teahouse

a colourful "teahouse" in a little town called Victoria.

ladies knitting hundred dollard sweaters on site

This was a sweater and knitted item store and these ladies worked on these 30+ year old machines the owner had bought in Sweden and brought to Charlettown. They made these beautiful sweaters right on site. Hundreds of dollars..... didn't buy one, save my money for earrings..

old Protestant graveyard

This 18th century was along a main road in Charlettown. Apparently only Protestants, there was another cemetary in another area. It was well maintained, although it was pouring the day we visited.

It felt really old, I'll insert the sign re the history of the site in another post, interesting.

painted wall mural

a mural in the town of Alberton

barn in Green Gables village

old buggy in the barn

inside Green Gables

furniture of the time

Anne of green Gables story

this is the house where Anne of green Gables lived in the story by Lucy Maude Montgomery. It is located in the town of Cavendish, which is along the north shore of the island.

Brackley Beach

Most beaches have a boardwalk to walk on so as not to walk over the dunes, which are eroding at a fast rate due to weather.

There are thin fences that also are lined beside the dunes along the beach to keep the kids and dogs and people off.

soap maker house

This is a family business. They raise a few goats and make their own hand soap. It comes in various fragrances. Also bath oils etc. They had a viseo telling how they came to be in the business.

Very interesting and great smooth soap, no perfumes.

potato fields

potatoes grow in hills. They are harvested in september, and the later in the year/fall, the longer they can be stores in a cold room. Most storage potatoes are the red ones.

red soil coastline

the earth is red because of the iron in the soil. Makes it perfect growing soil for potatoes, turnips, beans. If the summer warmth lasted longer than approximately 2 months, they would be able to grow the same fruit & vegetables as California.

lighthouse

woods island lighthouse

lobster traps

lobster traps

the pier in Montague

A small fishing village on the eastern coast

Confederation Hall

The building ewwhere the building of Canada took place: forming Provinces.

Prince Edward Island, Canada

In the older part of Charlettown (capital city of the Province of Prince Edward Island) these are some of the colourful old homes.

London again !!!

This was a view of an open roof sight seeing double decker bus photographed from the rooftop of the building Anna's flat is in.

A view down a street, gerkin to the right and left

London Trip with Kate and Geoffl

We were in a shopping arcade this lovely elephant was just outside, who could resist those beautiful colours, Kate spied the little girl sitting underneath, I got her in the shot just by pure luck !!! 500 of these elephants were situated all around London, painted by artists famous and not so famous, for charity - they were all sooo different, I really wished I had photographed more of them. They were sold off, Leigh desperately wanted to buy one (imagine shipping it back to NZ). At this time Leigh and Geoff were inside the arcade photographing something much more mechanical. Will see if I can post a photo of that. Sorry I am not more organized.

Kate the serious photographer on Tower Bridge - I must look amongst Leigh's photos to see if I can find one of Kate and I together, it was so funny we had not met before but we were dressed almost identically - jeans, very similar shirts, etc.

This was taken just a little way from where we had a beautiful lunch with Kate and Geoff, The heavens had opened and we had torrential rain. In the distance you can see the "Gerkin" building - I think in one of my posts on BP to Kate I mistakenly called it the "Cucumber" Well its not really so very different.

Kate with a bigger bird

Sorry I didn't write it down and no way can I remember what it was. Might look it up one day.

Kate with a Kestrel

You might be seeing more pictures of me now that Geoff is a photographer. We visited a Bird of Prey Centre on the way home from Peterborough which is where we had just taken my sister home after a week's visit. It was wonderful to hold such a bird but I'm afraid it wasn't quite so wonderful seeing them either in little aviaries or tethered outside. I think this was a kestrel. Pretty sure actually

Erin and Brian

Erin's new boyfriend Brian, at Bangkok Thai. Oh, and Erin of course.

The Link Trail

Okay, I know this is not a good picture, but it is still kind of fun.
Erin has a column in the Examiner (on online paper) on walking and is
getting some info for her column.

Hal

This is my friend Hal whose wife died, after the funeral and
reception, photo by Keith.

More Keith and Janine

Really, I wanted to show you another shot of Green Lakes.

Keith and Janine at Greeen Lakes

We were in NY for a funeral, but while we were there, we visited lots
of old friends. This is Janine, a poet and dear friend. Green Lakes
has green water and is glacil plunge pool in Karst geology.

Stacks

Keith, Erin and Saraq at the Artpark. I am still taking lots of
pictures, just have little time to post them.

Sara at the Stone Quarry Hill Artpark

She is due Novemeber 10. My first biological grandson!

LLOYDS BUILDING, SCULPTURE AND REFLECTION

This is the rear exit of the Lloyds Building. Most shots of the Lloyds building are from the more impressive and way out side. We were all impressed with this sculpture and couldn't resist going out to steal shots of it even in the rain.

I was quite excited when I saw this one on the computer. My immediate thought was "Private Dancer" and that is what I have called it on BP. I cropped out a distracting horizontal line at the top and cloned in the left hand side of the foreground as the supposed stage lighting was running out of the picture. I really like this and have done a print of it. Will be interesting to see what the judges have to say about it. Trouble is you can only give a title and not explain what it is. Of course it is my reflection in the sculpture.

CHESHIRE CAT

Barbara - home from home with the Cheshire cheese! Cheshire, I believe is where she was born. Right Barbara?

London Trip with Barbara and Leigh

TOWER BRIDGE
Barbara naturally is the gal with the camera and Leigh likewise. Geoff is standing near Leigh.

Pictured Rocks

I have too many sensor spots--one of the reasons it takes me so long to post anything is cleaning up all those wretched sensor spots--almost makes me want to give up photography entirely.

This picture I took on our Vacation at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The falls is called "Bridal Veil Falls" and often doesn't flow during the summer, but we'd had a lot of rain recently when this was taken.

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Hannah Dancing Show

Great view of Hannah. Not so good of her friend Katy who is being squashed

Us in Syracuse by Sara

Photo by Sara, my daughter, 1/1/2009.

Merry Christmas from us

Hope you have a great Christmas and a Great Holiday Season! And a
wonderful new year!!

Usns

Merry Christmas from us. :-D

And So This is England a Week too Early

Needless to say we were at a standstill. Chrissy and I had to go clean the church this morning. Couldn't get the car out to put the vacuum in and couldn't open Don's gate to borrow his wheelbarrow. So I carried broom mop etc etc and Chrissy brought her vacuum in a wheelbarrow and we trundled down in our boots. Geoff and I went to the pub at lunch time and I finally managed to get up to the wood this afternoon. It was a winter wonderland.