Things I Love - Post #4

It's been so long since I've posted, and for that I'm so sorry. Though, I'm not entirely and utterly sorry because I was off having family time and loads of fun with them, which was what I needed. However, I'm now back, have caught up with most of the blogs/people/messages/e-mails/etc that have piled up in my departure and now I get to post! (Which was the part I was really looking forward to doing. :D)

1. Poor Michael's Bookshop - In the small, tourist-y town of Onanole, Manitoba there's this jewel of a book store. Second hand books in the front and cafe/fair trade shop in the back, music plays while the locals chat over their favourite cups of coffee. I got the green bracelet while my dad got the dancing frog candle holder (he has this thing for frogs, IDEK), my sisters got bracelets and earrings, and my mother a ring. Then there was the ridiculously cute finger puppets. :) All in all: any time possible, I will be haunting this delightful treasure. The best part? We caught it on it's one open time during the off season for Easter weekend!
2. Scott Caan Photography - Okay, okay, okay. I know I've done nothing but talk about him (okay, this is only my third post with him included), but! For very good reason: this man is ridiculously, brilliantly, mind blowingly talented (and needs to shoot in colour more often). In that way where I actually want to go shooting with the man other than drool all over him because he takes beautiful pictures. And not just of things I actually expected. For the most part, his pictures have depth to them, which is something I'm always looking for in a fellow photographer, so I was more than pleasantly surprised. Some of my favourites:





3. Homemade Nutella - Found via Anthology, they posted about this (surprisingly!) simple recipe for homemade nutella. The ingredients, instructions, and images (see what I did there?;D) make it seem like a wonderfully fun and tasty thing to try out.
4. Voting in my first Federal election! Even though the party I voted for didn't get into power, it was still kind of exciting. :) (And that's all you'll hear on the matter.)


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Hope you found something you liked, and I am off to bed. It's late, I've been sleepy for the past....I don't even know how long anymore, and I have a busy, busy week ahead of me.

W is for ... (Noah & the) Whale

So, today the new Noah & the Whale album, Last Night on Earth, was leaked. I don't know if you realize how much I absolutely adore Noah & the Whale. And by adore, I mean absolutely love. I can't actually remember when I first stumbled upon them, but I've adored them for ages. I haven't had a chance to listen to the new album yet, being at the hostel without my headphones and all. Instead, I give you one of my favourite songs off their first album: Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down.

I got onto a bus last night at 9:10 p.m. and arrived in Ottawa 11:45 p.m. Cabbed it to the hostel and got into bed fairly early, considering when I got in. Alarm went off at 8:00 a.m. and found where I was supposed to go to meet up with the Forum group, HOWEVER, I still ended up lost for an hour and a half before I realized I needed to go one more street over to find the place I want to go.

The four hours that I spent with the group went really well, even though I need to figure out how to make sure my camera's taking pictures that are in focus and clear. It's starting to irritate me. Though, I've noticed that this really only happens with my kit lens, so maybe I should just stick on my 50mm fixed and work with that. Especially since I left my 70mm-200mm f/2.8 at home, which I'm now regretting like whoa. Ah well.

So, I should really head to bed, especially since I'm hoping to meet up with the group at 8:15 a.m. at Capital Hill tomorrow morning.




P.S. If I develop any new interests in politics, it will all link back to Justin Trudeau. Srsly. I'm almost positive it's against the political game rules for a politician to be that good looking. I'm just saying.