Actually, my husband and I finally celebrated our 5 year anniversary by spending a “skiing” weekend at Mont-Tremblant. Well, in all honesty, HE skied while I walked around ALL day and took a few pictures Here are my very favorites. Trust me, it took a LOT to whittle them down to these, I started out with over 250 captures!

Condo/hotel on the mountain side

Apparently a very famous little church, I haven’t looked for it on the official site, but it’s associated with just about any Mont-Tremblant site

Silhouetted

Sunflares

An absolute FAV

One of my favorite areas full of color and “characteristic” architecture

I couldn’t resist! He was standing right in front of a “Santa’s workshop” type of store.

These next ones are from the top of the mountain, and this is with the free lift ticket I was given by tourists going home early from their 3 day stay

The snow is literally glued to the trees! It’s just so beautiful!

Sunflare through icicles

How about snow covered icicles?? They look like alien fingers!

WIDE open aperture!

A view on my way to the look out area

I was running out of time, really, I had 20 minutes left before I HAD to go take the lift back down the mountain to meet-up with my husband ,so I climbed to the lookout through THICK snow with my “walkin’ boots” and I was running up the stairs when I just SAW this beautiful vision, the light was just gorgeous so I ran back down to take several shots, and then did so at all 3 flights of stairs, which is why the panorama through the holes in the stairs changes:

More sunflares!

More trees with the GORGEOUS blue sky! I barely touched these, I adjusted contrast and brightness and nothing else really. Didn’t need to!

Sun flare through a tree

Some boarders taking a break watching other people ski by. A couple of them looked up wondering what the heck I was doing! lol

GORGEOUS view!

Top of Tremblant! That’s where the BIG lift brings you.

Going down the lift, I couldn’t resist, I hit my head on the top of the lift a few times taking some of these. Oops. I also took a few sticking my lens out of one of the small windows. Others, like the first one, I took through the scratched up plex-glass windows. Think it adds charm

Loner lift on a smaller “hill” if the mountain

A Buddha votive holder at the Asian inspired restaurant we ate for supper. (Sort of small, but the food was DELICIOUS!) We had planned on eating at another restaurant but it only opened at 6 and we had to be out of there by 6 if we wanted to take advantage of the Scandinavians baths before our massages

Speaking of which, this is the restaurant we originally wanted to eat at:

The same street I photographed earlier with all the colors and architecture, but from the top and just past sunset

Thanks all folks:) Thanks for looking

I had the IMMENSE pleasure to go photograph the international fireworks competition last night, starts at 10pm and lasts all of a half hour, but WOW, what a half hour! This morning though, my undereye bags have bags of their own But it was SO worth it! I met up (through meet-up groups lol) with Montreal’s Shutterbug Group and met 4-5 other members and had a blast. They we’re each so fun to chat with and I got some new tips and pointers to jazz up my shooting and I hope they each came away with something too I would have loved to photograph the people around me, but we we’re too far for the fireworks to illuminate the people enough, well, for my current lenses anyway, they kept hunting for focus… oh well, still got a lot of amazing shots and would you believe they we’re all handheld?! Well, I won’t post the badly shaky ones… well, maybe one! lol

Old Port Fountain

Camera shake that WORKS

Love the colors

The show you can see when you are ON site

Green burst reflection

Twin hearts

This is what Id call my clearest image of the night

The moon and its reflection on the Saint-Laurence

The Old Port Clock Tower we were shooting from

The line up to get out of the parking lot we walked through, CRAZY!

Thus why I took the Metro to and from

Just a quick blurb about a FANTASTIC trip I made to San Antonio in April. (Yeah I know, catching up ) The best kind of trip too, a MOR trip… now, what the heck is a MOR trip you ask? A Mom’s ONLY Reunion It was JUST the thing we all needed, a bunch of us friends that have been chatting together for over 4 years now. We’ve had 2 past reunions, which included our less than 2 year olds (they fly free ) but this one was KID FREE! Gosh, it felt AWESOME! Every mom should be able to have some time away from her family to reconnect, re-energize and feel like she can tackle her home and kids or go back to her work/home lingo a lot of us know so well!

Here are a few Travel pics I took while there I added a special gallery for trips (not that I’m going to be having a LOT of them, but hopefully a couple more are in my future! )

Sunset on Plane

San Antonio Riverwalk

You cannot visit San Antonio without seeing the Alamo

Flags

This picture doesn’t truly give justice to the sheer amount of people that we’re there, I kid you not!