Quebec

Quebec City.



My awesome second host family in Quebec.



In Quebec, I was a fleuralculturalist. This is an example of my work.



La Hotel de Ville. Sometimes we held our Educational Activity Days here, and my work placement had us here for work or at break quite a bit.



The Cegep. A cegep is something inbetween highschool and University, only found in Quebec. If not at the Hotel de Ville, this is where we would have our weekly Educational Activity Day.

Africa 2

A partially-tilled field.



Some palm trees at the Maison des Jeunes, the youth hostel where we stayed in Bamako. I didn't really see these anywhere else, so I wondered if they were decorative, but the Maison de Jeunes... Let's just say it didn't seem to be targeting tourists.



We got to tour the countryside a bit when we were in Bamako for the mid-phase camp. Nobody told us what we were going to be doing, so I wound up climbing mountains in flip-flops, with one bottle of water, which ran down partway through. I remember complaining, "This isn't just stupid... It's dangerous". Some lovely hills, regardless.

Africa 1

Julia and Scott are leading a donkey cart full of sand, which we will mix with another type of soil to create planting soil.



The group, tilling rows of earth to create a garden for the village women. This was by far our longest work project.



My host family in Mali. I may have been the only Canadian to remember everyone in their host family's name.



Me and Dinding.



Back in Canada, rocking the Malian look.

The Suited Me

The Bearded Me

Winter 2010

I can't decide if the snowflakes give or take away from this photo. I've got an unhappy notion that they might take away.



I've got three pictures of train tracks. The camera is point high-up in one, medium in the other, and low in the other. I chose medium-height.



Here is an image of the forest I value most hereabouts. I've taken some Autumn pictures of it, too.



This is a frozen waterfall. Might not be big enough to call it that but I don't know another word for it.



I found this stone formation in a relatively obscure location, which I'd walked by before, but which I'd never really thought about until I was out and about with my camera.



This is the river from which I got my waterfall picture. You can see it in this one too, actually.



Remember this one from my Fall update? Seasonal comparison. I was told by my Media Arts teacher that it's not good to put two repeated things next to each other when both those things needed to be done by individual effort, because every slight difference becomes heightened to the audience, and since I took both images separately, without a reference with me, I'm sure there's difference. But the two images aren't next to each other, and I love the comparison. Still prefer Fall, though.

Christmas 2009

This was our tree this year. If you look closely, you'll notice our star is wearing a Santa hat. Duncan took all the pictures in this post.


Picture of presents.


More presents!


Our cat, Blackavar, with tree and presents.


Large shot of Blackavar. He won't show his face to anyone who isn't me, Mom, or Duncan, so this is probably the only way you're ever going to see him.