Author Archives: Lorne Anderson
The Mosque
The first mosque I ever visited was in a Toronto building that started its life as a Presbyterian church. I don’t think that usage was predestined. It was the Summer of 1989 and the mosque visit was part of an orientation session being given before we moved to Africa. I think the idea was that, […]
Chocolate
I don’t know where this picture came from or what it is doing on my computer. What I do know is that I couldn’t decide what to post today. After cat pictures I think food pictures are the most common thing shared on the internet. But I don’t understand why anyone would care about any […]
Tulipfest 2016 III
I took about 100 pictures of tulips Sunday night, and reaction has been positive to the ones I posted here, so I am going to the well one last time. I’m not a flower person, but you might be. And some of these look more like a Van Gogh painting than a photograph. Enjoy the […]
Tulipfest 2016 II
As I mentioned yesterday, going to see the tulips at sundown made them look somehow different than last year’s midday visit. I’m not a person known for my colour sense (there’s a medical reason for that) so I’m not sure if describing what I saw as being mostly pastels makes much sense. To me many […]
Tulipfest 2016
Ottawa’s annual Tulip Festival wrapped up Monday. Most years I ignore the event, not being all that enamoured of watching flowers grow (though admittedly it is more interesting than watching paint dry). However, being a dutiful husband, when my wife said “let’s go see the tulips,” I went to see the tulips. And enjoyed myself […]
2003 Cats
In a shameless attempt to drive traffic to this site, and knowing that the internet was invented for sharing cat pictures, today is a cat photo essay. I found these in a file labelled 2003 on my backup drive. given that I am not a big cat fan, I can only assume these were taken […]
Opening Day
On the first day of the baseball season the stadium really is a field of dreams. Everything is potential; the harshness of reality has yet to take hold. Thursday night the Ottawa Champions took the field for the first time in 2016. (Starting the season here before mid-May leaves you at risk for snow. I […]
Niagara Falls
Decided on a photo essay today, from an expedition in the late summer of 2008. Niagara Falls is one of the wonders of the world, or so they say. I’ve been there often enough (it’s about a seven hour drive from my house) that I can’t say I have any sense of wonder – but […]
I wonder…
Looking through some old photos and noticed this one that I took while on vacation in Maine in 2008. This was downtown Portland, right on the waterfront. I have to wonder about whether the owners of the parking space had ever followed through on their threat to the vehicles parked in violation of the rules. […]
Early Arrival
When my children were younger I wrote a weekly column, “Modern Parenting” for The Pembroke Observer newspaper. Being a stay-at-home dad was rare in our small town in 1991; people wanted to hear about my adventures. When I started this blog I promised to republish some of those old pieces, then I got sidetracked. Today […]
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