I've not posted since July? I have no excuse.

 I'm not one of those "look-back-at-everything-I-did" kind of person. If I did, it would be a pretty quick glance. And I'm definitely not one of those "new-year's-resolution" kind of person either.
I'm guess I'm sort of just floating through life, come-what-may.

Hmmm, and where has that gotten me?

Maybe I should rethink this lackadaisical attitude and start taking stock in things and lay out some kind of plan. Some kind of 'to do list' to attempt to stick to.
Ironically, I live by 'to-do-lists' from week to week: get groceries | dump garbage | do laundry | clean litter boxes | scrub the bathroom. And I even manage to get most of them checked off.

What if I put bigger to-dos down on paper? Like, uh...write that damn novel I keep dreaming of writing! Or stop fucking around and lose that damn weight that's slowly killing me! Rekindle the passion for photography I seemed to have lost. Get my hand-sewn journals onto an Etsy store. These and any of the dozen or so other creative 'projects' I have let sit for far too long.

If I were doing things on a project 'to do' list, I could actually check one off. I'm posting these here as references - I suppose as reminders to keep creating. As inspiration to keep thinking up things I can 'create'.

So....Looking forward from here - 2015 might just come to be remembered as my 'to-do-year' that actually 'got-done'.

The final 'creative project' completed in 2014 Custom Made Christmas Cards [Hand drawn|Inked|Coloured] (in no particular order) :

Stuff and things

Where the hell is time racing off to?!? I had to chop through the cobwebs to get into this blog! What the hell!?!

It's been six months since I've bothered to sort through my photography folders and see if there was anything I wanted to upload. This month's Super Moon had me digging out my neglected camera and unused lenses and pointing at it and random things again.

It made me aware of how the 'trained eye' can get out of shape and miss things it would normally notice immediately. I need to take full advantage of the weather and get the heck out there and re-train my eye!

But for now, I want to park this rag-tag selection of shots here now and hopefully have more to upload again soon an on a regular basis there after....

New Westminster is home to The British Store and Sherlock's Cafe down on Columbia Street. They serve 'high tea' that I would highly recommend.

Sherlock's Cafe's popular High Tea.

Preening.

The Fraser River, also known as the is the Sto:lo is the longest river in British Columbia. It has been designated a Canadian Heritage River for its natural and human heritage. 

Commercial fishing.

One of the many tenacious tugs that patrol the waterways.
This one is pulling a sizable log boom.

Canada's Coast Guard even makes its way onto the Fraser.

Coast Guard hovercraft.

 

End of day - fishing boats heading home.

An all too frequent presence on New West's skyline of late.

Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tour boat heading back to dock.

Granny Hutch pulling the log boom.

Log boom.

Log boom eddy.

July 23rd was the super moon. One thing I learned, well maybe two....one; I need a better Telephoto lens and two; I definitely need one of those fancy-dancy Manfrotto tripods!

Rising Super Moon over Surrey.

My best friends have recently added a new member to their household. They took in a little two year old rescue. She is the shiniest, softest cat I have ever met. She's a good judge of character - she likes me - and has endless curiosity as she should.

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Beautiful shiny rescue.

This is Mishka.
I took pictures of him at Christmas when he was a puppy.
Today, he is a bigger puppy.

And Pixel hanging out watching me at my computer.

He sits like this all the time.

And lastly, this is Ripley.
My source of getting out and shooting on a regular basis.

I hope everyone is having a fun-filled safe summer.

Sunset, Rain Drops and Fog

I think the only thing missing in this post is snow. But, the way snow affects drivers on the Pacific coast, the less the better.

winter sunset

rain drops on a wind screen

 New Westminster's Queen's Park in the morning fog.

creepy when empty and foggy

the rose garden gazibo

seeing seeing double double

follow the path see where it leads

I have no idea what this is

looming

do trees get arthritis?

stone wall

mossy ledge

Maybe it'll snow before the next post? God help us all if it does.