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Category Archives: Photography
Northern hotheads!
I’m going to spare you the photo of what Cheryl and I looked like after two days of hiking at just over 30 celsius , but it wasn’t pretty! The fact that the humidity reading was 100% and so things … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Life, Photography, Puzzles and Contradictions, Thoughts, Walking
Tagged Blue Mountain, Bruce Trail, Ontario flowers
48 Comments
Wales – From the mouths of babes
What great travelling companions two 11 year old girls can make…I’d originally thought that my role would entail more ‘grandmothering’ but here we were on a girls road trip, complete with fits of laughter that had tears running down our … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Photography, Thoughts, Travel
Tagged granddaughters, Manorbier Castle, Tenby, Wales, Wales with children, Welsh beaches
36 Comments
Wales through young eyes
Planning a trip with my two eleven year old granddaughters was an entirely new experience. I asked them to research their ‘must see’ spots in Wales and they cycled over with a list which found a home on the fridge. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Horses, Life, Photography, Thoughts, Travel
Tagged Cardiff, family travel, granddaughters, Mining history, pony trekking, Wales
48 Comments
Summer glories
It’s a time of year when colourful beauties flaunt themselves shamelessly – some are wild and some a little more refined but they’re all determined to reproduce. …a time of year when it’s often hard to tell the weeds from … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Life, Photography, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged Ontario wildflowers, Summer wildflowers
44 Comments
Humbled again
Times when you are astounded by the beauty around you are such a joy at any age, but to discover what is just on your doorstep after a lifetime of travel is doubly so! Hiking the Bruce trail provides so … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Photography, Thoughts, Walking
Tagged Cape Croker, Hiking the Bruce trail, Ontario wilderness
51 Comments
“Do we have to die first?”
Well the question did set me back on my heels a bit…Greed and corruption, the pursuit of wealth and power, self interest everywhere…there’s no doubt it can get you down sometimes. If you try however you can find the counter … Continue reading
It’s official!
With mud splashed on his long, muscular legs, stripped of the leather that until moments ago had clothed his golden body, his naturally streaked hair flying in the wind, … he ran with wild abandon, knowing the joy that awaited … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Hiking, Horses, Life, Photography, Thoughts, Walking
Tagged Hiking the Bruce trail, Springtime in Ontario
40 Comments