Fall/Autumn Landscapes

It's that time of year again. Right now, it's technically still summer (we won't hit fall until a few days from now), but the evenings have gotten cooler, even if our daytime temps are still very summer like (today's weather is calling for highs of 83 degrees today, and 81 tomorrow ... that isn't very fall like for Canada!) so to herald in the upcoming autumn, here's a bunch of fall landscapes to decorate your blog posts with.

The photo above is from an area about 15 minutes away from my house. A little village area in Ontario called Hawkestone. It's about halfway between the city of Barrie, and Orillia. A very sought after location for those wanting to escape the city, but not be so far away that it's too far to travel in winter.

The image below is another shot of the shoreline at Hawkestone, but a little further away from the roadway shown in the one above. In fall, the Hawkestone area is gorgeous, and a great place for photographers, because it has areas that look like wilderness, but also areas with waterfront, and areas with quaint houses and farms.

Having a Revival!

I've decided, after a lot of thought to give up my private hosting and move my sites back onto Blogger hosting. Reasons for that will probably be posted up on one of my other blogs, but for now, a short post with some new images ... some rather unique images in fact.

How many of you have flown before? A lot? I don't ... I'm not what you'd call a frequent flyer. In fact, I don't care much for flying at all - it isn't the flight itself, but getting to and through the airport, the security, the customs ... it's all such a pain.

Most of my flights have been to Google conferences in California (one to NYC), and it's a fairly long trip from where I live in central Ontario ... an hour and a half drive to the airport in Toronto, an hour or more to get through customs and security, and 5 hours on a plane ... it's not exactly what I consider a pleasant way to spend a day.

The flights are usually crowded to the max, and if you don't get a window seat when booking, you're often stuck in an area that doesn't allow you to look out the window. For the most part, I've borne the aggravation pretty silently. There is little that complaints would accomplish, other than to get yourself noticed in a way you probably don't want to be noticed.

Most of the trips have had me in a middle or aisle seat, and it seems like no matter how many times I request a window seat, I don't get it. Except once ... on a trip home from California the plane was miraculously empty ... well, not empty, but had a lot of empty seats. A friend and I each ended up with 3 seats to ourselves (at the stewardess' urging), so I was able to snuggle up to window and gawk at the sights as we took off, and flew home.