Photo A Day, More or Less

It's happening.  The days are getting shorter and the nights cooler.  I've spotted telltale red leaves on the top of our maple tree.  As much as I'd like to hold on to summer, it's slowly losing ground to September and soon enough I'll be chasing after the colours of autumn with my camera.

But for today, just a little more summer.

Boys doing planks in the stifling heat, and the beginning of our new fence.

A walk along the Burlington Pier.

Big kids learning their way around the kitchen, making sure their younger siblings don't starve while the grown-ups are at work.

Game nights.

Back to school shopping.

 And our last official soccer night of the season.

Summertime.

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Photo a Day, Sweet Summertime

We're still enjoying our unstructured summer days.  There's something liberating about having free schedules and lazy days.  OK, so the grown-ups still have to go to work, but having a break from the kids' school and sport schedules has enabled us to enjoy relatively stress-free days.

It would seem that laziness is contagious, as I haven't been very diligent with my camera this past month.

Right now a photo a day just isn't happening.  But summer is still being captured.

Including shots of incoming summer storms.

And the occasional oh-so-very-bad-for-you late night snacks.

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Photo a Day

Since having shared this pathetic fruit basket the other day, I decided I needed to take another picture on a 'good fruit' day and save face.  

I've also decided we have the laziest dogs on the planet.  Every photo I have looks like this:

On a more active note, soccer has started.  Our youngest is very talented, apparently he can play with his eyes closed:

I regret not having brought my camera out to last night's game.  His older brother was awarded a yellow card for a spectacular slide tackle.  Totally not allowed, but it was awesome.  In his defense, it was raining and the field was very slippery.  So there he was, standing in front of the ref, hands on hips, getting told off with the offending yellow card held high for all to see, and I didn't have a camera.  *Sigh* 

And finally, when faced with a nearly empty bag of chocolate chips in the middle of baking something chocolate-y, I had to resort to dismembering the poor chocolate Easter bunny that was lurking in the back of the cupboard:

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It's been awhile...

... and it's hard to believe I've missed an entire winter's worth of blogging. Funny how going back to work cuts into one's spare time. I've missed keeping up with all of our ordinary moments. It was a long winter, which means we're looking forward to what will hopefully be a good summer... fingers crossed. There were snow days and snowmen; hot chocolate, homemade cookies and plenty of hockey. Another Christmas came and went. Easter eggs were coloured, Birthdays were celebrated, Ben lost his first tooth and the kids outgrew all of their jeans. So it goes.

I haven't stopped taking pictures - I'm sure I've added another 500+ pictures to the 6000 or so that are already slowing down my computer. I know it's way past time I moved some to disc but I so love having them right here. I've acquired another camera - a Sony Cybershot DSC H-5, which is slightly smaller and easier to carry than my good old Canon Rebel - but I'm not sure I like the photo quality as well. I'm no pro, but to me digital SLR beats regular digital hands down.


Last night was soccer practice for Matt, this is a good thing as their team was hammered in an exhibition game last Sunday. They'll be needing a lot more practice it seems. Next week the regular season begins for the rest of the boys.

So, the cold arenas, stinky hockey equipment and skate sharpenings are behind us. For the next few months it'll be all about soccer. Just like that, it's spring.

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