Looking forward

[vaneramos]

I become fulltime dad for two months every summer. We spend extended time at the cottage and go camping. It's busy and exhausting but fulfilling.

This year it's bound to be more complicated. Marian, now 14, wants a job. I intend to continue treating my volunteer position at Two Rivers as a job, limiting my time off. I also plan to register for a plot at the community garden. I suggested she might volunteer there also. She and Brenna helped with holiday camp one afternoon on March Break, quickly earning a reputation among my co-workers as pleasant and responsible. Marian expressed interest in that alternative, although it's also possible she'll get a job in Lindsay, so I wouldn't see her much.

It will be harder spending more time in Guelph. The apartment gets cramped with three people. The air conditioner brings only marginal relief.

I've promised Brenna a camping trip, just the two of us, like one I did with Marian two summers ago, although she would prefer something more civilized without long portages.

I also look forward to visits from a handful of distant LiveJournal friends beginning with ubermunkey in May. It is going to be busy as ever.

Comments

[apel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like these photos. Again, they remind me of paintings from the last decades of the nineteenth century; the first one of wintery impressionism and the second one of the poster art of Toulouse Lautrec. When I compare these images with my photos, mine look unsubtle and concrete, dare I say bourgois. I like the abstractness of these two. It leaves room for the imagination. Something for me to take away and think about in my own photography.

Thanks for sharing these and inspiring me.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you saw the Impressionism; that's precisely what I was aiming for. I don't usually manipulate photos much, but increased the colour saturation in both of these to get the desired effect.

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

I hope, at some point, I can still squeeze in your busy schedule.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Stephen, it's high on my list of priorities. I need you to come.

[hankdmoose.livejournal.com]

There's something about the prospect of yellow snow falling from the sky that I find a more than a little disturbing ;)