A Splendid Suitcase

I needed to test out some new equipment that was given to me tonight, (thanks Steve Elphick!!) and I had to take a photo with this awesome suitcase I borrowed from my aunt. Cheers!

A Nighthawk's flight east

To make our 29th year a more memorable one, we decided to go on a trip out East to the Cabot Trail & back... on our little Nighthawk motorcycle we bought in July. I was "allowed" to bring my cameras, which is a big deal, when you're trying to keep your baggage load to under a certain minimal weight & you're planning on camping as well. But yes, my camera had a place on honour in the tank bag, and hence I am able to give you a small taste of our fantastic journey.

- The bike doesn't look so small here, eh?

- Take from one of the lookouts on the Cabot Trail. The views are spectacular!

- Inside a church in Quebec, but it gave me more of a feel of the Maritimes

- In Lunnenberg, the home of the Bluenose

- The Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick

- on Cape Breton Island

- in New Brunswick

- the site of the "Battle of the Windmill" (yes the lighthouse is a converted windmill), a few km east of Prescott, Ontario

Sweetness

I got some sweet photos of my second cousin yesterday!

Blurry vision

In the last while, I have spent many hours gazing at alcohol... :) As many of you know, I do lots of freelance work- assisting and retouching- for Toronto photographer Michael Mahovlich. Of the many kinds of jobs we do, I quite enjoy working on bottle shots for the LCBO. Although I don't take the photos, I get to do quite a lot for their prep & post production. This summer, I finally saw some shots published where I can say for sure- these are our shots! You can see the LCBO's full "Totally Tikki" brochure with recipes from their website here.
We did all of the cut-out bottle shots (not the food/cocktail shots, although they're fantastic as well). Here are some screenshots from LCBO's brochure:

The skies shout glory!

The clouds were so incredible today while I was driving, I could hardly get to my destination... stopping to appreciate times like these is absolutely necessary.

So Precious... our new chicks!

Last weekend, we went on a lovely long drive out to Price Edward County to fetch these little ones! They are Bantam chicks - Old English Game, and Cochins. It has been so fun watching them; they are so quirky and cute.

The black & white ones, like these at the front of the crate, are all Cochins. The rest are the Old English Game chicks.

Any little sound has their attention.

The chicks were only 2 weeks old when we got them. In one week, we can already see the more defined feathers growing out, replacing the fluff, and little combs growing on some of their wee noggins.

Some were marked at birth with the green or red on their foreheads so the breeder could tell them apart, but the markings will grow out as they mature.