Scrooge the Pantomime

The whole cast on Saturday Night along with the 4 ghosts.

Heron today, Amazonia and the Pantanal this time next week.

What our dog did while we went to Qualicum for the weekend

Picture by Roger

Jane took the dogs to look for chanterelle this weekend while we were away. We were bringing "In Juliette's"s Garden" to the Qualicum Theatre Festival. Lucky stayed next door with his best friend Ruffi (an Icelandic shepherd). The play went really well, I got to play with a really great light board and 48 lights and we had a good weekend.

PS. " The Gabriola Players performance of "In Juliet's Garden", which debuted at Gabriola's own Theatre Festival in August and was reprised for the adjudicated one-act play festival at The Village Theatre in Qualicum Beach on Saturday evening, yesterday received the award for "Best Ensemble" – which honours the cast, crew, director, music, costume, make-up, set design ... well-deserved recognition for everyone, and a special mention for Christine who received a personal excellence award for her wonderful portrayal of Ophelia".

Amphitrite Point, Ucluelet

Spent a few hours near the lighthouse at Amphitrite Point watching the huge waves roll across the Pacific from Japan. The very western edge of Canada.

Went bear "shooting" in Ucluelet again.

Looks like the salmon run is almost over. Fewer bears but good pictures - more to come.

Perfect weather for mushrooms

Lots of mushrooms around the place, more pictures at this website http://www.flickr.com/photos/sperolaw/sets/72157625109487309/

Testing my high ISO shooting with D300

Corduroy

White Lightning

I tried a whole bunch of shots at varying ISO trying to keep the f stop at 5 and shutter around 1/200 or better. I was amazed by this shot of lightning which really seems to work for me. These were f5, 1/200 ISO 3200 lens at 55mm (17-55mm lens).

Harvesting seaweed at Bell's Landing

Ten o'clock in the morning on a foggy day we drove to Bell's landing with our garbage cans and the dog - all of a five minute drive. We collected three bins full of seaweed for our compost heap. Tessa collected some yesterday as well. Underneath the seaweed is whole other ecology of bugs and insects. We couldn't see the boats out in the straight but we could hear their foghorns. The rest of Canada (RoC) was just one big white blanket.

Its chanterelle season on Gabriola

Jane went for a walk with her dog this morning and came back with a huge bag of chanterelle, her second in a week. This was our share so that we could make  an omlette. We are clearing the vegetable patch today and will be replanting according to sonia's instructions.

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