Convergence

Convergence

Don’t you just love it when things come together? I have been thinking about convergence all weekend. It started with my drive home to my folk’s place in Forest. I try to take the back roads as often as possible – it is why the Jeep was invented!  On...
Pilgrim Soul

Pilgrim Soul

  As many of you know, I spent part of last week in hectic, frenetic, exciting New York City.  I was fortunate to attend a conference called Tools of Change, a publishing industry gathering of the brightest and best intent on learning how to not only survive but...
Homegrown and Feisty

Homegrown and Feisty

Sunday tends to be the day that all the ideas that have been swirling about in my head all week bump into each other and somehow make a story.  This morning was no different, but the various pieces seemed quite disparate at first. I started with a stunning hardcover...
The Joy of Reading

The Joy of Reading

You must be wondering why I am featuring one of my arty snaps of the iconic, architecturally stunning Guggenheim Museum in New York? I won’t keep you in suspense long… Many of you know that I have been toiling away in the publishing industry for some time...
All That Glitters…

All That Glitters…

I never thought I’d say there’s such a thing as too many adventures…too much vagabonding… but after The Great Via Rail Adventure, Christmas back home and the start of a new job coupled with that other holiday tradition, “The Christmas...
“The Great Affair is to Move” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Great Affair is to Move” – Robert Louis Stevenson

This week I’m sharing one of my favourite snaps from this fall taken at lovely Providence Bay, Manitoulin Island.  I was on a short weekend trip with my folks and managed to capture this lucky shot just at sunset, the golden hour to photographers. As the weeks...
“To Make An End is to Make a Beginning” – T.S. Eliot

“To Make An End is to Make a Beginning” – T.S. Eliot

On this New Year’s Eve I thought T.S. Eliot’s quote from his poem “Little Gidding” an appropriate title for this my last post of 2011.  The section of the poem that is quoted on New Year’s Eve goes as follows: “For last year’s...
Merry Christmas from Vagabond Photography!

Merry Christmas from Vagabond Photography!

On the eve before I pack for Christmas back in Forest, I wanted to take a moment to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, happy, peace-filled holidays and share with you one more photo from the Great Canadian Railway Adventure. This is always a time to remember just...
Letting Go and New Beginnings

Letting Go and New Beginnings

  On this week before Christmas I am writing this post from the rustic, cozy great room at Long Beach Lodge in groovy Tofino, BC.  I am looking out over the breadth of Long Beach, listening to the surf pound through drops of rain, with the gentle festive strains...
Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back

On this wonderfully sunny Sunday I am looking forward to my week ahead.  Many of you know that I’ve had a bit of a rough ride this past fall and I find myself a little careworn, bedraggled, bumped and bruised.  Despite this world-weary-ness I also find myself...