movember.

m has flirted with growing various moustaches in the past. this time around, he thought it would be great if he combine his love for the mo and do a little bit of good while growing one. hence, taking part in Movember. this is day 6 of growing his facial hair and it's time to carve out an almighty moustache!











p.s. if you want to kindly help m raise money and assist in raising cancer awareness (specifically, prostate cancer), please go here: m grows a mo for change. thanks!

hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

oh my. how long has it been since either m or i posted here? we've neglected this little blog for way too long. but to be fair, we do have a very lovely and amazing reason for our lack of posting -- we got married last month! yay!

panorama extravaganza

Click to see the large view. Or else!

View from the top of Badger "Mountain" near where we live.

Hmmm...  I see that the blogger maximum picture size - even if you click on them - is 1600px.  Too bad.

video experiment

i thought i'd finally test out the video function of our Nikon d5000. i don't really know what i'm doing with it yet. the video is not edited, it's just as is. m did put music in it to make it slightly less boring. also, i hope Ritche won't mind that we used his music! i better e-mail him to let him know.

squirrel(s)!

remember m's last post about the squirrels in our yard? it's true. we have a few hanging about, partying it up like it's, you know, 2010. our neighbour's walnut tree is akin to an all you can eat nut buffet for these furry creatures.

we have all sorts of squirrel. this one is Man on a Wire of the squirrel world.


this one loves to work on its tan.
and last but not least, the guilty one. so busted.

i really don't mind the squirrels. they are pretty cute and entertaining. but i do wish they left some walnuts for us. oh well. there is always next year.

sunday collection 23

There is a walnut tree in our yard. Or, more precisely, our neighbour's yard. The branches of which reach over the fence and flop mostly into our yard. Quite possibly for this reason, we also have a mild squirrel infestation. These conditions lead to the expression of a fundamental equation to which I had not been exposed - until now:

nuts + squirrels = yard-work

I so love yard-work.

beauty...

...in everyday.




a big plus for our new place: a backyard with a laundry line.

it really is great to be able to hang and dry our wash outside. we consume less energy and our laundry smells oh so fresh. now, if only we can continue avoiding bird droppings and dead tree branches falling on us, we'll have a nearly perfect backyard scenario.

docudrama, part 2.

everyone, meet Simba. this wonder kitty was part of a litter but was unfortunately left behind when its mother moved the rest of the fam somewhere else.

m's parents heard and found Simba outside their window on Thursday. they waited overnight for the momma cat to come back but no such luck. so they ended up rescuing Simba the morning after, bringing her to the vet, and taking care of her.

happily, Simba's adventure will continue. m's parents' found a home for her today. yay!

docudrama, part 1.

it's incredible what you can see outside your window if you pay close attention. the spiders, the insects caught in the webs...it's a veritable drama of life and death. next in the series: birds and squirrels.

i finally got around to taking pictures in our new place. okay, we are still not all unpacked, but seriously, it's almost there. so for now, you only get pictures of our windows which happen to have little ecosystem of prey and predator. that's kinda interesting, right?

sunday collection #22

shoes.
just to be clear, these shoes aren't mine. although, i do have a little shoe collection of my own. not in the Imelda Marcos' shoe collection sort of way, but in a few pairs kind of way.

sunday collection #21

crab.

Ivan did an awesome job showing off the crab, don't you think?

thanks Ivan. you kick the collective asses of the ladies from the Price is Right. you're that good!

oops and hi.

we'd been quite bad at keeping up with this blog. terrible. we'll try a bit better in a little while. unpacking is a job that neither m nor i are particularly good at. we're getting there though. it's a slow process but our place is starting to feel a bit like home.

sunday collection #20

seashells...
...from Ivan.

this was taken a couple of weekends ago. it was a sunny Saturday and we had an impromptu picnic trip to this place called Bellevue Beach, about an hour and half outside St. John's. i'm actually not sure if we found our intended beach destination, but we did have our picnic in a beautiful pond somewhere there and a couple of minutes up the road is an amazing rocky beach.

will post more pictures from this little day trip sometime soon!

winged migration.

okay, seagulls don't migrate. or do they?

i've done my own migration, temporarily, out west and across the border to be with m. and more semi-permanently later on.

for now, we are having an incredibly hot, hot, hot weather around here. even the back of my knees are sweating! not pretty. i'm wishing for the Atlantic breeze to cool me down. and moo moo's soft serve ice cream would be nice, too.

sunday collection 19: rosy

a gust of wind blew all the petals off...

our old apartment.

i returned the keys to our old place yesterday. the thought of leaving this apartment of ours -- which has been our home for nearly a year-- is, frankly, a little bit sad.

goodbye apartment! i must say we've had some pretty amazing and awesome times together. here's to you and to us!