Here is a photograph of Confederation Building taken from Long Pond a couple of weeks ago just after the pond had frozen over. So far this year we have been having a mild winter, compared to last year but it’s still more than cold enough for my Irish blood.

I attended my first Remembrance Day ceremony in St John’s today. Here in Canada everyone wears a poppy in the days running up to November 11th and there is a tradition that after the ceremony people line up to pin their poppies on the wreaths that have just been laid. Seeing hundreds of people queue to lay their poppies was a more touching part of the day than all the speeches and ceremony.

I took this photo during the 2014 World Wide Photo Walk last weekend in St John’s. This year I tried to focus on getting photos with people in them. Street photography with strangers in them is a bit outside my comfort zone. When out taking photos on the street I prefer taking photos of crowds or landscapes not individual strangers who might not like their photo being taken. That said I’ve never actually had anyone object to having their photo taken and the buskers around the city provided some great subjects, this guy was one of the best.

A photo of the old Cape Spear Lighthouse. This is the first time I’ve been to Cape Spear in good weather so it was nice to admire the view (once I went there and the fog was so thick you couldn’t see the top of the new lighthouse from the bottom).

I seem to have reduced the frequency of posts here to once a month. I have to do better, it’s not like I don’t have photos to post, I’ve still got some from our trip to Bauline and I iceberg photos and baby photos and lots of others. I’ve got to pay more attention to my blog.

This photo is, as I mentioned, from our trip to Bauline. The little boats pulled up at the end of the harbour. I love this little community, its very photogenic and quiet. I’ve got to go out there on my own with a few spare hours to wander off down some of the tracks I don’t want to drive on.

It’s been another busy few weeks getting ready for Molly’s baptism and my family coming over for it from Ireland. We did do a drive over to Bauline again to show them a smaller old Newfoundland community that isn’t too far from the city. I threw my camera bag into the car just in case I got a chance to take some photos and I was glad I did when we stumbled upon what I can only call an anchor graveyard where old boat anchors have been left to rust.