When I was home to my parents’ last time, I was going through some old boxes and found this. The album must be nearly as old as I am. The writing is in my grandma’s own hand, which is fitting because it was her that carried Sinnamon as a maiden name. The passage reads:

The Sinnamons are descendants from the family of St. Amond who were Huguenots (French Protestants) in Europe. In the 16^th and 17^th century [sic] when the Huguenots were persecuted, some of them fled to the northern part of Ireland for refuge. At that time, the St. Amonds were illiterate. Later, when they learned to read and write, the name was written down as SINNAMON

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If photography is “light writing,” few lighting situations are most wonderful than sunset! 0 comments more ...

An easy hike starting across from the road to the Prince of Wales hotel is Bear”s Hump. The view, as noted above, is magnificent!

This image is actually the result of several overlapping images that have been stitched together. By holding the settings constant (focal distance, f-stop, exposure, etc.), the combined image looks like it’s one shot.

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Heading west from Vancouver, just north of the American border, we drove through the beautiful Canadian Rockies. We made it to Osoyoos just as it was getting dark and stopped to watch the lights come on on the opposite shore… 0 comments more ...

Still in Vancouver, I travelled a little further inland and found a beautiful flower garden! I love the richness of colour the violet offers. 0 comments more ...

Float planes are cool and so I went down to the harbour again and found this one coming in :) 0 comments more ...

Next stop from Seattle was Vancouver, BC. Here, while down on the waterfront, we watched the floatplanes come in! 0 comments more ...

As we headed north into Washington, we pulled off the coast to visit friends in Seattle. This is the Seattle skyline from I-5. I’ve always thought of cityscapes are an interesting portrait of a city. 0 comments more ...

Further along the Pacific Coast Highway I came across a lighthouse, just before dusk. Perhaps it comes from my growing up far from the ocean, but I’ve always been fascinated with lighthouses and the lighthouse as a symbol in the way they stand as a sentinel and unmoved, regardless of the storm they brews around them. 0 comments more ...

The Pacific Coast Highway branches away from the edge of the ocean a little, particularly if you take a wrong turn! This is along CA-1, among the forests off the coast of California. But how can a picture capture the scene? It’s like trying to draw a dream… 0 comments more ...