Chebogue Meadows walk

Just a few more pics from that morning walk I took with T at the Chebogue Meadows trail. In other news a new lens and light modifier arrived yesterday. I'm really excited to try them out. The annual SouthWest Photo Shoot is coming up soon so that will be a great chance to work with them (and with some great people too).

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Family Literacy Videos

Last year I had the opportunity to work with L'Équipe alphabétisation-Nouvelle-Écosse to create some videos promoting family literacy. Reading has always been a big part of my life (My most recent favourite book is Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. And if Indian Horse doesn't win this year, I'll never listen to Canada Reads again. Probably.) , thanks to my parents' encouragement. They pretty much embodied the principles in these videos. I'm also really pleased that our boys are so into books. T asks to be read to constantly (I'm pretty tired of Lowly Worm and Curious George right now) and P is already devouring novels. All that to say this project was very fun for me to work on. Everyone I worked with at L'Équipe were phenomenal and all the families in the videos were amazing. The first two are in French and the third is Bilingual. If you keep scrolling down there are also English versions of the first two.

snowy walk in the woods

We've been trying to grab onto as much snowy winter fun as we can while the snow is here (tomorrow's rain will be washing it away). Even on those bone-chilling days last week we wrapped everyone up snugly and headed outside. It's been mostly sledding. P is a surprising daredevil, trying to go as fast as possible and aiming for jumps. This is the kid who normally says, 'That looks too risky!' We even got some sledding in last night after supper as the sun was setting. This morning, though, T and I headed for the woods. Chebogue Meadows trail is beautiful any time of year but it's my favourite place to go in winter. When everything is covered in a blanket of snow, it really is a storybook walk in the woods . I wanted T to be able to just enjoy being in the forest so I took my camera and let him wander. We only made it a couple hundred metres down the path but we both had a wonderful time. And, I got what is probably my favourite picture of him so far. T in the woods