Excessive – Weekend Challenge

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and Gerry C for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/11/22/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-excessive/

Some people can never have enough candy or sweets but when you see it displayed row upon row and in giant pastry cases you have to wonder if are obsession with sugar isn’t somewhat excessive. On the flip side, though, I find it overly frugal when individuals can make a chocolate bar last an entire week or take their Hallowe’en stash and spread it out over months.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Ahead

Posted on October 21, 2024 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2024/10/19/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-ahead/

During the long Thanksgiving Weekend we got ahead of the traffic by going home on Sunday instead of Monday. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the drive through the countryside by avoiding the major highways.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Peaks in London

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2024/06/08/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-peak/

They may not be mountain peaks but these spires, monuments and cranes look like peaks from a distance and certainly ‘peak’ your attention.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Flow

Posted on April 20, 2024 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2024/04/20/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-flow/

31e8f816-86fe-42b5-b685-8d60837dc11e — *Sherbrooke, Quebec*

P1040200 — *Niagara Falls on the Canadian side*

P1040162 — *Niagara Falls on the American side*

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Expect

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Mama Cormier

…when one ‘expects’ to be fed

On my walk today, the ducks and geese were foraging for food along the shoreline. Normally when I get closer the ducks, in particular, waddle to the water and swim away. Today, however, it was bitterly cold and as I moved in closer so did the ducks. Clearly they were ‘expecting’ me to feed them. I know that bread is bad for ducks so I never throw them crusts of day old bread.

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Thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Promptshttps://weeklyprompts.com/2024/02/24/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-expect/

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Bridges

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2024/01/20/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-bridge/

Ever since I started teaching the unit on Bridges from the grade 5 curriculum I’ve been somewhat obsessed with them. I love bridges but I wish I had more photos. The following bridges are from Venice, Florence, Loire Valley in France, London over the Thames, from Ontario, P.E.I., New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Found

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/10/21/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-found/

Sue wrote a very interesting article on her blog that she found in the Guardian. It’s well worth a read. My contribution is literally things that I found on my recent trip to the East Coast.

DD267033-1-F5-C-4837-BE23-D4-E467-BFD66-E — *Old fashion snow shoes in Sherbrooke, Que.*

C429-C93-C-9-E65-4-E42-8065-9863204-EF453 — *Stephen King’s house in Bangor, Me*

8-F6-EF947-25-DB-4-AE3-ACE3-E2530417-EEB5 — *Shells on the beach in Bouctouche, NB*

E74-EB509-3-AC5-4-D4-F-9084-B1-ACFB6-B1-C35 — *Lobster Traps in Alma, NB*

534-AA5-B0-FE6-F-465-E-9-CE4-699204-D472-F4 — *Gourds at the Green Pig in NB*

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A1-EFBFFF-A798-4-E18-B07-A-28274-E210662 — *Sou western hat at Peggy’s Cove*

68083-B74-7132-4-B90-9-C42-5-A9873682-E90 — *A Pyramid of lobster traps decorated for Hallowe’en in Lunenburg, NS*

D1-BC9527-7-B67-45-DF-9314-C635591-C40-EB — *Beer taps with educational themes in Windsor, NS*

45868-CBC-9870-4-A10-9-BEC-0539-B1-E224-F9 — *Skeletons hiding in wineries in Wolfville, NS*

766-EDB9-F-E69-B-40-D1-9209-2-A6-EBEC287-C4 — *Turquoise cannon and cannonballs in Annapolis Royal, NS*

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Fresh

Posted on June 10, 2023 by Mama Cormier

… thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/06/10/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-fresh/

There’s nothing like bread fresh out of the oven. Every week, on Wednesdays, I head over to Montgomery’s Inn where I help bake the bread for the Farmers’ Market. The bread is prepped the day before, except the sourdough, and hand kneaded and shaped before it goes into the wood fired oven.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Birds n Bees

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Mama Cormier

….thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts

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.