#Photoblog

Heather Cardle

Jun 11, 2021
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 24 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 24 season 4) Some mornings you just wake up and hit the ground running, that would be today. My walking buddy came up with a great idea for our daily walks: let's avoid the trails and the mesh hoods and walk the road right outside our front door instead. For the most part we've come back from our new walk route with far less blood donations and we free up the rest of our day for other things such as chores. Having not ever seriously tried to grow vegetabl

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Heather Cardle

Jun 4, 2021
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 23 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 23 season 4) Discovering and learning lots about "shtuff" here in the country. An example would be: learned a new shortcut to the hardware store that takes me past a pond that had two great white herons or egrets. Not sure exactly what they are but when I post the image I'll be sure and ask all you bird nerd buddies here. I was hoping it was a nesting pair and was without camera (of course) when I first spotted the pair. On my second trip to the hardware

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Heather Cardle

May 28, 2021
1 min

#FrameItFriday (week 22 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 22 season 4) Say "helloooooo" to Lolly (as in Lollipop because of her big old eyeballs) she lives at the barn down the road from us with her mum Lilly, her buddy Shirley the Sheep and a goat with no name. Until the lockdown restrictions are lifted and I can take human family photos etc I have had the barn animals all sign photo releases so that I may take their portraits. First, I must purchase a big bag of carrots and some apples to bribe them to show me

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Heather Cardle

May 21, 2021
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 21 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 21 season 4) I grabbed this shot last week during a lull from the annoying biting insects. See that back porch across the pond? It's all screened in and pretty much "off limits" to biting things except an occasional appearance by some kind of docile hornet type of things. They don't bite, they could care less about us, so I guess they're allowed until the tall man with the electrified tennis racket sweeps the room. What I'm trying to say is that screened

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Heather Cardle

May 14, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 20 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 20 season 4) Rather than tell you about the tick bite, the 2 dead birds we found (one hit our window & one snuck in the basement and died). Or the frustrations of online ordering (what you thought you were getting vs what you got) let's talk about these fences now shall we? So, we're walking along the road and on one side we've got fence 1 and the other side we've got fence 2. My brain starts to sputter into gear, my imagination begins to flicker to life.

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Heather Cardle

Apr 30, 2021
1 min

#FrameItFriday (week 18 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 18 season 4) Sorry I'm late, what did I miss? Holy smokes, this moving stuff is very overrated when it comes to every single aspect from start to finish. I'm not complaining, ok, yes I am. I'm feeling my age and it's making me grumpy lol. I think I need a t-shirt that reads "I'd rather be taking pictures" because I would much rather be doing that than opening bins that say "kitchen stuff" or opening bins and exclaiming "why the hell did I bring THAT?" No

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Heather Cardle

Apr 23, 2021
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 17 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 17 season 4) So, if you've been following me for a bit you know I have a thing about counting, tracking, etc. I don't count everything, just important things like "how many days until we do this?" or "how many days have we done this for?" For some of my friends my habit makes their heads spin lol. I don't count everything, in fact for YEARS I didn't count calories or lbs. So, on that note here's some stats for you (because I know you're DYING to know). 1

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Heather Cardle

Apr 16, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 15 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 16 season 4) Hey y'all, happy Friday! I've been posting quite a few videos lately. I know some of you who follow me are not as mobile as you'd like to be so I hope the little snippets I post make you feel that you're there along with me. I've had a few folks message me about certain locations I've been going to as they can't believe some of our walks are so close to home. They are. Right outside our back door practically. Even if you don't live in Brantfo

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Heather Cardle

Apr 9, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 15 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 15 season 4) Well, we're in lockdown again here in Ontario our search for remote trails close to home is becoming trickier. Luckily for us though, there's a plethora of trails throughout our county. Since being in a holding pattern until we FINALLY move across the province we've been so fortunate to focus on our walking along many cool paths. Working on our fitness has been our top priority and I've piggybacked my beloved Canon 1DX with the 100-400 lens a

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Heather Cardle

Apr 2, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 14 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 14 season 4) Do the days of the week feel like "days" and you no longer experience that "feeling" to that "it's the weekend?" or is it just me? It's our 2nd Easter in lockdown and the only difference between this Easter and last Easter is the fact that I was actually ready for it this year. By ready, I mean I sent a bag of Easter eggs to my son and daughter-in-law via Amazon. They got it 2 days ago and they finished off the "pretty small bag for the money

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Heather Cardle

Mar 26, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 13 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 13, season 4) Another Friday, another blog. I thought I'd surprise you all about me and my walking buddy going to the Canadian Raptor Conservancy but I told you all LAST week I was going there. What the heck will I talk about with you this week? I swear this happens to me every single Friday. Anyhow, "focus" Heather. Well, yesterday, around these parts was absolutely perfect, the temp was bang on, very little wind, sunshine with a dash of haze. A perfect

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Heather Cardle

Mar 19, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 12 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 12, season 4) Saw a Bluebird the other day. Just the one. It could care less about posing for a photo op, it was on it's way immediately following this shot. It's a male. I've read that alot of male birds migrate back before the girls do in order to set establish or re-establish their territories before, you know, they hook up and make the babies. Seems like a legit idea. Spring is what, one day away? That's exciting even if we had a pretty tame winter in

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Heather Cardle

Mar 12, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 11 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (Week 11, season 4) Ok, let's just start with....what IS THIS (in the photo)? For those of you NOT local, this structure is in Paris, Ontario just alongside the Nith River. Enquiring minds need to know (my mind does anyhow). I have to admit this was my very first time along the trails in this place. They're lovely trails, some parts are paved, some are gravel and some are winding, hilly, muddy paths. Plenty of options for all levels of walkers. It was great but

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Heather Cardle

Mar 5, 2021
4 min

#FrameItFriday (week 10 season 4)

Walter Gretzky 1938-2021 #FrameItFriday (week 10 season 4) Today we all mourn the loss of the world's best hockey dad, our Lord Mayor, ambassador of kindness and generosity and a loving father, grandfather, husband. My social media feed is blowing up with tributes to everyone's friend, Walter Gretzky. I'll just mention my experience throughout the years here whilst living in Brantford. I first met Mr. Gretzky at the Christmas Baskets program. We were boxing food up and he was

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Heather Cardle

Feb 26, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 9 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 9 season 4) Another Friday, another weird rambling by me. Isn't this a cool old stove? Have you ever used one before? This old beauty comes with the new place we bought. It holds court in the kitchen and is no longer hooked up. I can think of a few ideas to use it in a photo shoot, can you? In fact, this whole new house and property has awakened the creative section in my brain that has been dormant for years. It's not THAT long now and I sincerely apolog

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Heather Cardle

Feb 19, 2021
1 min

#FrameItFriday (Week 8 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 8 season 4) I almost forgot it's FRIDAY! AGAIN. How's everyone doing? Anything new and exciting going on? Since things have opened up a tad here as far as the whole Covid thing goes we were finally able to use one of our 3 visits to go down to our new place before it becomes ours in 68 more days. It's about a 3.5 hour drive from where we currently reside. Of course since we've been unable to see family since November, we planned our trip to be able to pop

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Heather Cardle

Feb 12, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 7 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 7 season 4) My oh my it's Friday yet again and if it means anything to anyone, we're on the cusp of a long weekend here in Ontario. Does that even mean anything anymore? Long Weekend, hmmm. I have to ask google "what day is today" at least 3 times a week. I'm sure it's not an age thing, it's a lockdown thing. We've been walking a lot of local trails for the past 45 days, mostly they're the rail trails. In spite of the plunging temperatures, if you dress

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Heather Cardle

Feb 5, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 6 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 6 season 4) The wind is blowing, we’ve had a plop of snow dumped on us here in Brantford and my friend sent me this shot. It’s a view from her back deck of her bunkie, soon to be my bunkie. Ok, “our bunkie” but I call first dibs on what or who goes in there. 82 days to go. Today the MacBook Pro that crashed and burned TWO(2)days before the warranty was up, goes “under the knife” for screen replacement or something like that. My attempts to backup my image

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Heather Cardle

Jan 29, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 5 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 5 season 4) Ahhhhhhhhhh so this day is what I would call Avalanche Day. It began at the top of a huge snow covered mountain with an epic view spread before me. Aka “I woke up on the right side of the bed.” Opened my laptop to prepare to post my photo of the day and do my blog and BOOM someone at the top of the mountain farted and thus began the avalanche. The black screen became the call to Apple and the “place 4 fingers on this button, this button and th

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Heather Cardle

Jan 22, 2021
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 4 season 4)

#FrameItFriday (week 4 season 4) Counting. We've been counting here a la Maison (said in my best FordNation accent lol). One counter is decreasing (finally cracked 100), that is the counter that lets my family know how many days until we move. I don't know if they pay attention to it like I do but every single morning when I come down the stairs to the kitchen I lick my finger (I know, gross) wipe the number on the chalkboard off, blow on the chalkboard to dry my goober off a

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