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Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

I skipped breakfast, grabbed my camera and jumped in the jeep. The Polar Plunge started at 11am and I knew from past experience a couple of minutes delay would mean missing the whole thing…

Published December 30, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Life in Canada, Photography Tagged Canada, Canadian Winter, Icestorm, photography, Places to visit, Polar Plunge, Weather, Whitby, Whitby Rotary Sunrise Club Polar Plunge

Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

We pull into the fresh-looking plaza on the outskirts of town, its clean lines and manicured verges incongruous amongst the trees and cornfields round about, like work shoes worn with jeans…

Published December 4, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged Canada, Expat Experience, Paris, Places to visit, reasons to love Canada, the expat family, Tim Hortons, tolerance and acceptance

Playing In Paris

Paris, Ontario

Last week S and I hitched a ride with a meeting-bound husband to Paris, Ontario – pop. 11,763.
It was somewhere we’d never been.

We had no phone, little money and zero need for either…

Published October 2, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Photography Tagged Canada, Expat Experience, exploring, Paris, photography, Places to visit, Travel with kids

For Whom The Bell Tolls (or A Funny Thing Happened In Paris)

Town Bell, Paris, Ontario

The plaque on the wall said it hadn’t been rung since July 1st 2002.

Well that was about to change…

Published September 30, 2013
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged Canada, Paris, Places to visit

Toronto Time-Lapse

Toronto Time-Lapse

Next time I find myself exasperated on a Toronto sidewalk with moaning children and and an absent sense of direction, I’ll try to remember the beauty that surrounds me when viewed from a different angle and remind myself that I’m one small part of a living, breathing bigger picture…

Published October 10, 2012
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Life in Canada Tagged Canada, Culture, perspective, Places to visit, Roger Centre, Time-lapse photography, Toronto

History – a moveable feast, or so it would seem…

Simcoe Point House, Ajax, Ontario; 1911

Canadians have this curious tendency to move things to a new location when the fancy takes them. I’m not talking about furniture or fridge magnets here – that would be perfectly normal! No, I mean historical artifacts – buildings to be specific.

Published August 16, 2012
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Life in Canada Tagged Canada, Culture, Expat Info, heritage, Places to visit, Whitby Historical Society, Whitby Ontario

The magnetic pull of Lake Ontario

the beach, lake ontario

I feel an urge to visit the lake with predictable regularity. It starts with an unbidden thought surfacing like a bubble in my mind, innocent in itself, but laced with just enough longing to make it stick.

Published June 13, 2012
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life Tagged Canada, Expat Experience, Lake Ontario, Old Whitby Psych, Places to visit, Port Whitby Marina, sandy beach

Toronto: Discovering the Discovery District

Stewart Building, Toronto

On Friday I was in Toronto’s Discovery District for a morning meeting at CAMH where I’ve volunteered to take part in research studies examining treatment for the prevention of depression relapse.

Published March 19, 2012
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Photography Tagged CAMH, Canada, Culture, Discovery District, photography, Places to visit, Toronto

A Sunday stroll and a history lesson

Less than 300 years ago this area was a wilderness of great forests and secluded clearings, populated by bear, wolf and deer, and the Mississauga Indians, who were hunter/gatherers and camped around the mouth of the creek.

Published November 21, 2011
Categorised as Blog, Expat Life, Photography Tagged Canada, Culture, Duffins Creek, History, Lake Ontario, Oak Ridges Moraine, Places to visit

Silent Sunday – An Afternoon in Ajax

Afternoon in Ajax II

Ssshhhhhhh…..

Published November 20, 2011
Categorised as Blog, Photography Tagged Ajax, Family life, nature, photography, Places to visit

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