, full of the perfumes of spring. the redbuds were in full bloom, even though it was February. the sun was soft.

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Sunday bike ride, Austin, TX.

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Outside Java Joes, Austin, TX.

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Lunch, Foodheads, Austin, TX.

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Decrepit building. Congress Ave, Austin, TX.

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A giant fork, one of many 'big' things in Texas.

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Architectural element.

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T&T. 1st St. Austin, TX.

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Un chateau.


Et la dernière...

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Un terrain de jeu abandonner.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

the colour of dreams

In another lifetime, in another town, country and on a different street, this house would be my home. Pink with shutters and a white picket fence, a sweet little flower garden and fairy lights decorating that big old tree, I would inhabit every corner of that house, every creak in the floor would be mine.
But not in this lifetime, not in this town.
I'll find this sweet little pink house elsewhere.

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And this day, when I found my little pink house, was a strange day. I drove home in a blur, on Lakeshore Rd E.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

a disconnect

spring inside
not outside
inner/outer

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

A chunk out of the Big Apple

Six views on Chinatown plus what Ms Holga wants out of NYC.

First: West 84th Street - straight out of Breakfast at Tiffany's or Sex and the City your choice (I chose the former).
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Street side market
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Watertowers
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Looking down on the fire escape
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Upper West Side gives a sunny view
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Old and New; Victorian and 21st Century
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Chinatown times six
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