After the rain
It was a beautiful morning this morning. Not at all cold and the remains of the freezing rain had encrusted everything. Only in Newfoundland do we get freezing rain, freezing drizzle and freezing fog;...
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Rainbow girl The sun was streaming in this morning and filtering through a crystal I have hung in the studio window. This gorgeous light is supposed to switch to hail, ice pellets (industrial hail),...
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A trip to Bowring Park on a beautiful sunny day. It’s Easter break for the kids and I have more of them around than is usual, despite a clay camp for Katherine in the mornings. Coincidentally, the...
View ArticleA surfeit of sunshine
Well, maybe not a surfeit, but certainly a whole lot more than we’re used to as of late. Spring Sunset in Newfoundland It’s day three of more or less continuous sun (except at night, of course. We’re...
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St. John's, taken from the Fort Waldegrave battery at the foot of Signal Hill. After several days of blue sky and warm air, we awoke this morning to cold mist and clouds, presenting me with the perfect...
View ArticleMelting
Drips falling off the roof, where the afternoon sun melted the morning snow. So much for the 10cm of late snowfall we received this morning. It’s almost all gone now, thanks to the glorious strength of...
View ArticleI would like to order…..
… one of these days: Shagging* around with the new lens a few days ago. It has been foggy, cold and raining ever since. … but not until Sunday. *shagging around = Newfoundland term meaning “messing...
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Katherine dodges waves at Middle Cove Beach The greyness of the past several days was really starting to get to me. While I like a good fog as much as the next person, too much of a mediocre one can...
View Article‘Tis a fine day
Rowan and her stick. We have several sticks that are sections of grey, heavy-duty PVC electrical conduit. The black stripes are electrical tape, for contrast, but aren’t really necessary. These have...
View ArticleChance Cove Provincial Park
Dawn. One of my favourite parts of camping is waking up before the sun rises and watching it creep up over the horizon. It’s much easier to do this when you go to bed at a reasonable hour and when you...
View ArticleAll’s Well…
… that ends well. A fitting way to describe yesterday as the body of it held the elements of both comedy and tragedy* and the ending was beautiful, yet marred slightly by bugs. Although Helena had a...
View ArticleWhen the whales come….
Here in Newfoundland, it isn’t Easter that promises Spring and its joyously heralded successor, Summer. No, in Newfoundland, when April and May arrive, we recognise with a certain pragmatism, that this...
View ArticleMists of the Avalon
Capelin Weather The fog has been doing fun things for the past several days. It is there one minute and gone an hour later, flitting in and out like a politician’s opinion and never staying in the same...
View ArticleThe slow spiral
Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay September is gone and October is suddenly here. The days have gotten manifestly shorter and slightly cooler and I’ve been eyeing my winter running gear with a little...
View ArticleA glimpse
Extinguished This has been a rather busy fall. So busy, in fact, that autumn has almost passed by without my noticing it. Since it’s my favourite season, this was a bit of an eye-opener for me. We took...
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