happy (belated) canada day!

i spent yesterday doing the most wonderful things. mostly things like an afternoon in the sand, near the water, experimenting with my new camera. finally! and a bbq with family & friends, drinking beers on the back deck, warming up on a cold evening around a fire. i can’t imagine more beautiful things!

watching ryan run around the backyard with my neice and nephew – play a raucous game of soccer with a four-year-old boy – i was struck by how handsome and warm and loving he is to everyone – how much he feels like family. some offhand remark about having kids of our own (not yet!) got me thinking of what a great dad he’ll be one day; patient and wonderfully laid-back, the kind who will live to cook breakfast in the morning and take his family camping on long weekends. getting a tad ahead of myself, but it’s refreshing and comfortable to be able to see the future.

ahem.

i spent all evening documenting my family on film and feeling like quite the little shutterbug. there is something to be said for the familiarity of film – photos you can hold in your hand and mount on your walls, something tangible. things are more interesting through the lens of a new-old camera. and family, being home, is like a vacation from my other life and self.