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What’s with everyone going on vacation this week?

October 20, 2011 by Tricia

A few people I know are on vacation this week. My brother is in Mexico and and so is another girlfriend of mine and another friend took a trip to Florida. It figures … just when it starts to get cold and rainy here in Toronto several people I know head off to warm places. Sigh!

Actually … one of my friends is on a scuba diving trip and she sent an email the other day with a few pictures that she took underwater. I’m a photographer as well so loved seeing the images she sent.

In her email she also told me about a new toy that she was going to try on her next dive – they’re liquid image summit series goggles and they’re basically diving goggles that allow you to film your dive. Pretty cool! I’m waiting to hear back from her so I can find out how it worked.

Have you gone on a vacation recently or are you going on a vacation? I won’t be going on one anytime soon even though I’d love to!

The Buskers Festival

September 17, 2011 by Tricia

My husband and I enjoy going to as many local events as possible – especially during the summer. I can’t believe that I almost forgot to post photos from the last interesting Toronto event we went to together.

Near the end of August my the Buskers Festival was held in Downtown Toronto. I’ve never attended this festival before but I’m pretty sure I’ll be going again. I really enjoyed what I saw. Firedancers, performers doing slight of hand tricks, flame throwing acts, dancing dolls, people walking around on stilts, dancers, acrobatics, musicians and more – all on the street.

Here’s a photo of Silver Elvis .. as I took the photo our dog, Midnight, started barking at him so he was enjoying himself posing for her and the crowd around us was laughing their heads off at our dog. It was funny.

Here’s another shot:

Then there was this woman who was dancing like a wind up doll:

One of the best events that we saw the night we went was a group called Flame Oz. I took video of their performance but I haven’t uploaded it yet. It was fantastic!

Have you ever been to a Buskers Festival?

The Taste of the Danforth

August 7, 2011 by Tricia

My husband and I just got back from The Taste of The Danforth. It’s and Annual festival in my neighborhood celebrating all things Greek. Of course, that section of the Danforth is fairly multicultural now, so when visiting the “Taste of the Danforth” you can sample foods from India, Mexico, Greece, Thailand and pretty much anywhere as there are all kinds of restaurants along that 3 km stretch.

So .. my husband and I live in the Toronto Danforth area so we walked from our house to The Danforth and then walked up and down the whole Taste of the Danforth area. It was loud and crowded and it rained on us a few times. It was also quite hot and humid! After a while of walking I was almost looking forward to the rain to help me cool off!

In addition to sampling food at the Taste of the Danforth, my husband and went in to a few stores. The stores that normally close by 6 pm or so on Saturdays stay open until midnight during the Taste of the Danforth so you get to shop in stores that you normally wouldn’t. I actually went in a few stores that I normally wouldn’t have shopped in – my husband and I went in a record store that had vintage vinyl records, and we went into a few clothing stores.

We also went into one of the jewelery stores just to browse around. We were both jewelers when we met and we know the jeweler who owns the store we went in to so it was sort of a visit. we got into a discussion about jewelry fashion trends for moms while we were there because I’ve seen a few news stories lately about “push jewelery” as in a jewelery gift for a new mom. We certainly didn’t call it that when I was a jeweler!

We bought enough food that we were able to bring some home for tomorrow. Yum – Gyros and Spanokopita for dinner tomorrow too. Can’t wait. Do you like Greek food too? Do you go to local festivals in your area or home town?

Trying to work on my photography skills

July 17, 2011 by Tricia

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last few months working on my photography. I’ve always been interested in photography, but last year I slacked off and didn’t take as many pictures and the ones that I did take I didn’t edit or use on my sites.

So this year I’ve made a major effort to both increase the amount of photos that I take when I go to events and to get them edited and uploaded to my computer quickly.

I’ve also been experimenting with cameras. I’ve been using both my Cannon Digital SLR and my new Nokia N8 12 megapixel camera. One camera that recently caught my eye was the digital casio. It’s 14 mp. I have to check it out more, but that sounds pretty good. Maybe it could be a travel camera.

Do you enjoy photography? Do you try to bring a camera with you where ever you go?

Walk the dog while taking a bike ride?

June 25, 2011 by Tricia

I keep seeing people riding by our house on their bikes with their dog trotting by their side. It seems like a great way to give the dog a bit of extra exercise.

I have to admit, we haven’t pulled our bikes out yet this year. My knee has been really bad this year. I was born with knee problems and now it’s turned into arthritis it seems. Yes I’m kind of young to get arthritis, but my leg bones aren’t positioned correctly – my tibia turns a little more outward than it should, so that messes up my knees. I have a feeling I won’t be riding my bike this summer – not until I get my knee feeling better.

My husband on the other hand would probably love to pull out his bike and go for a ride regularly. We live on a busy street, but in general the area is pretty good for bike riding, and if we wanted we could always get out the yakima bike racks and take our bikes to one of the fantastic bike trails in the area since we live near several fantastic interconnecting park systems throughout Toronto.

Our dog would love to trot along beside the bike. I’m certain of it .. oh and she’d be a fantastically tired puppy when the bike “trot” was finished. Perhaps she’d look all sleepy like she did when I took this picture of her back in January?