Photo Journal: Cottage 2025
On the first day, my sister Hannah and I took the canoe out for a ride. I was getting in first, with Hannah holding the boat against the dock. “Are you good?” Hannah asked while simultaneously letting go. Apparently I was not good because I immediately tipped out of the boat into the murky shallow water 😂 . Then, while out across the lake it started absolutely pouring rain, and Hannah and I had to paddle back, barely able to see from the rain in our eyes and glasses - laughing the whole way.
Finally we got back and asked our dad to take a photo for the memories . . . He did not have his glasses on, so this is the photo he took, which just so happened to be while we were still talking, and missed a second later when we smiled 😂
Took up puzzling, and completed two puzzles in the time we were there. The first one was 500 pieces and fairly easy. The second was 1,000, and being a bunch of individual cats with white space and descriptors and names around them, was actually quite challenging to complete.
I thought this would more be something the adults enjoyed, as Kemper is still a bit too young for large jigsaw puzzles, but she would ask to “play with your puzzle” and sit and look at the pieces with us. “This is fun,” she would say. 🥹😅
Kemper and Hannah spent a bit of time colouring. Kemper is getting really good at colouring inside the lines.
Photo Journal: Cottage, 2024
For the past several summers I have spent a week at the cottage with my mom and dad, and my sister Hannah. This summer my sister, Allysin, and niece, Kemper, also joined us, and my niece Acacia was able to come for a couple days as well.
I really enjoyed unplugging. We all consciously left our phones put away and spent our days hanging out together, canoeing, reading, and our evenings playing cards, and listening to my uncle (our cottage neighbour) share stories from his childhood
In the above photo my nieces are playing Mastermind - a pattern game. It’s pretty simple with one player setting up a pattern, and the other player trying to guess it before they run out of turns. I actually really rather enjoy playing this game, and in the photo you can seeKemper using the box lid to cover her face so she isn’t “peeking”. 🥹
Allysin challenged Acacia to a portrait challenge. Both of them set out to paint a portrait of the other 😂
I drew the outline of a car on the outside of an empty box.
Acacia went “stick fishing” using a long stick we found to pull out much smaller ones.
Butterfly Conservatory ✨
Last weekend I went to the butterfly conservatory with my sister, and two nieces. Recently I’ve been using my Nikon D850 with a 35mm lens, even when I’m out and about. Something about the combo gives these photographs a really classic, retro feel that I am absolutely in love with.
