Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. Sarah Ban Breathnach

My First Stamp

It’s not everyday a boy gets a call from canada post saying they’d like to use one of his photos for a stamp. I had been wanting a motorbike for seven years, having fallen in love with motorbikes as a young speed hungry boy. Every summer for seven years, I had to tell myself, ok ‘not going to happen’ seemingly not been able to afford it each blissful spring. Nope. As I hung up the phone with the canada post representative, the words just seem to fly out of my mouth, ‘ok go get that motorbike’ after all it was June and I had spring fever and an excuse to celebrate or commemorate the accomplishment of having 10 million stamps printed with my photo on it. So I made my way down to the Honda dealership to snoop around to see what they had…ya wow bikes have changed a lot since my last ride which was a 1984 CB400. Bing da bing, bing…wow these new bikes sure were pretty. Despite my monumental accomplishment with the stamp I still had to use some common sense and fiscal responsibility…..but why!!! So I settled on a used Suzuki DR200 endure street legal, dirt bike. An ugly thing, but it was what I needed to get the job done, it was light enough, 278pds, so when i drove it up on the back of my van it was going to structurally kill my van. it tops out at 120 kms an hr (yawn) so I wasn’t going to kill myself at 260km/hr. so I settled on it, and signed the bill of sell. And I was off. Having not been on a bike for 20 some odd years, I gingerly embarked on my way home, only to blow threw a stop sign within my first five kms! Ok. Don’t do that, again. By day three my confidence had grown and I was riding with no hands, arms fully out free as a bird, sorta thing. Yep it was to be a great summer!!

Plains of Abraham

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, (Bataille des Plaines d’Abraham or Première bataille de Québec in French) was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years’ War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States). The battle, which began on 13 September 1759, was fought between the British Army and Navy, and the French Army, on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City, on land that was originally owned by a farmer named Abraham Martin, hence the name of the battle.

The the Canadian mosaic, once again makes it to the Quebec winter Carnaval!

The road to Quebec City is covered in salt.

Canadian Mosaic photographer, Tim Van Horn was busy shooting portraits at Ottawa’s Winterlude today!

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear