A year ago today I lost Roland to brain cancer. One year... 52 weeks, 365 days. Yet, sometimes it feels like only yesterday. A lot has happened in this year... mostly I have learned to hold my family and friends close. The first few months of loss were traumatic. The hardest moments were the first [...]
It seems hardly possible that our big burly boy is two years old today. Truth be told, his birthday is more of a guesstimate but we are going to go with it. Odin came to live with us at 5 months of age. He was found as a stray, living on his own, in a [...]
How can it be that the leaves are already falling from the trees. Every year it is the same, with the summer passing in a flurry of warmth and activity. Although this year was comparable... in many ways it was completely different. For you see, this was my first summer without Roland. For myself, much [...]
The theme for week 22 of the Project 52 Pet Photographer’s blog circle is “Photographers Choice”. Our favourite walking path is right behind our house in this most glorious open field. The field is bordered by the Cordite Trail which takes us on a lovely walk surrounded by bulrushes on one side and prairie grass [...]
The theme for week 21 of the Project 52 Pet Photographer’s blog circle is “black and white”. This week I am digging into the archives for photos of one of my favourite subjects for black and white photography, my beautiful Sadie-Girl. Sadie entered my life as a 5-year-old English Springer Spaniel who had recently lost [...]
The theme for week 20 of the Project 52 Pet Photographer’s blog circle is “Golden Hour”. The golden hour in photography refers to that short period of daylight just after sunrise and just before sunset... shadows are long and soft, colours are warm and more evenly dispersed, often resulting in a golden glow. As it [...]
