New York panoramas

Off again on some travels. This time it was New York for a course last weekend but there was time to catch up with friends and for trips to museums and the Brooklyn botanical garden, seen here.

Spring is here!

Bit of a crocus fest today when I got home. After taking off the autumn leaves, these little guys sprung up. If only they had real saffron.

Post St. Patrick's day

It was an Irish feast yesterday. After last weekend's Irish film festival, we basically just stuck to celebrating St. Patrick's day with food. I think that's a good way.

Seeing as I don't drink beer, I can consume Guinness in cake form. I found the recipe here, which is basically the Nigella Lawson recipe, that I can't find. I've searched all of her cookbooks that I own and nothing. This is driving me crazy because I know I made it before.

with the addition of candy shamrocks

Not as good as my mom's soda bread but I did use a recipe from a book she gave me! Irish cheddar did accompany it.

And there was corned beef and cabbage, although that's not actually Irish and the cabbage wasn't my favourite Irish spring cabbage.

Spring is here?

Great weather today. I thought on Thursday that the place need some signs of spring so I bought these flowers. Always handy for doing some indoor studio practice too.

We had a great day out yesterday with a trip to the Tiff Lightbox for the Irish Film festival. Today was a taking advantage of the warm weather and doing an early spring-clean and getting in some exercise as well.

Busy week

Well it was a busy week this past week. Work, doing volunteer work for an art organization, an assignment for my NYU class and an exam and an orientation to join a photography collective. I'm not complaining since I've enjoyed it all. I do have some emails to write to people. Will email soon!

I did manage to fit in a macarons baking class and they actually looked like the real thing! I was shocked. They also tasted like the real thing (also important!).

At the baking supply place where I took the course, I also bought financier moulds and made this recipe. The recipe didn't say how much salt and didn't mention when to put in the almond extract (I'm not even sure it really needed it). I put in a pinch of salt and put the extract in when I poured the wet ingredients in.

Missing France

It just hits me from time to time how much I miss France. Thought I would create a photo to revive the memory of our trip last year.

Toulouse

Cooking

Just some cooking from last week. Using the tagine again! And I thought the colours of our organic delivery deserved a photo.

Lamb and pepper tagine

Salad using the above.

Thursday and time to remember the weekend

The Rosedale Diner

Summerhill LCBO

posh market nearby

Well it's Thursday again and still thinking about the weekend before and our nice walk around our old neighbourhood. What will we do this weekend?

Time

This is one of the images I did for the magnets I created for the art show way back in November. I just checked to make sure I hadn't already posted it. It does appear in an overall shot of all the magnets but not up close.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay

I thought it was an appropriate image for today as we did a little journey to our old neighbourhood and remembered fond times there. Really nice, sunny day too and a good meal at the old Rosedale Diner. Great day out! I do miss the convenience that the area offered. Living above a 24hr supermarket did have its advantages especially when you forgot to pick something up. And I missed the times that we just wandered the huge LCBO liquor store in the old train station at Summerhill. There were times we didn't even buy anything (rare) but just went to look at the building and the bottles and to see some people panic when the shelves start to shake when a train goes by above the store.

Welcome home with virtual flowers

Welcome home to my mom! Don't worry, you'll get real flowers soon.

More lomo inspired photos on a cold day

I did these photos a couple of weekends ago but maybe more will get done today. Plans are changing, though, and there are a load of other things to do too. 

Bordeaux

Zoe

It's a really cold day here after barely registering it was winter for the past couple of months. And there's even snow. While I would love to stay in all day, that's not possible. It makes me appreciate the scene of these roses all the more.

Some old camera, new camera stuff

I've been wanting to use my vintage cameras for a long time now. Only a few would work with my digital camera. Here are some examples. Of course, wee Zoe features in a lot of them.

A view of the neighbourhood from our window (of course a mirror image)

Using the other Kodak

Again, it's kind of playing with that idea of Instagram and the like but also recalling early photography. I sometimes miss the magic of the darkroom but I don't miss the chemicals. I love the dust and scratches that show up in these images and the framing.