On Guard for Thee

One of the Sea Cadets standing at frozen attention all thru the entire ceremony.

The BIG Gun

They fire off 2 shots from this beauty during the ceremony.

Wow loud too!

Up....real close and personal

with the business section of a BIG gun on Rememberance Day in Almonte.

Only regret I have is not getting the words in focus first, then composing the shot but at least I got the shot!

up the barrel of a gun? lol

Next time

I see something about self portraits in unique ways, this one will come to mind for me.

Thanks Mandy!

and most especially, ty for not knocking me into the ... um...'mud' in the barnyard.

lol

I love you too, and I was out of carrots at that point..

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet

eating her curds and whey

when along came a spider

who sat down beside her

and frightened Miss Muffet away!

Thanks Andy, yes, I know...it's a rock.

Too bad you didn't see the gorgeous beauty on the side, like I did!

One quiet wet night

The rain, on my window, and in the side view mirror of my truck.

Tried to get the mirror in focus.

not sure about this shot, I like, but...

Leroy, one of the barn 'People'

yep, he's a llama...lol

careful, they can spit too!

End of Day...

Sun fled fast the first night we were there...but even thou it tipped past the tree's and refused to shine its golden light on the scene, it did take a moment as it edged the horizon to lace the sky in lovely tips of colour....deepened in reflections too.
Man, lucky to live there all the time!

Down by the Bay....

not sure if watermelons grow here or not, but it's the bay our friends live on at Mississippi Lake about 15 min's from our house.

Jade in Sunset

After being a busy girl all day exploring, and some lake dabbling, our little Jack Russell pauses (ya, they do stop now and then) to look out over the water. Hey Jade, whatcha looking at?

MMMMMMM Milkweeeeeeddddd!

My contribution to the 'fluff' gallery this year.

Walked down the road tonight to get a shot of the fluffies on the ground, kinda randomly laying there (and it's gonna rain tomorrow)...

and of course had to try a few 'up close and personal' ones too

Summer Fun w Friends....

Isn't discovery grand??

How to paddle a canoe...on the fly

How to catch fish....on the fly

How to paddle ever so silently that you CAN catch a fish....

hehehehe

and they did!

Copper

This one is from some shots last year. I posted the deeply coloured one, where it shot purple and blue... I don't think I posted the original, here it is.

The View from Here

From at the cottage, looking out at the water....

At the Lake

Same Lake, same day. See below.

Serenity..thy name is....

Thanksgiving at the cottage. Just outside Notre Dame de la Solette outside of Buckingham, Quebec. About 1.5 hr drive from home, thru downtown Ottawa and out the other side for a bit....

The shore is flat and straight. This is a series of shots stitched together to make a panorama.

Now, I see it's flaws, but OMG its so pretty!

Can I even hope to do it justice here? Shrunk it down to manageable size of 800 pixels wide...but ouch, 10% of what it was....just over 9000 when stitched.

Let me know if you wanna see it bigger...

Busy Bee

and you thought you had a tough job???!!

Riot??

Who'd have thought construction could be this much fun...!?!

Red Barn

Tucked away over the hill just a bit. The barley field in front. Very close to my home.

Barley

Still fresh green, earlier this season.