(Day 149) At the waterfront

This early onslaught of summer has everyone excited about water sports. We're blessed to live near the St. Lawrence River and the 1000 Islands, a wonderful place to enjoy all sorts of water-based activities. We were there this afternoon to have our fish & chips dinner in the waterfront park and watch people and other creatures enjoying a fine late spring day. Here's a small view into what was going on.

(18-55mm  f8  1/1000 sec  ISO200)

(70-200mm  f8  1/320 sec  ISO200)

(70-200mm  f8  1/640 sec  ISO200)

(70-200mm  f8  1/250 sec  ISO100)

(Day 17) A fowl theme ...

Ever since I brought home a couple of large roosters, kindly 'foisted' off on us by a too neighbourly neighbour, our home has increasingly taken on a rooster theme. There are mats in the kitchen with roosters on them, we have one (maybe more) rooster clocks, we have many rooster replicas in various nooks and crannies ...

We named the roosters Foghorn and Leghorn, in honour of one of my favourite cartoon shows. Unfortunately Leghorn went on to the big roost in the sky, but Foghorn is holding his own. Once the weather warms up a bit, I'll post his portrait here. In the meantime, here's a photo of our fowl theme ...