by thadmin | Mar 13, 2014 | Beauty, Navel, Rant, Travel
So I have returned to New Zealand. To be honest, I never thought I would ever return. Certainly not through lack of desire, but rather lack of means was my assumption. But I must never forget the generosity of family, and so it is through the good graces of my...
by thadmin | Dec 6, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, love
I just posted some more new scans of old illustrations. This time from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark: Agnes Lickfold was my maternal...
by thadmin | Nov 22, 2013 | Beauty, Historical
While sorting some stuff in the basement I came across four old glass plate negatives that I picked up along the way here and there as a photo student at Ryerson lo’ these many years ago. So I scanned them in. After each image I have included a close up of the...
by thadmin | Aug 30, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
I decided to cut things short the day before yesterday. I asked my uncle in Montreal if I might stop by for a night on my way home and he graciously agreed. He and Marilyn are such great people. I love them dearly and cannot think of any family with whom I’d...
by thadmin | Aug 30, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, Nature
Day 1 in Vermont was…two days ago? Three days ago? I was without WiFi for at least a couple of days and have sort of lost track of a few things. Funny how tied I’ve become to time while being able to access services online. The spectre of “what to...
by thadmin | Aug 28, 2013 | Beauty, Nature, Travel
…this post should be called Adirondacks – Day three, but as I am no longer in the Adirondacks, it seems odd to refer to today by that nomenclature. I certainly did wake up in the Adirondack mountains this morning. But I am currently in Montpelier, Vermont,...
