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 – Enliven

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I feel enlivened with all the new growth after winter and even with the rain because I know that with it comes more growth and lush greens and colours. Walking also enlivens me, rain or shine.

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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 Weekend Challenge – Partners

thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/04/15/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-partners/

Partners can me a number of things. I immediately thought of my husband and all the married couples that we know but partners can also be things that go well together, like wine and cheese, eggs and bacon, Batman and Robin, fork and knife, socks, twins, etc..

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Partners for Life
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Swans partner for life as well
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Birthday cake and candles
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Father and Son
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Tea and Biscuits
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Couple
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Best friends

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 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 Weekend Challenge – Winter is Definitely Not Done With Us

….thanks to Sue W and GC for this week’s prompt ‘chill’ https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/03/11/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-chill/

I knew it was too good to be true. We’ve had such a mild winter and very little snow and then all of a sudden we’ve had three major storms in the last three weeks. The second blast of winter melted away almost completely over the next two days because it was warm and sunny but yesterday’s snow will probably hang around for awhile.

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