I’m a Laird

I had a few hours to myself and I was feeling pretty good (my immune condition seems to have settled down a bit — good news). So I ventured out to a couple of new places and a favourite that has been closed for a while due to the big storm earlier this year.

The House of PainT is located under the Bronson Bridge near Brewer Park and Carleton University. It was an UrbanFest where Painters put murals on the bridge support structure. Amazing Talent.

After I was done, I wanted to photography the flowing water (almost waterfalls) behind Carleton U. There was a path from the House of PainT to the location, but unfortunately the area I wanted to get to was closed off for LRT Construction. It was still a nice walk though.

To top off the afternoon, I drove out to the Mer Bleu Boardwalk. It was heaving with people, so I didnt stay long. Still one of my favourite places to go and photograph

Our daughter that lives, works in Scotland (Orkney) and is a well known photographer in her own right, gave us a Christmas Present last year from a company called GUESS WHERE TRIPS. There are many road trips from various cities across Canada (maybe further afield) that you can choose. We chose one from Ottawa called A Walk on the Wild Side. We ended up having a fantastic day out on a journey that took us on a 300km round trip. I hope you enjoy the photos.

First Stop was the Morris Island Conservation Area. Stunning!

The second stop was in Arnprior (Stop at Wes’s Chip Wagon — Super Yummy) where we visited the Galilee Conservation Park

Our Third Stop was in Renfrew, where we visited one of only three swing bridges in Canada.

We finished our day out with a stop at a rustic farmers market in Calabogie and then drove back home via Almonte where we had IceCream.

Where did September go? Today we took a couple of short walks in our hometown of Orleans. One was along the river pathway and another in the heart of Orleans that I never knew existed. We are hoping to do a small road trip next weekend when the leaves should be more spectacular.

We were gifted a 2 night stay at the Somewhere Inn in Calabogie, Ontario on Labour Day weekend. A lovely little boutique hotel. We really enjoyed our stay with a couple of little road trips to Renfrew for dinners and an amazing hike out to the Eagles Nest Lookout which is just up the road from the hotel.

On our way back from Prince Edward Island, we had a 2 night stay in Quebec City, Quebec. Our daughter had never been before and it made a great place to stop on the way back after a full day of driving. We did the hop-on-off bus tour of the city and we were able to see and hear about sights that even after several visits I had never seen. We also visited Montmorency Falls just outside the city. This had been on my bucket list for a few years now.

A postponed family vacation from 2021 due to Pandemic and Health issues happened this year instead. We are visiting with our favourite down East family. Great times!

More photos

So I don’t typically photography people, but we got invited to watch/photograph a former daycare child that we looked after. These 8 years old’s were absolutely brutal/ I had no idea Lacrosse was so rough. I played it in Highschool, but it was nothing like this.

Today I joined several other people from the Conqueror Virtual Walk Challenges here in Orleans.

We met for the parkrun and then had coffee at a local Timmies

parkruns are free, weekly, community events all around the world.

parkrun events are 5k and take place on Saturday morning in parks and open spaces.

parkrun is a positive, welcoming and inclusive experience where there is no time limit and no one finishes last. Everyone is welcome to come along, whether you walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate.

I was really excited to be notified that I came in 2nd in my age group even though I just walked the route.

Been a tough month physically with my Autoimmune disease flaring up. I was feeling up to trying a bit of photography and trying to figure out this Infrared photography thing. Using lessons learned from my previous two little outings, I headed to the LRT constructions sights near the IMALAIRD Photography worldwide headquarters. Again, I learned a few things. Hope you enjoy these efforts.

I had a big morning planned for photography at Mer Blue Bog, but there must be storm damage there as the road was closed when I went down to park, So I headed off to Petrie Island instead. I took a pile of photos but as I am still learning only 2 are good enough to share this time.