she wasn’t kidding when she said she had nothing to wear by jamelah
I love the whimsy in this photo by Jamelah. The picture was first blogged by fellow Flickreeno Liz over at her new site (check it out) Abstract the Day, and I liked it so much I’m showing it off here.
I like the shoes, [...]

A beluga sprays on command during a show at the Vancouver Aquarium, Saturday, January 23.
That’s how I felt this morning!
Yesterday I said “Roll on Tuesday!” but somehow that message must’ve gotten mixed up in the cosmos because this morning I woke up to a bunch of blinking numbers after eight o’clock instead of an alarm! [...]

December 28, 2006
Havana, Cuba
I love this photo, but I had to take it in a hurry if I wanted it to be natural. It illustrates the choice you have to make sometimes between timing and the desire to make a technically better photograph. If I had stopped to change the settings or composition they would’ve [...]

No, I didn’t get beaned in the head with an icicle walking home (now THAT would be an Emergency Room story I’d rather not have to tell…) — I was wearing my wool coat with the hood up, as per usual.
Monday reared its mischievous head by causing me to lose a button to my trousers [...]

In this case, that would be a cheap lens.

Pentax K-1000
December 30, 2006
Gran Teatro, Havana
I wanted to buy a macro and a wide-angle lens for the Pentax for the Cuba trip, but lenses are ghastly expensive and I didn’t want to spend much money, I just wanted to do some experimentation. So I bought a Phoenix [...]

Gigi snuggling this afternoon with her pet rat on her favourite piece of furniture. The couch and the recliner really belong to Gigi — the humans spend more time at their desks in front of their computers than on the furniture. Her snoozefests remind me of the phrase “creature comforts”.
I want to go back to [...]

On my way home from work, I passed by Nathan Phillips Square and caught a bit of The Philosopher Kings doing sound checks before their opening of Toronto’s two-week winter festival called WinterCity.
WinterCity 2007
I recognised the band’s signature sound straightaway as I’ve seen them perform live at The Vogue theatre in Vancouver. If you’ve never [...]

Pentax K-1000
Museo de Chocolate
Havana, Cuba
Technorati tags: Havana, Cuba, chocolate, Museo de Chocolate

When I was in Cuba, I wrote every day in these three little books. The black ones are Moleskines I bought in Pennsylvania a few days before I flew to Cuba. (They came in a pack of three for $7.) I used the one on the right to scribble random notes and keep a record [...]

December 19, 2006
Pentax K-1000
Holly’s older boy, engrossed in a book and wearing his favourite hat. (View larger.) I love seeing kids browse books even before they can read. It doesn’t seem to bother them that they can’t make sense of the characters on the page; it doesn’t dampen their enthusiasm for exploration. Everything is new, [...]