Friday!!!

Friday!!! And this is me .. on my way to work at MacDonalds. The day is so beautiful once again, that I just had to pull the camera out ...



(I'm going to have to come up with some new ways of taking photographs of me ... ooh .. maybe the time has come to indulge in a tripod ...)
Calvin was out too ... loving the sun and the grass :).



This is my dandelion action shot.


Alas, work beckons, and Calvin, at least, must return indoors. Here he poses outside the door. I imagine he is soaking all the sun and sights up so that he will dream happy doggy dreams all day long. :).

Calvin sais "hi!" to D.O.P. :)

D.O.P. ... Calvin has something to say to you ... (he reminded me as I was getting ready to leave for work today). He told me (with his eyes) to go get my camera,



and then he lay down rather mournfully and said: that he misses you, and would I please put that up on our blog.
Then he sat up again and asked for a treat.

I, of course, gave it to him :) ... I mean, look at those eyes ... Here I am, in my morning turban, admitting that I cannot say no to my doggy's 'i want a treat please' eyes.

then I made myself a fruit smoothie. It's raining again today, but that's good ... I hope all the little plants and trees bloom like crazy! Have an amazing day D.O.P.! We love you! To everyone else - you too .. have a great day!

May long weekend!

TRIP TO HAMILTON
I made a foray into the great warm south of Ontario, this weekend. It's funny, because I am from there, and not much about spring in southern Ontario should surprise me, but there I was, unable to keep from exclaiming over and over again about the incredibly lush, vibrant, green, cultivated aliveness of it all. It was SO beautiful. So what was going on ... had I forgotten it? or is this just an especially green spring for Hamilton?

I also spent some time in great conversation with a friend of mine, Andrea. We like to get together to discuss life, love, and the mysteries of the universe :). We had breakfast at our favorite breakfast place - The Pancake House - on Main Street in Hamilton (which actually gets pretty close to Dundas...). At about 10:00, Andrea glanced at the clock, and did an impressive double take. "Tricia! We've got to go!!!". It was Sunday, and we always go to church at the Meeting House after breakfast. Now, I had been checking the clock responsibly myself, and at her reaction, I chuckled. "Don't worry silly, doesn't church start at 10:30?". It was then, that I began to suspect that perhaps Hamilton was not actually having a greener spring than usual ... because the Meeting House service does not start at 10:30 ... my Sudbury church service starts at 10:30. I had forgotten. It was disconcerting ... I didn't like that 'home' was becoming a stranger that I was needing to relearn! I later went to Fortinos to pick up some food, and couldn't, for the life of me, remember the name of that very visible, trademark Hamilton/Dundas food superstore. And now I know: I've been gone for too long. I can't believe this is happening. Hamilton had been home for so long.

And here is the littlest Dundas sweetheart, Maya. I wish I had a better photograph of her ... but I wanted to stick with pictures from this trip. Nina will be sending me some of the pictures she took of the two of us blowing bubbles together in the back yard... and when she does, I will put one up here. I stayed with Nina and Bruxy this weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with them at my home away from home ... or ... my real home as they would insist on putting it. Here we are in the tent in the back yard. Maya is going to grow up loving the outdoors and the hiking/camping environment - just like her mama.
Nina is heroic - parenting, and preparing for the defense of her thesis. It is an amazing thesis, and I cannot wait to get a copy of it for myself.
Calvin stayed with James, Arienne, and Nolan this weekend ... and loved it :).

Here you can see him moping in the back seat - it was time to leave. And just one more picture ... (I really was blown away at the beauty of the outdoors in Hamilton).
This is the street James and the kids live on. In the end,


itwas a perfectly lovely weekend.

Debut entry!!!

This is me :). I am taking a picture of me, outside my place on a beautiful sunshiny day. Actually, this was yesterday. Today it's raining outside, but my memories of the sunshine are strong ...
I've started this blog ... as something a little different from my portfolio/art blogspot. This will be a collection of photographs, written things, and anything else I really want to share about my life. It will help people to keep up with what I'm up to - in a visual way.



And this is my dog Calvin. He doesn't understand why I point that little box thingy at him periodically ... but he puts up with it. His adventures and my adventures are very much intertwined, so you'll likely see lot's of him in the future too.



Over on the left again ... is the rain. I'm about to walk through that, to work. It's alright, I like the rain. Calvin and I love to go for walks in thunderstorms - one of the amazing things about being human (and canine) is that we are basically waterproof. We dry off rather than disintegrate. Brilliant design!

Anyways ... there's always coffee to warm a person up. Here's mine ... brewing ...


Time to leave the
warmth of my
kitchen! See you
all later :).