Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Saturday July 12, 2025 FAFA Soccer

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Saturday July 12, 2025

Happy 53rd Birthday to my baby daughter..... That makes me feel really old....

I was contacted by the French Seniors' organization, FAFA, to again take photos at their annual Senior's Soccer Event. I was pleased to do this on their behalf for free again.

The weather cooperated, even though a tad windy, but everyone had fun, had a few laughs, and enjoyed fellowship and lunch afterwards. I am always amazed that such elderly people can participate and enjoy the sport. Some of the kids and grandkids joined in too.

And one of the organizers happens to be a lady from Cartagena, Colombia who had resided in Quebec and also speaks 3 languages! She may want me to take some graduation photos of her daughter(s) sometime soon...

I had to take a nap part-way through processing the 133 photos , keeping 74....

I hope you enjoy this sample of the pictures, some way out of order... That was the day’s excitement.

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Having fun

This is Patricia from Cartagena

This was on the way home

Fin

Friday, July 11, 2025

Thursday July 10, 2025 Buck Moon

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Thursday July 10, 2025

Yesterday, all I ate all day were the 25 or so wings, nothing else, and I lost weight! Maybe I am onto something here!??

Today, I helped my fellow Elks season ticket holder, Lorraine, cleaning up and re-organising her laptop to enable her to find things... It took 3 hours because I was fighting with the darn Windows 11, which I absolutely hate! She had 3 GMail email addresses with over 5,000 emails in each one..... with hundreds unread.... That took a long while to clean out... Anyway, I was glad to help and happy that I was able to get things accomplished...

Then I whiled away almost all evening getting into a James Patterson and Bill Clinton book, The President's Daughter, which is proving to be a pretty decent read...

That was to kill time until moonrise, shortly after sunset, of the full moon, this one called a Buck Moon by the indigenous because this is the time the young bucks' antlers come out of the velvet stage.

I didn't see the moon at all when moonrise was supposed to happen at 10:43pm. I knew it would be in the SE. Then, around 11:20, all-of-a-sudden, there it was, just above the horizon, far away, but plain as day!

I had been sitting at a picnic table near the Hotel MacDonald, hoping I would have an unrestricted view, and I was rewarded. The pics were shot with the new P1100 on its Moon mode at a 3-second delay and the results are below.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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