iPhriday/iSaturday – A Week in Southern Ontario

Sunset over dormitory accommodation at Unicamp

My daughter asked me to join her at Unicamp of Ontario for a week to help with my grandchildren. So I did. We stayed in a ‘dorm’ and got our food in a communal dining hall. 

On the drive from Kitchener to Honeywood there are dozens of windmills between Elmira and Shelburne.

Afternoon Windmills

Sundown windmills on the way home.

One of the camp activities was caving in the rocks of the Niagara Escarpment. My brave eight-year old grand went through every one.

Charlotte waits her turn to enter ‘The Dungeon’

It was very, very, very hot all week. When it rained on our last afternoon, the six-year old put wet handprints on the dark paint.

Cedar A with Callum handprints

The reason I was asked to help was the youngest grand: a 20-month old, never-stops, already-terrible two. He’s the blonde on the right.

Karma the goat being admired by the toddlers and helpful future babysitters.

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Oh, Christmas Tree

Lots of people leave their Christmas trees up until January 6 of the new year. Around here it’s called Little Christmas, but for the religious it is the feast of Epiphany.  We took ours down on January 6 but before we did I finally took some non-iPhone photos of the tree’s lights. I also tried a selfie, which I posted yesterday.

2015 Christmas Tree

2015 Christmas Tree

2015 Christmas Tree

Taken with a Pentax K3 and a Tamron 90mm Macro lens at various shutter speeds, ISOs, and apertures. You do need a shutter speed of at least 1/125 to capture the bubbles in the bubbling lights.