Buskers Festival in Saint John was a Blast!

Larissa is working her a$$ off in Saint John, and we decided to pay her a visit, and try to escape the heat in Fredericton.

It was great, there were awesome acts and the kids had fun on the activities. One was a human hamster wheel…I love my new phone (Motorola Atrix) It has 720p video! Well the mic actually is useless, but I overlayed some royalty free music, and POW!

Big Bug!

The other day Alex calls me over to a spot in the back yard and asks me – what is that?

Holy Cra Moly! I think to myself….it looks like a giant wasp – or hornet, maybe a queen! It is slowly walking through the grass, I mean slowly, so I am not to worried about anyone getting stung. We go and get a little toy bug house, and let it walk right in.

This thing is mostly black, with some yellow legs and some yellow on the head. The body is at least twice the size of any normal wasp or hornet, about 2-3 inches long. Then there is the tail or stinger (don’t know what at this point) which is about 4-5 inches long!

I transferred it to a glass container so I could photograph it (I was in the middle of shooting jewelry so everything was setup anyway)

After a little research we found that it is a Giant ichneumon wasp. Harmless, but in the wasp family – this is a female, and the long tail is an ovipositor – you know for positing ovis.

It is for laying eggs into wood boring larva. We let it go…

- André

More sledding and funny faces!

I realize in seeking to update this page that I have a lack of photos of the family. Well here are some sledding photos from Feb - a great day with tons of snow and a few freinds!

Then, in March - NOTHING HAPPENED! ;)

On to April....a few funny faces thanks to Hope and a wide angle lens...

Oh, and a decent photo of myself - our photo club had a portrait swap event where we could ge on the other side of the camera for a change!

Thanks!
-André

We went Sledding on Jan. 15th!

Wheeeeee!

Diggin out the oldies!

In an effort to clean house, I have been digitizing some VHS tapes (home movies mostly). I made a short clip of some hail that hit Calgary the day Alex was born - July 15, 2004.

Blast from the Past!