Photography

This Throwback Thursday, we have returned to the Royalton Cancun with our entire family. You may have noticed that I am not as present on social media sites, and now, you know the reason!  I am publishing this post from … Read More

Christmas is a magical time…   To all my friends wherever you are around the world, and my family in Canada and elsewhere, I wish you the warmth and joy of being surrounded by loved ones. This is truly the … Read More

The Attagirls – Unsung heroes of WWII.   They and others answered the call to serve a nation at war When war began in 1939, many Canadian men answered the call to duty. Women also wanted to contribute to the … Read More

Summer is the best season… “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a … Read More

“Art is the center of the real world.” ~Isaiah Zagar, award-winning Philadelphia born mosaic artist. For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I am looking back to 2015 when I visited Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens.  A non-profit organization, this extraordinary folk art gallery … Read More

Revisiting Chanticleer for Throwback Thursday.   This hot, dry summer, you might be looking for a shady spot in your little piece of heaven called a garden. Perhaps you have a hammock under an old tree and this is your … Read More

Originally published in June 2015, this post was one of my first as I started my new adventure blogging about my creative journey.  For this TBT (Throwback Thursday) I added photos of  favourite flowers that are still blooming as we … Read More

This post was previously published in August 2015 when I first started blogging. With a bitterly cold Arctic wind and a temperature of -20C, spring flowers are still the stuff of memory. Today, I am dreaming of the time I spent … Read More

This was one of my first posts as a blogger/artist. In this post, I have a mix of travel photos as well as sketches. Published in June 2015, it is an account of a week long trip to northern parts … Read More

“Cuba is like going to a whole other planet.” —Henry Louis Gates, American historian, film maker, Harvard University professor. Part 2 in a three part series. With people heading south to escape our Canadian winter, I am reminded of a … Read More

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. ~H. … Read More