GYST: Get Your Stuff Together
The Design Guy blog is a personal project featuring articles on design, creativity, photography, tech, tips, and life. I add to this journal as the mood takes me, whimsically. Enjoy.
I love to see a new day begin. There is something about it which makes anything possible. So I go out, and see the world awaken. Again and again. This week in Somewhere In Niagara: Another Sunrise. I was fortunate enough to see another sunrise […]
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OK. With cases and hospitalizations rising exponentially in Ontario, the announcement on Friday that increased restrictions and financial penalties would immediately be put into effect effectively kiboshed my plans for world domination giving my local community a much needed morale boost. Time for Plan B. […]
Read more As Ontario endures another week of lockdown, community spirit is on the verge of becoming a victim of COVID-19. Postcards From The Porch is my initiative to beat back the blues and keep spirits high. For the next 2 Saturdays, April 17 and 24, I […]
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I like to drive around taking photos of things of beauty that catch my eye. No plan. I take random lefts and rights and often have no idea where I am going until I get there. That’s the core concept behind Somewhere In Niagara – […]
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Driving Miss Nikki I do like to drag my long-suffering wife with me on my outings when I can. It’s always more fun to share things in real life than as anecdotes when you get home, and we do have fun. A lot. I am […]
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In this episode of Somewhere In Niagara, Nikki and I are back in St. Johns Conservation Area. We like this place. I have a lot of video and images so it seems a shame not to use it. Please note that everything filmed here was […]
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I know we’re into March, so this is a little overdue, but as promised to my wife I put together this annual collection, memories of 2020. Just a few of the things we shared last year, set to music. Memories keep you warm in the […]
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My car is having some work done this week, so I pulled out some film Nikki and I shot during one of our visits to one of our favourite spots, St. John’s Conservation Area. This area, North of Pelham, has several trails to suit all […]
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It’s nice that Spring Forward is here, and the clocks go forward an hour this weekend. But I do have mixed feelings. And not the routine ones that everybody has. I have Spring Forward melancholy. Here’s why. In the winter I enjoy my sunrises. I […]
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This week in Somewhere In Niagara, Nikki and I are exploring the well-known conservation area at Morgans Point. On the shore of Lake Erie south of Wainfleet, this is not a large area with many trails. It’s a small but beautiful piece of the coast, […]
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