Last weekend Kim and I met with our photographer and had our "engagement" photos done. Of course if we had been a bit more organized we might have done that closer to our engagement, but it turned out well because we got great evening sun for the shoot.

Tonight for supper, I made Corn and Black Bean Quinoa Salad and damn it was good. I'm definitely going to make more things with quinoa in the future.

There was a huge thunderstorm tonight just after supper, seems like it swept through all of southwestern Ontario. Lots of tornado warnings and such. It was a pretty crazy storm!! Anyway, after it was done I got a couple photos of the rainbow and the sunset the peaked out from behind the clouds. Good times.

Engagement photo, Kim and I with flowers

Engagement photo, Kim and I in front of shed

Tree at sunset

Tree in the streetlight

Corn Black Bean Quinoa salad

Skydome rainbow

Post storm sunset on Cityplace

A super crazy storm came through Toronto tonight with a ton of lightning out over the lake and everywhere. I was able to capture a bunch of really cool photos of it all! Check them out below!

Lightning behind me illuminating the buildings

Lightning off to the right

Lightning off to the left

Lightning behind the buildings

Lightning strike behind the buildings

Distant island lightning strike

HUGE lightning strike on the island

Lightning arcing behind the building

Horizontal lightning behind the building

HUGE horizontal lightning

More distant lightning

Fun lightning in the clouds

More lightning in the clouds

Over the civic holiday weekend Matt and I once again ventured to Ottawa with my mom to join our good friends the Williams' on a canoe trip into the interior of Algonquin Provincial Park. My brother and his friend Matt met us there and also came with us. It was a fantastic trip, but it was over too soon. I've written up a mini journal for the it in my trips section with lots of photos, including a macro shot! So, go check out my 2009 Algonquin Trip journal.