Discussion at Lunch

 So, we're sitting in a diner down the road when Jim said...

 ... and then I retorted...

... at which point all rational conversation ceased...

... and the wall of ads blazed behind us!

Happy Birthday, Hannah!

This is one of my three fabulous nieces.  Eighteen years old, and ready to vote, today.  Watch out world!

Photo of a photo.  Sorry Hannah, I know I drove you mad snapping away yesterday, but, for some unknown reason, my blog won't upload any of the good ones.  You look great in the professional shot anyway. :-)

Cousins

 How good it is for family to spend time together!  Nat and Sterling in an unguarded moment.  You would not believe how much subterfuge it took before I finally got a usable shot...

Happy Easter!

 Scenes from the Romance Gallery Garden in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

 This is my favourite photo from the morning.  I want a fountain like this for my own garden one day. :-)

 My friend Audrey, whose idea it was to venture on a "shooting walk". 

Many lovely, old houses like this adorn the roads in old town.  I keep muttering "high maintenance, and hordes of tourists in the summer" to myself.  I lived there once, though not in a house like this one.  Never again!  Pretty, and tempting, but not my cup of tea at all when the total package is considered...

Happy!

Here we see Maddie modeling a sweater yours truly knit for her last summer.  We tried everything to get her to smile, but only her brother could cause her face to light up.  Sweet Ella is having lunch behind Maddie. (And no, I didn't make any part of Ella's apparel.  One day I will learn how to sew...)

Sunshine and Sushi

Cool cut-out art at the local sushi haunt.  Those boys are pretty cool, too. ;-)

Science Dance

 I accompanied Sterling's class to the Science Centre yesterday.  This photo was taken on my cellphone, and the kids were jumping around, trying to make the yellow blocks of light turn over.  Motion sensors in the light equipment turned a simple walk across the floor into a dance.  Anyhoo, the blurring is due to the movement, and, at the last second, someone walked into my shot on the right.  Not a great picture, but a fantastic memory! 

Monday Workstation

Here is the spot where I spend my Monday mornings -- the library at Sterling's school.  Picture the plastic box on the desktop overflowing with returned books, the computers bustling with students, and a line-up for those checking books out which snakes around the room. 

And, free for nothing, a shot of student artwork from a point in the distant past.  I have volunteered at the school for three years now, and cannot remember this piece, and two others like unto it, not being there...

A Day at Football U. and the Museum

It's my blog, and I can do what I want to!  Technically, I believe we're supposed to post ONE picture per day;  however, since I probably only post a picture per week, I'm going to bend the rules.  What is the point of posting the minutiae of each day, when some days are just, obviously, so much more interesting than others?!

Sterling at Varsity Stadium

I am wishing my tendons weren't aching so much, or I would have been running with Sterling.  Tracks are much springier than pavement, believe me! ;-)

After my Run

This is the building across the street from the parking lot where I began and ended my run this evening.  I think it's a church, but am not sure as the light was really fading by the time I figured out how to access the camera on my phone once again. ;-)  Church buildings abound in the old part of town where my son has his drama class in another of the churches.  As the days get longer, I should have a wander along Main Street with my camera...

At the Underground

 Shirley and Emily, my sometime coffee shop -- hang around at youth group buddies. :-)

First-ever deliberate photos taken on my cell.  Couldn't figure out how to minimize the shine on the Celebrating Success sign...

Dinner!

Home-made Vietnamese-inspired soup.  A favourite around these parts.

Sunday Afternoon

 Had a 7.4 K run with my son (rather like trying to run with Puddleglum today), in this gorgeous weather.  Cold, but brilliant.  Now, I'm going to settle down with this book:

Pancakes and Maple Syrup

Harry and Cam at the Maple Sugar Festival, Bruce's Mill.

Rook

Tomorrow I would like to try to find some stone to stand this rook on.  He needs to be guarding a castle tower somehow...

Bishop

"The Lewis Chessmen (or Uig Chessmen, named after the bay where they were found) are a group of 78 chess pieces from the 12th century most of which are carved in walrus ivory, discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.^[1] They may constitute some of the few complete medieval chess sets that have survived, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be made from the pieces. They are owned and exhibited by the British Museum in London, which has 67 and the Royal Museum in Edinburgh."  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen

Knight

This is one of my set of Lewis Chessmen from the British Museum.  He's a domestic sort of knight, riding across a plain of knitted sock.  I was trying to get a coloured background, as the walls, and furniture around here are variations on the tone of the chessmen themselves...

Grade 9 Reading

Relaxing day at home for beginning of the March Break.  Finished it at the library, where Harrison selected the above for his independent reading novel this semester.

Steam Whistle Brewery -- Race Day

After the Achilles race, supporting people with disabilities.  The Steam Whistle's logo is the green symbol on the water tower.  Very fitting for St.Patrick's day.  I'm posting more photos, which Jim took, on Facebook.  This is my one, and only, pic from the day.