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Aug 14, 2020
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 33, season 3)

#FrameItFriday (week 33, season 3) Well, we finally got away. In fact, we still are away and it's been outstanding weather. Road trips have been replaced by early morning paddles. I'm not an early riser but have managed to get up and out on the water a few times before 8am. In the nature world that is a bit late but we still managed to hit the motherland of wildlife on a couple of mornings which was super cool. Yesterday though we went out and saw pretty much nothing but the

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Heather Cardle

Mar 6, 2020
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 10 season 3)

#FrameItFriday (week 10, season 3) Today's tip, don't wait for that perfect time of day when it comes to places such as this one. The photo on the left was taken in December 2019 and the photo on the right was taken just last week (February 2020). Although they've been taken from slightly different angles you can see how much the structure's roof has dropped. I hope it makes it through winter. I won't be able to get back up that way until November of this year, fingers crosse

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Heather Cardle

Feb 28, 2020
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 9, season 3)

What an odd week it has been. Lots of snow where we are and for a few days we weren't going anywhere. Blinding snow storms and bitter cold are no fun to shoot in, so I didn't. Instead I read. Been a while since I've picked up a book with lots of words in it. I inhaled books when I was a kid and was a regular at the bookmobile every Thursday. Yes, bookmobile. An RV with books on shelves, if you've never seen or been in one. I learned one thing, my camera batteries do not like

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Heather Cardle

Nov 22, 2019
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 47 season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 47, season 2) I can't believe how quick this week went now that it's Friday....not sure if I felt the same this past Tuesday but whatever. I've pretty much finished up the barrage of bird shots but I can't promise you that there won't be a few more albums posted. This past week or so I've seen posts and photos of Snowy Owl sightings around the southern Ontario area. They seem legit as they've photographic proof. I was Snowy seeking a few years back and to

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Heather Cardle

Sep 20, 2019
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 38, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 38, season 2) The paint has dried, trust me....I watched it. Sort of. The first 3 days of this week I've sat in the garage of my family home in Scarborough editing photos while Fred the Painter and his crew went to town with their brushes and rollers. Initially I had this lame idea that I was going to sit in some corner of the house with a little chair and table and edit furiously whilst they painted. Ha ha ha ....until they cracked open the oil based pr

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Heather Cardle

Sep 6, 2019
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 36, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 36, season 2) Hey y'all happy Fri-yay! I hope that everyone's first week of school has gone well (here in Ontario it's first week). On the Monday of the last long weekend of the summer holidays we bailed on the city, headed north passing 1,000s of southbound packed cars trailering campers, water toys, etc. The lake has been so quiet you can hear a pin drop but late at night the haunting calls of the loons are a welcome sound over the whining of sirens. It

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Heather Cardle

Aug 2, 2019
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 31, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 31, season 2) This past week was a blur, my brain is cluttered like a hoarder's house. Ask my husband, he'd agree and also lovingly say "honey if you had a single intelligent thought inside your head it would die of loneliness". I don't mind, it's true except for the fact that I could still edit photos and take photos. That's it, nothing more, but thank god at least I could still do that. You know what all that means? Heather. Needs. A. Holiday. It's ha

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Heather Cardle

Jun 14, 2019
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 24, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 24, season 2) OMG what an exciting week it's been for basketball fans! Torontonian, Canadian...whatever....fresh to hop on the bandwagon (that would be me). Shoutout to the Toronto Raptors basketball team and their fans for the NBA Championship win! I'm not a huge sports fan (even though I used to play hockey). I support our local teams but it's usually once I hear they are in the playoffs. TSN is just not my thing and that's ok. Different strokes for dif

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Heather Cardle

May 17, 2019
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 20, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 20, season 2) Yippee-ki-yay it's birding week (or 2) on my page! How's this one for a start, bit risqué but hey, tis the season. For all you birders be it by binoculars, camera or both this is the time of year that is so, so exciting....migration time! Point Pelee in Ontario is THE place for checking off "first time seen" or "lifers". I didn't go there....bit too intense with crowds for me but I did go to Rondeau Provincial Park which is probably an hour

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Heather Cardle

Apr 19, 2019
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 16, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (week 16, season 2) I honestly closely resemble this Osprey, especially today ha ha. No seriously. I do. So, after 40?!!?? years (wow, that's a LONG time ago) I made it back to the zoo. The Metro Toronto Zoo. Last time I was there it was a scorcher of a day and the zoo had no running water. It broke down, whatever. We were just kids, we drank POP from the McDonald's they had there. All I remember about that trip was watching the orangutang swinging from ropes i

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(lucky week 13, season 2)

Heather Cardle

Mar 29, 2019
3 min

#FrameItFriday (lucky week 13, season 2)

#FrameItFriday (lucky week 13, season 3) Yippee kai-yay, we all made it to another Fri-yay! So I'm sorry, not sorry for posting so many house pics the past couple of weeks. I have a multitude of reasons (aka excuses) why I have been doing that....here's a few: 1) It's still been winter off and on and still a bit cold out a b) I don't want to get my waterproof boots muddy iii) I'm lazy D) All of the above I'm excited to tell you about this place in the photo today because I'

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Heather Cardle

Mar 22, 2019
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 12 season 3)

#FrameItFriday (Week 12, Season 3) I don't want to jinx us but it's feeling a bit Springy out (asides from the fact that it technically is) and well this Mama Bear (meaning moi) is slowly coming out of hibernation. Next step is, tossing off those bulky winter coats and I can't wait! It was nice to finally have almost a full day to wander and shoot yesterday. I had to take some shots out of town for a client and I decided, well....since I'm already HERE, I may as well work my

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Heather Cardle

Mar 15, 2019
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 11, season 3)

#FrameItFriday (Week 11, Season 3) Been a hectic week, here's a story I'm recycling from a few years back. Some of you who are new here may not have read it. Sorry it's kind of a sad post but every day can't be all rainbows and butterflies. "We went out to explore more of the lake we are on today (5.5hrs of exploring). We brought our lunch along and decided to eat it in this quiet bay by a Great Blue Heron. We'd been paddling along the shore with a gaggle (as I call them) of

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Heather Cardle

Mar 8, 2019
3 min

#FrameItFriday (week 10, season 3)

#FrameItFriday (week 10, season 3) Well holy my moly a week into March already, hours away from Spring Break (for the kiddies, the educators and possibly the parents lol) and we lose an hour's sleep come this Saturday night. Pretty busy weekend eh? Tonight/late this afternoon I shoot my first wedding of the year and in spite of not being the bride, I've got butterflies in me belly. I must confess I always do prior to events such as this. Once I get the ball rolling though I'l

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Heather Cardle

Feb 1, 2019
2 min

#FrameItFriday (week 5, season 3)

#FrameItFriday (week 5, season 3) In case you hadn't heard or felt it already, it's flipping COLD where I live. Not the kind of weather where you throw on a sweater and all is good. We're talking Arctic grade clothing, headgear and boots. If you plan on staying out for longer than 20 seconds. So, grumbling about it really doesn't do much good, it's Canada, it's winter, suck it up. I suck it up by hibernating the past couple of days which has forced me to do stuff that I have

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