nesting time

Dear friends, i hope you are well and that february is being kind to you. My camera is fixed and i hope that i can begin posting regularly, the last few month have been iphone photographs and i am grateful to have been able to capture  what has been going on this winter on the hill with it, but i am glad once again to hold something that requires a little more thinking. I have spent the last few weeks at home, nesting with animals and as they say finding my center.

I am happy though to be going to montreal for a few days to spend with family & friends, we will celebrate christmas and new years on saturday since during the holidays everyone was under the weather. Sunday will be just my immediate family and we will make all our favorite foods and hang out and no doubt reminisce on times past. I have a need for family time, there will also be good coffee drinking and if i am lucky i hope to find a canele or two.

wishing you a wonderful rest of the week, hope to take some photographs to share with you soon.

a bientot,

nadia

Workshop in Sweden

Dear Friends Aran Goyoaga, Angela Rithie and i are teaming up again but this time we are heading to Sweden and we are excited to share this experience with you as you learn, soak in and get inspired by   the lovely backdrop of lake Nyköping in the beautiful country of Sweden.

  registration opens monday, november 12, 2012

UPDATE WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT, thank you.

*photo 1 me
*photo 2 
*photo 3 aran goyoaga
*photo 3 nadia dole ( me)
*photo 4 ''
*photo 5 ''

not from the hill, but all so lovely

i had hoped to leave you with a hill post before i departed for france but time did not allow for that, so instead i write to you from the medieval village of Beynac in Dordogne. it is early morning here, still dark and i can hear the rain from my open window. Days have been filled with work, meeting new people, making new friends and all things french. I have eaten my weight in baguette and figs. the above photographs are  just a quick few as we shot and picnicked in a walnut grove. chickens and geese made me think of the hill and the animals, i am told all is well with them, (thank you sarah).

i hope you are all doing well and that the early autumn is good to you, a bientot! 

our time in Whistler

A few weeks ago, i was lucky to spend a few days back in my beautiful country canada, this time not my home town of montreal but incredible Whistler British Columbia, assisting aran at an ace camp workshop run by "super brave" and talented Angela ritchie who it was a delight to work with. although believe it or not i hardly had a chance to take photographs and when i could i had slight over exposing problem and no battery power on the mountain but overall it was great to look at these images again.

I have to say that i never see myself giving up the hill but if i ever did,  it would be for the mountain peaks out west. The air was perfect and snow capped mountains was the perfect backdrop to a few days of teaching, learning and meeting incredible group of  women that had come from all over the globe to attend the workshop.  I know i have said this before but there is some real incredible talent out there by some equally kind women and the lovely people i met there were no exception. The days were spent shooting food, scenery and each other, whether it was at North Arm farm against Curry mountain, the farmers market at the foot of our hotel in whistler village or perched in knook up high on a mountain or  lake side,  all of it was a feast for the eyes, soul and belly. Nights would be spent dinning at great local restaurants where stories were shared, laughter was heard and friendships were formed.

I had incredible time in whistler and i have to confess that i spent some time wishing k. was there and that we had pitched our tent somewhere in the backcountry but i believe that one day soon i will be back there hopefully taking a few less over exposed photographs and taking in that artic air. upon my return to the hill i felt a little homesick of sorts for the whislter snow capped mountains and the wonderful women i met. lucky for me these moments were relived through the absolutely beautiful photographs and words shared on post by the attendees who really knocked it out the park and aran.

you can find post on the following blogs be sure to scroll through pages for some have shared more than one post on our time.

 melissa from the bounty hunter

 megan from passport and pancakes

 jodi from whats cooking good looking

anna from the colorful living project

mardi from eat live travel write

eva from ms renaissance

aran from canelle & vanille 

sharing time with nikole herriott & friends at sunday suppers

 

a few weeks back i had been invited by aran to attend Nikole Herriott workshop at Sunday Suppers in ny, i was so excited for nikole esthetics and her way of life had been something i admired for so long.
i have never had so many photographs on a post before and i could have kept adding to it that is because the beautiful studio that karen created was perfect, mix that with props and goods by herriott & grace nikole shop well one could not help themselves.

Nikole is everything i had hope for,  that what i found beautiful and simple on her blog and shop would be present at the workshop and  it was. nikole is the real deal, she puts you at ease, makes you laugh and wow's you all at once. I was so happy, it was so refreshing to have someone so passionate about what they do and that their talent is not only in what they create but in how they make you feel while viewing their work. I was lucky to also meet Michael Graydon ( nikole's beau) i have been an admire of his work and to be able to take time to chat and talk about his shooting methods was very enlightening as well.

Nikole along with a wonderful group of attendees baked, iced and styled some of her legendary cakes. then a wonderful lunch was prepared and eaten as stories were shared by everyone. The highlight for me was to actually meet Nikole and feel a kinship ( not just because we are both canadian) but also because we are living a life that is in our very core way beyond trend. also that as the workshop came to an end, Nikole, Karen, Aran and i were able to help prep for the following days  Sunday Supper while exchanging thoughts, laughers and all this is such a beautiful well executed space that karen has so thoughtfully created. that truly has my creative friends from all over the world drooling.

thank you for letting me be a part of it aran! see you in Tuscany Nikole & Micheal! ( rolling my pennies as we speak)

* i will share an instagram post of my stay NY with Aran at a later time, it was so much fun.
* also i just came back from whistler bc and hope to share with you soon.