2012YIP - Ice Cream Goodness

This was called a "Caramel and Fudge Delight", or something equally delicious and pretentious. It certainly lived up to its name.

In other news, an ice cream shop opened disturbingly close to our house earlier this year. So far we have been behaving ourselves, and only walking over there about once a week.

The hotter weather later this summer will surely test the strength of our resolve.

I was going to get tricky and desaturate the background, but instead all I did was apply the usual unsharp mask and crop it a smidgen on the left and top.

Photo dump

Doors Open Winnipeg happened this weekend, and we took in a couple of venues. Last week we had been making a fairly impressive list of places we planned to visit, but when the weather turned rather sketchy this weekend we trimmed it down to the two that seemed the most interesting. Our first stop was the Ukrainian-Orthodox Holy Trinity church that is not too far down the road from our house. We drive by it twice a day on our way to and from work, but this has been our first occasion to stop in.

The church is newer than I had thought, but it was still interesting and storied. I imagine most churches have a tale to tell if you can find somebody who knows the history. While the story of the frieze on the front (designed by Leo Mol, built in Europe, then shipped over and assembled in situ) was intriguing, I was more interested in the fact that the church was actually a church built on a church. They built it in stages over the course of decades. The sanctuary pictured below is actually just another layer built on top of the old sanctuary (which is now the basement).

( Here are a bunch more pictures that I either took recently, or have been in my to-post list for some time )