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Days of Summer part 1

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We are half way through July now and have been enjoying some hot sunny summer weather. We have had very little rain and a level two drought has been declared for the Ottawa area. This is particularly odd as most of our Canadian summers have been punctuated by thunder storms; when we played softball the storms invariably came during Thursday night games, once A16 started track they seemed to appear at the weekly Twilight meets. Not so this year the grasslands around us remind me of Australian summers.

After my attempt to take and post a photo a day in March where I managed 24 out of 31 days and again in June where I only managed 11out of 30, I decided to change my approach. Over the summer I am trying to take photos every day and then pick one each day to post. They are all on my Pinterest board Photo of the Day. Some days photo opportunities and kodak moments present themselves. Other days I have to search for or create them myself.

My Dad asked about my last header image of the large canoe. I took that very close to home back in May. I was up very early to deliver A15 to a bus heading to Washington so I thought I might take some early morning pictures. On the way to the bus at 5:30am there were some great opportunities but we were rushing to make that bus. On the way home an hour later the sun was well and truly up so I had missed the best shots. I did stop at the park and take a few of early morning dragon boat training and liked the reflections of everyone’s coloured sweaters in the water as they paddled. The new header photo was taken on an evening walk home from the same park.

Here are a few pics of our summer so far. I will continue to update the photo of the day collection here.

Pictures of clouds

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Some days are more challenging than others in the photo a day challenge. The “clouds” day dawned dull and grey and continued so until evening. Neither A15 or I had taken any pictures; I had not thought about it in hours when suddenly A appeared beside me telling me clouds had appeared, a sunset in fact and we should drive to where ever we could get the best shots! We drove down the road and ran down to the water’s edge in time to see clouds, sunset and reflections. Here are some of the ones we did not choose for the challenge.

A few taken by A15:

A few taken by me:

A few days of photos

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B11, A15 and I continue to participate in the March Photo a Day challenge. All our photos are on boards on Pinterest but I haven’t managed to post daily here on the blog.  I think it is really cool how we each come up with different interpretations of the theme of the day. A15’s board.  B11’s board. My board

A few of B11’s latest:

window

loud

Some of A15’s:

red

loud

Here are a few of my latest:

red – I teach art on Fridays so it seemed appropriate.

loud – I live in a house of musicians; sometimes both violinists are practising simultaneously, different music, in opposite ends of the house.

someone I talked to – When we can on a Sunday morning we have a coffee together before church; I liked the big daddy cup and the little bubba cup.

A photo a day or two

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I didn’t get yesterday’s photo posted here yesterday but it was on my pinterest board. The theme was “a smile” so I snapped one of a friend while we were at our history class.

Today the theme was “5pm” so I was hoping for a sunset shot. As I drove into the driveway at 4:58 after swimming lessons and errands the sky was grey and I was extremely thirsty so instead of a beautiful sky all I have for you is a tall glass of water, smudges and all!

A photo a day: My neighbourhood

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I headed down our street this morning to take some neighbourhood photos for the challenge hoping to find the scene I wanted on the path down to the river. The path is trampled snow and the bare branches hang a little overhead. The day was very grey and my photos very dreary so on the walk back home I stopped for a minute to snap the more colourful snow bound playground.

 

March: A photo a day

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While browsing on Pinterest I came across a challenge to take a photo a day for a month. The creator of the challenge did the same thing in January and February, allocating a theme for each day of the month. I have signed up, as has A15. I think taking the challenge for one month will be quite a stretch for me but it should be fun also. While I would love to take fabulous photos, at the very least I want them to tell you something about my day or my life. I will be posting them here on Sentient (hopefully daily) and also on Pinterest. A15 will be pinning hers on Pinterest also.

B11 has also signed up and his photos have a clever twist. You can see them here.

The theme for March 1st is UP. As it snowed on and off for most of the day I wanted to capture the snow laden branches I see when I look up into the pine in front of our house.

The reason I buy my candles at Ikea

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Every Christmas I choose a different colour scheme for the Christmas tree and other decorating. This year A15 put in a bid for lime green so we went with it, hanging new balls and buying some sparkly green candles. The candles were pretty but they made a big mess over the candlesticks and the mantle.

We have a new IKEA in the city and I will head there this week to stock up on candles; it was too scary to go before Christmas only days after it opened.