31 January 2017

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Shipping by...


This was one of my favourite visits on the Halifax Harbour... the HMCS Sackville

30 January 2017

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Monday's Critters



Back in 2007 I visited the Gosford Wildlife Park, NSW. One can interact directly with most of the animals. Not the dingoes though. They were kept well-fenced off. Just the keepers with access. Walking in with a bucket of raw chook seemed to me to be a tad heavier than foolhardy...

29 January 2017

28 January 2017

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Saturday Symmetry



Railway siding in Nova Scotia... the trucks were not rusting, I alone made them so.

27 January 2017

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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
(Aesop)

26 January 2017

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Last Thursday... the first of the year...


Industrial landscapes can be decorative too...


25 January 2017

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Wings on Wednesday - 
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.



Not your common or garden sparrows...or house sparrows, even. No. 
These are the now 'at risk'  Tree Sparrow. I was thrilled to spot them, over in S E Scotland.

24 January 2017

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Shipping by...


The Canadian coast guard vessel "Earl Grey".

23 January 2017

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Monday's Critters


Mydarling Angel Jasper... he was a sukhi-boy... gone these past six years.

22 January 2017

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SUNdays



My late mother was able to turn her hand to most crafts.

Stained glass was one such.

21 January 2017

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Saturday Symmetry



Paving in Kingston, Ontario.

20 January 2017

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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
(St Francis of Assisi)


19 January 2017

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Thursday... it's relentless...



Puddle in the Trossachs

18 January 2017

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Wings on Wednesday - 
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.



Always decorative...

17 January 2017

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Shipping by...


Halifax Harbour is a very busy shipping port...

16 January 2017

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Monday's Critters



In the YAMarchives is this one of a Bengal tiger. Taronga Zoo, Sydney.

15 January 2017

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SUNdays


Sunset over the Cowal Peninsula.

14 January 2017

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Saturday Symmetry


Promenade gardens by the Proctor and Gamble buildings in Cincinnati.

13 January 2017

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"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
(M J Wheatley)


12 January 2017

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Thursdays - will be much as they always were...



... Just a little bit left-field...



The Kelpies, Falkirk.

11 January 2017

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Wings on Wednesday - 
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.



One of the ubiquitous magpies of Dunoon.

10 January 2017

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Shipping by...


At the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax Nova Scotia, there is the exhibition for the Titanic; whilst none of the original lifeboats survived, it was told that this example was a close resemblance to size and style of those on the ship. Not at all large...

09 January 2017

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Monday's Critters


From the YAMarchives... a baby mongoose at Taronga Zoo, Sydney

08 January 2017

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SUNdays



Noon, facing South, views of the Assynt, Wester Ross.

07 January 2017

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Saturday Symmetry


Light and shade... a 'slice' of window decor on the Bank of Nova Scotia building, Halifax.

06 January 2017

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May the new year open up new possibilities, new connections, new hopes... and maybe an upgrade! YAM xx


05 January 2017

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New year, new Thursday...



...May it be industrious...







Spotted on the Ohio river, Cincinnati

04 January 2017

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Wings on Wednesday - 
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.



"Eider've been here to wish you a guid new year... but Ei wuz a but under the feather..."

03 January 2017

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Shipping by...

A different angle on the HMCS Preserver (first seen two shipping posts back).

02 January 2017

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Monday's Critters



How was your Hogmanay?

01 January 2017

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SUNdays



New year dawns...

A BLESSED, HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR DEAR BLOGPALS!!!