Far & Away & Back Again (Part II)

And the second part....there will be more. It seems to be easier that way.

We visited our dear friends, Bill & Isobel Scott soon after we arrived.

This was one of the non-motorway roads on the way to Inverness. Gorgeous.

Big mountain....little car...not sure which.

Panoramic view. I didn't know I was going to be in it until it was too late.

Some of the narrower roads with passing lanes. (Phone booth half way down)

Walking out to a historical monument.

They will sometimes feed the sheep turnips. Kinda looks like they are munching on rocks from a distance, but nope, they are turnips.

Far & Away & Back Again (Part I)

Bert and I make it back safely from the UK. It was General Assembly time in Scotland, and we had a great time. It has become an annual trip for us, and we are very thankful to be have been able to go as many times. It was very much a blessing to spend time with our dear friends there. Thanks to you all, for you generocity and friendship and fellowship!

We did take quite a few pics. Sadly forgot to bring the camera out for several visits, but since there are so many, we will do a couple of post.

The 'must do' airport shot.

Bagels....the perfect airport food fair. Yum!

The flight was perfect. No ash clouds bothered us and we slept most of the way on the overnight flight. This was to prove just how new our little rental car was. Yay, kind fun!

The man with the 5 O'Clock shadow...

We attended the prayer meeting at the Knightswood Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) , in Glasgow. It was great to hear a word of encouragment from Rev. Willie MacLeod.

Afterwards we dropped by the Tinderbox Coffee House off of Byers Road. I put in an aplication to work there when we lived in Glasgow.....but welder must not have ranked that high on coffee barista skills.

Sorry for that one Bert, but I like it!

More of Life

Bert has recently begun posing with the murals here in town. (last post with the scaffolding). Smiths Falls in know for being a 'train town'. We have a Railroad Museum and all. I love hearing the low rumble of the engines as they pass by the end of our street late at night.

The rest of the pics are just some we shot when we were out for an engagement shoot for a couple getting married this summer. Bert likes to check the light and scope out the locations before we get together with the couple.

The cool man himself. Nothing like a coffee on a cold day.

Ok, not much of a post, but I thought I would try to post a bit more these days.

I think that is the last of any new pictures we have. :)

Life As We Know It

The last few weeks have been unseasonably warm here. Almost all of the trees are budding. There are even some people who have started to plant early things in the garden. Just to give you some idea of what is normal, the rule of thumb for gardening is 'last frost May 24th'. So yep, it is beautiful!

So we are getting out for a quick walk every now and then. Bert loves taking his camera along. We don't tend to take many pictures of our life when we are plugging away at our desks. Here is what has resulted.

Bert had a little workshop going on in our living room the other day. As you can see he was pretty proud of his mess.

He put some newspaper down.....the metal shavings didn't seem to get the memo.

We are loving spring. Life is good.

The Things We Do

At the begining of March we headed out to Syracuse to pick some friends up from the airport. But of course who would pass up the chance to goof off a little bit?!? We did a bit of shopping (with boys it is a completely different experience). Bert really need some new cloths. When I mentioned about clothes shopping he said in all seriousness (you could tell he was thinking out loud), "well we should leave a little bit early cause we will need lots of breaks...."(which consist of bookstores, camera stores, and electronic shops.......:) We did have a ton of fun, but unfortunately he came home with no clothes. Funny how that happens.

The dive down. Yes, we have to document it apparently!

We stayed at a cool old little motel downtown. (I love priceline!)

The sign above the elevator...

The sign off the the side...awesome!

I was fascinated with the thing.

Breakfast at the coffee shop in the morning. This was the "my bagel is getting cold" look.

Coffee makes me happy.

Bert isn't as used to be photographed...haha!

We had a ton of fun and that's about all folks.

Happy 6th Anniversary Net and Tim

I wasn't very on the ball with Mom and Dad's 35th Anniversary (which was on Monday:) but we do wish them and Net and Tim many more happy years together!

Visit to the North 'Woods'

Mom, Net and the kiddies came up for a visit the beginning of March. We had a great time as you can see from the pics! Thanks for coming guys!

Headed to the ice skating rink.

The kiddies both loved it. James had a pair of double blade skates and was very brave about it. Ellie just took off with shoes. The both took a few falls, but really loved it.

She like to skate like this too.

She loved looking at my snow globe.

We headed down for some shopping in Syracuse. Net got some awesome baby bedding.

Their favorite toy the whole time was a bug magnifying glass from Dollarama. They both toted that thing around like it was gold. It actually worked a little bit!

I think you can see bits of granola bar on her dress from when she went 'exploring' during what we thought was nap time. She can be very quite sometimes!

This could be Netter about 23 years ago.

The kiddies like to say hi to Uncle Bert in the morning. I'm not sure who like playing peek-a-boo more....

Crowding in for a hug....

Goofing off with Uncle Bert. James was saying he was playing 'climb the pole' (climbing up Bert's legs)....we got a kick out of the pun. :)

Now it is sooo quiet in the house. But the weather has been great. We had to get out for a quick walk.

One of the streets in town.


Our life in all of it's excitement....

I think we are good to go!