Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Birds n Bees

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Some of my favourite subjects for photography are bees on flowers and birds. I find photographing birds more difficult because I can’t get close enough with my iPhone and I need to use my ‘big’ camera with the telephoto lens. I don’t always have the camera with me because it is awkward and heavy but when I do it takes superior shots of birds.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – The Door

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I’ve seen and passed by this door for years and a few weeks ago I finally went through and saw some amazing and inspiring art.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Busy

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The last two weeks have been very busy for me, mostly with my art show. Preparing the art itself over the last two months has been a busy time but hanging the show, preparing for the opening, driving to the gallery six times to meet with friends, and then taking the show down and packing it up has taken up hours of time. Now I have to deliver the pieces that were sold. I’m exhausted but in a good way.

Of course life goes on in between trips to the gallery. I started baking again at the Inn, I played Bridge with a group of friends, attended a Zoom meeting for the Exhibition Committee at WAAC, paid bills and for three days in a row I helped prepare the lawn bowling rink to get ready for the opening of our season. Things that didn’t get done were housework, laundry and gardening. This morning I started to clean up the back garden and filled up one bag of yard waste. It’s a start.

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Curating the show from home before hanging with Andrea
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Visiting Max Cameron’s show at Bau-Xi Gallery the first week my show was up
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Getting the lawn bowling greens ready for playing
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Baking at the Inn
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Made two new pieces after the show was hung
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Weaving one more rock before the end of the show

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Frolic

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Nothing says frolic more that young children and dogs playing.

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Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Gardens

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Where do I start with the prompt ‘garden’? It seems that at least 50% of my posts are around flowers. I’ve decided to go back and find some of the more interesting gardens that I’ve visited over the years.

The Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, ON

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Queen Mary’s Rose Garden in London, England

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Sunflowers in Tiny County, ON

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Gardens at the Chateau Royale in Amboise, France

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Curve Garden in London, England

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Phoenix Gardens in London, England

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Centennial Park Conservatory

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – GAP

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Some gaps are manmade, like the gap created by beams on the underside of the observation deck overlooking Fundy Bay in New Brunswick but for me the ones made by nature are the most interesting. The following photos are from Hopewell Rocks, NB and the last one was taken on Prince Edward Island. That one is pretty far off in the distance but I included it because after a second wind storm, shortly after I left, took it down.

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North Shore, PEI – November 1, 2022

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Tricolour

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Three heirloom tomatoes
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Red, yellow and blue stained glass stepping stone
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Yellow, orange and brown basket flower
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Red, Pink and White Bouquet
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Pink, Gold and Green
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Orange, green and white quilt
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Pink, Green and Yellow Croton

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Two

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I’m always so focused on finding trios for my Thursday Trios Challenge that I had to really search my archives to find ‘twos’.

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From our recent trip to College Royal – when we got to the barns it was feeding time
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Cabybaras at High Park Zoo
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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Content

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When I thought of the word ‘content’ my mind went immediately to the meaning, ‘a state of pleasure or being satisfied’. Of course it also means ‘subject matter’. Which do you think I chose to represent?

Today we attended College Royal at the University of Guelph. In the Food Science building the students made milkshakes. This has always been a popular event but we have not seen it since 2019 because of COVID-19. Clearly people were happy to see it come back. The line-up was huge. We heard that the students were prepared to sell 4000 shakes.

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Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Neighbours

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Neighbours mean the world to us. Not only do we help each other out in times of need or to carry out a goal, we also have become friends and celebrate special times in our lives together.

Trish and I picked up garbage in the neighbourhood for a month when COVID first hit. It was her idea but I was right there with her for 30 days.

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…she even got one her daughters and her friend to pitch in
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For years we shovelled snow for our neighbours and now they help us out when we’re not able
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This is our neighbourhood lawn bowling club and many of the members are my neighbours. I’ve met a lot of great people
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Friends since high school and neighbours at the cottage…always there to support me
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Neighbours and friends helping me celebrate my ‘big’ birthday
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Neighbours pitching in to help clear the leaves on the corner lot