On this Canadian Thanksgiving Sunday, it is not hard to look back on this week and recall just how much we have to be thankful for. I will start with the quote in the title of this blog. As many of you know, Canadian author Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for...
The perfect pairing with this week’s photo of an autumn barn is a quote from Carolyn Jourdan’s memoir, Heart in the Right Place. It goes as follows: “Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world...
I was reminded this week of an anniversary. Four years ago this month I began writing to you here as the Vagabond Photographer! At the time, I never really thought about the why’s or when’s of blogging. Indeed I am quite surprised that I kept a fairly...
At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it IS good to be back home again! John Denver seems to be my Driving-Home-to-Forest muse each time I hop in my Jeep and head west. This weekend I made a quick trip home to visit family and attend our yearly tradition, The Forest...
This spectacular view greeted me early this morning. September gives up the best sunrises I think! I was up early as I have been every Sunday on this day for the past 10 years to participate in the annual Toronto Beaches Terry Fox Run. As many of you know from past...
This past winter I found a tin of old photographs hidden in the back of my clothes closet. This tin has traveled with me with each move in Toronto for years but somehow I had forgotten about its existence. Inside I found all the photos I had taken with my old Fuji...
When I was 10, my Mum and Dad gave me the best Christmas present ever. You might think it was that magnificent Toronto Maple Leaf sweater I wore until it was in threads. It wasn’t. The gift to top all gifts was a brilliant yellow typewriter! As a child I wrote...
The inspiration for today’s post comes from my friend Doug Peterson (@dougpete). We had an exchange on Twitter yesterday about farm life and it brought back a flood of welcome memories. Thanks to a recent visit back home in Forest, and the ScannerPro iPad app, I...
Yesterday I had the good fortune to attend the 5th instalment of Book Camp Toronto, an annual gathering of book/reading lovers designed to give voice to the opportunities and challenges that are affecting the Canadian publishing industry. Each year Book Camp attracts...
As many of you know, I have picked up a pretty interesting summer photography gig that has me vagabonding across Toronto and Ontario gathering original snaps for a new World Cultures course for Ontario distance education. I am having a blast and learning a lot...
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