Photo Pause: Downtown Birthday Adventure with D.

To kick-start my birthweekend, D. took an extra day off so we could be tourists in our own town for a day. These are a few favourite shots from our lunch & coffee excursion in Ottawa's Byward Market...

view from our table on the patio - it was March 22nd!

same trees, different view

I was fascinated with this lampshade above our table at the coffee shop

baristas at work!

there were quotes on the coffee shop walls, I loved this one

 (this is probably one of my favourite photos too!)

Photo Pause: Spring Colours

Though winter isn't yet done, there's no denying spring is in the air. I see its colours everywhere...

spring colours in my salad

in a new box of chalk

spring colours in paper

in a little one's fairy wings

and even in the studio (new work in progress, 30"x24" on canvas)

I'm ready.

Photo Pause: Scenes from a Brown-Bag Lunch Buffet

Last Monday I met two of my favourite peeps for a brown-bag lunch buffet at the Bank of Canada atrium. There was a blustery snow squall outside, but it was oh so lovely where we were...

it was snowy outside...

... but nice & warm inside

soothing greenery on a winter's day

the spread - and there was more that's not in the shot!

pineapple-cucumber gazpacho by Sis - YUM!

Camera Play: Fun with Blur

It's been full and heavy here lately, I thought I'd lighten it up a little.

Those of you who've seen some of my photos know that I tend to like the blurry shots just as much as the crisp ones. They started off unintentionally, serendipitous duds. Now they've grown on me.

They have a soft and dreamy quality that draws me in, as if they had stories to tell...

December Views Week 3 & a Bit - Part I

Has it only been a week and a half since my last December Views post? There are so many images to share! I've been a little clicker happy so it'll be a two-part post. Voici, Part I:

a colourful haphazard pianoscape in the dining room

off to New Brunswick for Christmas, it was a windshield-washer kind of a day

Day 2 on the road, much better driving weather!

Christmas morning cast-offs

I'm not a very religious person, but I was fascinated with this colourful

backlit Jesus at my aunt's place.

my cousin's top hat topper to her 9' Christmas tree - the hat was her father's, love it!

Shelby soaking in the sun, she's the cutest Great Dane I've every seen

Stay tuned for Part 2...