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?

slow as molasses.

a couple of weeks ago, a friend's mom made a rather observant comment. she said that Newfoundland has the longest spring. i agree with her. we really do. just look at the buds on these trees outside our kitchen window. they sure are taking their own sweet time.

April 24
April 29
May 14
May 15, okay, this is just a day after the one above.
today, May 18.

see? hardly anything has changed in almost a month!

two minus one.

these two birds were photographed from another window, same part of our home but different corner. it was raining quite a bit that day, as you can see. i thought this pair looked so sweet, getting soaked in the rain together while their tails touched -- their outline forming a heart shape.
more saccharine moment.
but wait, someone ruffled someone's feathers.
i wonder what happened...

it's been awesome posting a little series of the winged and feathered family this past few days. i wanna post more but maybe a little break from it would be a welcome change.

birdlove.

these two were spotted outside our window sometime last week.

i have been noticing a definite sense of manic and frenzied activities among the feathered kind in the last month or so. plus, they are everywhere it seems -- flying like mad up in the sky, hanging out on tree branches and power lines, even on sidewalks. ah, spring love.

sunday collection #7

someone else's miniature house collection.
click on the picture for a closer look.

Sunday Collection 4: Even Sunday-ey-er

Coming soon to a theatre near you!

A super long video of snow collecting on our window. Yup, the weather continues to be great here.

I'm still doing simple D5000 tests... Now that I have a video tripod head I can actually do pans and tilts that look acceptable. This is a veeery slow tilt. Gravy.

in between days.

waiting for spring.

windows.

the last couple of posts had been grey and rather dreary. so, just to change things up a bit and inject a little splash of colour, i thought i'd post these:

these two photos were taken last summer from my old apartment in Calgary. it was early in the evening and the lights were reflected prettily in the living room window. the colours and the mood remind me a little bit of what Wong Kar-Wai would use on his films.



the two pictures underneath were taken yesterday. the first one was taken from the bedroom window or is the bedroom window.


this one was taken from the living room window. the bird is a mobile that i got from Chiang Mai four and a half years ago. this wooden bird has had its wing broken and glued a few times already but it's still in good shape.


oh my. windows. they get dusty and dirty.

part 2.

accompaniment to m's video post. rain, drizzle and fog in photographic version.



the photos above were taken from the turret part of our place. our turret is not grand in the castle kind of way, but it is surrounded and hugged by trees, which is pretty amazing.