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Happy New Year 2026

Gotta say I’m starting the New Year right with two posts. The previous post should have happened yesterday but it didn’t. At least if happened. I didn’t post as much in 2025 as I had planned. Here’s hoping 2026 turns out as a good years for creative photography. As has happened for many years we have a new calendar to hang. As I mostly took photos of dogs and flowers last year, I have my trusty Trail Camera assistant to thank for a number of shots for the 2026 calendar. Below are the photos we get to look at each month for 2026.

Posted by  |  January 1, 2026 | Categories: Belgian Malinois, Calendars, Horses, Saskatchewan wild life, White tailed deer, Wild life | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

Ian’s Lights

About 1/2 a mile south of McLean Sk. the month of December you will find some Christmas magic. More Christmas lights than you can count. If you are the type of person that needs more information. Check out Ian’s Christmas Lights/Friends of 1-D Fundraiser on Facebook. Or follow this link https://www.world-spectator.com/news_story.php?id=5959
Tuesday night we went to see the magic. A perfect evening. No wind and a mild temperature. How many times do you think a person (an old person) can say WOW on a 45 minute walk. As it turns out – quite a few. The photos are nice and tell the story but you need to actually walk amount the lights to feel the magic. They are closed now for the season but come December 2026, I will be walking amount the lights looking for the magic of Christmas!

Posted by  |  January 1, 2026 | Categories: Christmas | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Mounted Shooting

Can you pat your head, rub your tummy and recite a nursery rhyme? How about ride a horse through a designated pattern, and using blank ammunition in different styles of guns and shoot ten ballons. Fastest time wins. I spent a Saturday watching members of the Sask Mounted Shooters show how its done. Mounted shooting requires competitors to use four guns — 2 single-action revolvers, 1 lever-action rifle chambered in pistol caliber, and 1 side-by-side double-barreled shotgun. I was only able to watch the revolver part of the program. It is a pretty fast action sport. Here are some shots from the morning.  Click on the image and then right click to see the complete image and move thru the gallery. Enjoy!

Posted by  |  September 5, 2025 | Categories: Mounted Shooting, Sask Mounted Shooting | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Mid Summer Festival 2026 edition

It’s hard to believe August has arrived! Doesn’t seem that long since school was just let out for the summer and the wild roses were blooming. This weekend we celebrated mid summer. Once again the Mid Summer Festival in Fort Qu’Appelle didn’t disappoint. There were old favorite vendors and quite a few new booths. I spent an hour wandering and enjoying everything I saw. Visiting with friends I met as I wandered the grounds. I hope you enjoy the selection of photos I’m sharing with you. They are an excellent example of what there was to see. Enjoy! Click on the image and then right click to see the complete image and move thru the gallery.
 

Posted by  |  August 3, 2025 | Categories: Art, Crafters, Creative, Festivals | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Saskatchewan Highland Gathering and Celtic Festival

In May I was able to delete an activity from my Bucket list. The Saskatchewan Highland Gathering and Celtic Festival in Regina. Four things if I ever go again. There are a lot of people; Take a chair; Eat before I go of as there are lots of food truck and it all smells delicious; Plan to spend the whole day. It was very entertaining as I expected t to be. Just people watching was fun. I didn’t stay for the whole day. Here was a few shots of what I did see. If you are wondering as I did what the things on the socks were I can tell you. They are called Kilt Flashes. Some say the are to indicate a man’s marital status and another thought is they are to help keep the socks up. Maybe I will go again in 2026. With chair and full tummy. Click on the image to see the complete image and then right click and move thru the gallery.
 

Posted by  |  June 3, 2025 | Categories: Highland games | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Crocuses 2025

Each year I say no more. For 25+ years a dog and I have gone crocus hunting so I have more than enough photos of these cheerful little flowers. This year was no different. I have more shots to add to my collection of these spring blossoms. I’m sharing this year’s addition. I hope you enjoy them.  Click on the image and then right click to move thru the gallery. The file will automatically resize.

Posted by  |  May 9, 2025 | Categories: Crosuses, Flowers, Other, Spring flowers | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

They Walk Among Us

I had the privilege of seeing a herd of about 40 white tail deer. Spring is slowing arriving in my area and the deer are on the move. For awhile it was a pretty decent winter for them, then the snow started to pile up deep and hard. In some areas on hills the wind cleared the snow away and the deer were able to graze. I hope you enjoy these graceful animals.

Posted by  |  March 26, 2025 | Categories: Deer, Saskatchewan wild life, White tailed deer, Wild life | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

Auld Lang Syne

The song that will been sung across the world at midnight. The old Scottish ballad written in 1788. Some people will raise a toast to the new year 2025. Some will look at the clock, see it is midnight, mumble the words to the song, turn over and go back to sleep. Others, me probably being in that group won’t welcome 2025 til I wake up in the morning. However you celebrate the new year, Happy New Year!!! No new year’s resolutions in this house. The only constant happening is the new calendar, as it has for almost 30 years. Below are the shots which we will enjoy this year as the months go by. Starting with the cover! I hope you enjoy the picks for 2025. Look forward to sharing my photography with you in 2025.  


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Posted by  |  December 31, 2024 | Categories: Belgian Malinois, Creative, Dogs, Flowers | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

Plans

We are all familiar with the phrase “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry”  a line from a poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns – AI Overview. Early on in the fall a client contacted me about taking shots to be used as 2024 Christmas card. A productive photo shot was held. Before a shot could be chosen and a Christmas card produced, a postal strike happened. This gave me a chance to try different backgrounds, maybe producing an imagine which could be used in 2025. I share with you the results.
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Posted by  |  December 29, 2024 | Categories: Backgrounds, Christmas, Creative | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Creativity

Creativity should happen all year long but ….. it doesn’t. In my world anyway. So that means I am scrambling come the end of the year for a Christmas card(s). This year there was a postal strike that went on until it was to late so send cards out. A card that hadn’t been designed yet, If a card had been designed and sent out, it would have been the 26th card to be designed and sent to family and friends, Would that make 26 cards collectors item? The cards below were designed for Facebook.

Posted by  |  December 26, 2024 | Categories: Belgian Malinois, Christmas, Creative, Dogs | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment