PHOTOGRAPHY
My wife bought me my first camera about 1982 and I darn near never put it down for many years after. I enjoy taking natural history and scenic shots. People are a bit harder to work with than a sunset or chipmonk. Again, photography is finding a use in computing with the advent of "flatbed scanners" so I can digitize photos for WWW work and DTP.

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View of my beautiful wife gazing downstream at a place we call "the porch", Hazel Creek, 40 minutes from our house. Heaven!

This is the actual "porch", a screened in nirvana right on the creek! The above picture is the dock just the left of the porch.

Lake Katherine in Riding Mountain Park, 3 hours from home. View of my wife gazing at the very calm lake. Bread crumbs on the dock were being eaten by the jays who didn't want to have their picture taken. A very serene time, sigh...

CANOEING
My wife and I love to canoe in our 17' red fiber glass, electric motor powered (an electric motor is NOT cheating), V-stern canoe. Truly a wonderful way to explore and get close to nature. Riding Mountain National Park is one of our favorite places to go.
Being a Pisces (astrologically speaking) I love the water and skin diving. I drive my wife to frustration at times, by my insistence to stop and "check out" every river, stream, ditch we cross on our Sunday motor trips. My fondest memories are spearing fish for lunch in the summers after my university years up north of The Pas, Manitoba.

HOME RENOVATIONS
Owning a home built in 1906 comes with built in challenges and on-going projects. I truly enjoy all the home renovations we've done over the years. I'm not quite as quick to start projects these days, after having gone through the whole house once, but I like to think I do better work now. I find it satisfying to design and create an original, unique "work of art" that I get to live in.