I survived the ice storm of the decade! While I was outside with taking the dog for a pee, contemplating my good fortune, I decided to snap a few shots of everything caked in ice. It had a neat look... glowing around the edges. Very fresnel (look it up!).
Camping
I don't usually write many paragraphs, but when I do, its about camping.
I haven't been camping in a man's age. I really don't think I had much desire to go though. We used to go all the time when we were kids, and it was usually with Andrew, and his brother Tom, and their parents. I think the last time I was camping was just with Andrew and Tom, and we went to Sauble Beach and it poured rain the entire time. So much so that we had to dig trenches around the tents to keep them from being flooded, and we spent pretty much the entire time under a tarp suspended over the table, playing magnetic chess beside a citronella candle. So, with that being the last memory I had, I guess I wasn't keen on going back for me. But after Andrew told me he was planning a bike trip up to Tobermory, I thought Id tag along. In the end, I wasn't able to go on my bike due to an arm injury, but that gave me a chance to finally get my car back on the road.
It was a 4 day trip (for me, Andrew kept going after I headed home) to Tobermory Prov. Park. We were pretty much the only people in the general area of where we were in the park. There was 1 other tent a few spots down but I don't think I saw them once. At night it was black, and cold. If you walked down to the lake, out of the cover of the trees, the stars were super bright and you could actually make out what was around you, but stepping back into the trees and it was liking walking back into a wall of dark.
Despite the cold, and the fact that I had to sleep on the floor of my car, it was a good time and let me get away from the city for a while and leave some worries behind.
Highway Fire
We were sitting on the couch last night, trying to make our way through Zero Dark Thirty (seems there was distraction after distraction) and I kept thinking I was smelling coffee. Nice dark roast, full fragrance coffee. I said "I WANT some coffee!". Instead of getting some though, for some reason I turned around to look out the window. Through the trees I saw some odd orange/brown colors, which turned out to be the big column of smoke rising from a fire on the other side of the soundwall on the highway! So, like any good photographer I grabbed my camera and ran outside to get a few pics (while like any good wife, Christine told me to stay inside and look at the floor).
For once, living, basically, on the highway on-ramp had its advantages and I was able to get right onto the side of the highway and shoot straight across traffic. A few minutes later Christine came and pulled my back in the house by my ear.
Communion
A few pictures from a quick shoot before heading off to a First Communion ceremony. I would post one of my First Communion photos as well from when I was a tot, but I dont have them here to scan. I haven't aged a day!