I said I’d upload some pictures from my maritimes trip with Nathan to this blog, however I failed and left my card reader at home, as well as the cord (because I never use the cord!) I can show you some from my other camera, but the really good ones will have to wait. This computer doesn’t have a slot for CF cards only SD cards.

So I will try to remember to take a few pictures with Canon Jr. but until then, I’ll leave you with this, our photo at the halfway point between the equator and the North Pole lol.

We were in Cavendish today, and kind of all over PEI. Just going to head out for dinner now, and to pick up some wine, since our hotel room was given to a bunch of soccer kids, and we got moved to a gorgeous jacuzzi suite instead.. I suppose that’s alright 🙂

hey so yes, i broke my promise again, but i did also say that i’d post from time to time.. didn’t i?  i don’t know..

anyway, i have a treat for you today!  i was feeling half-dead on the couch fighting off germs that sat in my home waiting for me to come home from san francisco. they were armed and ready to invade.  and that they did.. (san francisco was awesome by the way. i totally understand a song that left it’s heart in San Francisco now… i can’t wait to go back there and find mine)

my husband nathan says to me, oh! the waxwings are back!  well in our backyard is a crab apple tree. the apples don’t grow to a good crab apple size thru the summer for some reason, so we just call them berries.  so the waxwings like to come in the spring and knock them all out of the tree. i honestly don’t believe for a second they actually eat them. the proof in that is the pile of “berries” left on our lawn when the snow melts. they just like to make a mess and move on, and they keep coming back until the job is done!

i peeled myself off the couch and got my camera all set up with my favorite pretty zoom lens that i love so much and put on my warmest winter jacket, even though, while stepping off the plane upon arriving back in saskatoon from california, i swore i would not wear a winter coat again until fall… but hey, i was sick, and this was important.  i quietly stepped out the back door, propped myself comfortably up against the brick wall of my house, and assumed the position.  i took about 45 pictures in a matter of 20 seconds, but you can’t dilly dally when dealing with these birds who get spooked so easily!

there was this one bird though, he stuck around and was the last guy to leave.. i guess he had a job to do, and didn’t want to leave it unfinished. i caught him red..headed? picking one last “berry” off the branch before taking off for the day.

…..maybe he just liked having his picture taken.. maybe he is a she.. i don’t know how to tell the difference.. but all that doesn’t matter to me really..  anyway, enjoy 🙂  (you can click on the picture to see a bigger version of it!)  The “in-flight” one I wasn’t really ready for, but had to say farewell in this post somehow!

PS.. don’t you just love their little mohawks?!  ❤

You may or may not know, I got a shiny new lens, so I’ve been playing a lot with it, but in the bitter cold that Saskatchewan residents put up with, it’s not always easy to go out and take pretty pictures.. So I did what I could inside.. These are my totally fun new shoes I got the other day, shot with my brand new “nifty fifty”  🙂  (nickname for the 50mm lens for you non-camera folk!)

So, I really wanted to do this project this year, but I just don’t have the time. I’m a perfectionist, so I can’t just snap a picture and post it anymore!! I have to plan things out and go big, and I just can’t find the time already to keep up! So while I won’t be doing a 365 this year, I do promise to post random photo’s here and there, hopefully at least once a week. So many of you have told me you so look forward to what I come up with next! So I don’t want to completely let you down!

Anyway, I got a new lens, and this is one of my first photos with it.. many many more to come, and of course it’s Spy.. he just posed so nicely for me!