Many people have heard about my love of Halloween, and how my family and I enjoy going all out in decorating our house to celebrate this annual event of handing out all sorts of goodies to the neighbourhood kids. After years of seeing our neighbours taking photographs of our decorations to show to their family and friends, I decided I’d like to do the same by taking you on a visual tour of how we celebrate this wonderful night for childhood memories.

Regardless of its origins, for me Halloween is about creating magic, of celebrating the power of our imagination to dream up all sorts of amazing and bizarre creations. Through the decorations we place all over the front yard and on our house, we work to create this magical wonderland – a scene which through the lens of childhood stirs up that sense of wonderment and joy. Looking toward our house from across the street, there is that unmistakable look of a place that would seem to exist within our imagination, of something you only get to see on those rare occasions like Halloween night. Click here to continue reading »”Photo Essay – A Halloween Night’s Dream”

One of the things I enjoy doing with my kids on those lazy, sunny days of summer is looking for animals and other shapes in the puffy, white clouds that drift on by.  Sometimes we’d find an elephant throwing water up into the air from its trunk, other times we find a dragon breathing out fire from his mouth.  One time we even saw a cat flying a spaceship next to a laughing frog.

Of course, looking for shapes in the clouds is something many of us did when we were kids.  As we got older, though, we “outgrew” this habit in favour of more practical ones.  Admittedly, I only resumed this playful activity thanks to the encouragement of my kids.  But the ease with which I was able to once again see such fanciful imagery in the sky was like riding a bike again; it just came back to me without much effort or thought.  In some ways, I suppose this should hardly be surprising as none of us Click here to continue reading »”Finding Our Creativity In The Clouds”