Apartment Therapy

Apartment Therapy

Does anyone else out there absolutely love Apartment Therapy?  It is a delicious web site festooned with interior design eye candy.  The site daily lets you inside of the living rooms of hip home owners around the globe. You can find the site here BUT please promise...
Finnerty Sideroad Adventure

Finnerty Sideroad Adventure

Welcome to a real Canadian winter folks!  As my Dad would say, it’s cold enough to freeze the knobs off a brass monkey.  Seeing that I rarely understand my Dad’s sayings, I probably should have asked him what this meant before posting it here…...
Days of Auld Lang Syne

Days of Auld Lang Syne

Happy New Year!  On this foggy, warm New Years Day 2011, I find myself looking back on the year that was, and contemplating the year to come.  Thankfully, I can look back and smile.  The photos above represent a lucky year of adventure…New York and all over...
Wishing You the Merriest

Wishing You the Merriest

Here I am on the eve of heading home for the holidays and I’m feeling quite nostalgic.  This time last year Christmas Eve back home in Forest was extra special.  We all gathered in the town square eagerly awaiting the Vancouver Olympic Torch Relay.  Although my...
Have a Ball This Christmas!

Have a Ball This Christmas!

As I sit in my cheery little flat here on the Toronto boardwalk, snow is gently falling.  It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, both without and within.  I have just finished decorating and the photo above is a suggestion of my retro blue colour scheme for...
The View From 30 Rock

The View From 30 Rock

Yes, that’s right.  This is the view one gets from the top of the Rockefeller Centre, and I was the lucky one to capture it on my last night in New York.  After a long and rewarding day of traversing the city and taking in every sight imaginable, I decided to...
Radio City

Radio City

To be perfectly honest, I was going to name this post “Never Blog on Tuesdays” in reference to my blip of a post this week (missed it? click here).  As my adventuresome blog enters its second year of existence I am learning (it would seem very...
Let Your Light Shine

Let Your Light Shine

As I sit in my wee apartment on the boardwalk here in Toronto, I can hear the waves of Lake Ontario crashing on shore, and see the bright twinkling lights that adorn the trees along the boardwalk and envelope the Leuty Lifeguard Station.  It is Christmas dear...
And Atlas Shrugged:  More New York Stories

And Atlas Shrugged: More New York Stories

This post is dedicated to a very talented young writer named Jaylyn Harrower from my hometown, Forest, Ontario.  While I was away in New York last month each evening I posted a few of the snaps from my adventures on Facebook.  One evening after getting back from a...