How I Spent My Summer Vacation

A view inside my parents’ new lakefront cottage in Westport, Canada.

The view from the Adirondack chairs in the cottage’s front yard.

A really dramatic sky on the Upper Rideau Lake just before a storm.

Another dramatic sky on the Upper Rideau Lake… this one was a sunset.

Vacation in Poland and Slovakia

I just returned from my 2 week vacation in Poland and Slovakia and have been working on catching up on e-mails, orders, news, my blog reading list, and getting back into the swing of things. In the meantime, I have some photos from my trip to share…

Demänovská Ice Cave in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

Demänovská Cave of Liberty in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

View from atop the High Tatras in Zakopane, Poland

Raft tour along along the Dunajec River between Slovakia and Poland

Driving through a Slovak village

Entrance gate to Auschwitz – Oświęcim, Poland

Auschwitz

Hiking in the Tatra Mountains in Zakopane, Poland

Hiking in the Tatra Mountains in Zakopane, Poland

Hiking in the Tatra Mountains in Zakopane, Poland

View from a castle tower in Poland

Wilanów Palace in Warsaw, Poland

Country Living

I am back from Canada and ready to start working on the custom orders that await me – while I get back to the sewing machine, here are some photos from my trip that I have to share.

Westport, Ontario

Westport, Ontario

Forfar, Ontario

Reenacted living quarters inside an 1810 gristmill in Delta, Ontario

Display inside an 1810 gristmill in Delta, Ontario

Westport, Ontario

Back From Vacation

I have been quiet for awhile because I recently got back from my annual vacation to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, which was amazing and inspiring. Now I just need to get back to working on new primitive dolls again. In the meantime, I have a few pictures of highlights from my trip to share. The photos were taken by my husband and I with our new Canon 30D and new super zoom & wide angle lenses.

A frolicking bison calf (who was having a bit of a snit because Mommy wasn’t ready to wake up just yet that morning to nurse him)

A yearling grizzly bear who was marauding around the Old Faithful Inn area

Part of a bison herd slowly migrating south

The gorgeous Emerald Spring in Norris Geyser Basin

The brilliantly colored Economic Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin

A rare treat: Grand Geyser erupting

Coyote carrying a ground squirrel

An elusive North American Pronghorn in the sagebrush

Hiking trail along the rim of the 800-foot-deep Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Mother black bear with two cubs

The nicest man let us use his 800mm+ lens to take some extreme closeups

I already can’t wait to go back again next year.